Vest-Agder

coat of arms	map
Basic data
Country :	Norway
Administrative center :	Kristiansand
Area :	7,276.52 km²
Residents :	187,589 (January 1, 2019)
Population density :	25 inhabitants / km²
Municipalities :	15th
ISO 3166-2	NO-10
Fylkesstein :	Farsundite
politics
Fylkesordfører :	Terje Damman
Fylkesmann :	Stein A. Ytterdahl

Vest-Agder (German "West Agder") was the southernmost province ( Fylke ) in Norway that the provinces Rogaland and Aust-Agder ( East-Agder excluded) and part of the country Sørlandet belonged. On January 1, 2019, 187,589 inhabitants inhabited the province. The total area was 7,276  km² (land area 6,679 km²). The administrative seat was Kristiansand . Vest-Agder was the western part of the historical Agder Province . The Agder at that time roughly corresponds to the current Fylke Agder.

Before the reform of 1919, the province was called Lister og Mandals amt and was divided into the two eponymous bailiots.

On January 1, 2020, Vest-Agder merged with Aust-Agder to form the new Fylke Agder. The basis for the merger was a resolution of the Storting on June 8, 2017, which provided for a reduction to eleven areas as part of a regional reform .

Lister (formerly Farsunds Avis ) , the smallest daily newspaper in Norway , was published in Vest-Agder .

coat of arms

Description of the coat of arms : In green a golden torn oak with six branches and three oak leaves on each of them.

Municipalities

Vest-Agder was divided into 15 municipalities:

Municipality number Surname Residents January 1, 2019 Area in km² 1001 Kristiansand 92,282 276.51 1002 Mandal 15,659 222.56 1003 Farsund 9,695 262.53 1004 Flekkefjord 9,066 543.52 1014 Vennesla 14,630 384.47 1017 Songdalen 6.706 215.95 1018 Søgne 11,403 151.26 1021 Marnardal 2,297 395.02 1026 Åseral 939 887.52 1027 Audnedal 1,780 251.45 1029 Lindesnes 4,953 316.03 1032 Lyngdal 8,609 391.13 1034 Hægebostad 1,683 461.33 1037 Kvinesdal 6,048 962.42 1046 Sirdal 1,839 1,554.82 Total Vest-Agder 187,589 7,276.52

Map of the municipalities of Aust-Agder

religion

Vest-Agder was also called the " buckle on the Norwegian Bible belt ". The proportion of churchgoers who attended church services more than six times a year was 33%, twice as high as the national average.

The Christian People's Party achieved its best results on Sørlandet . In the 2009 Storting election she received over 30 percent in the municipalities of Hægebostad and Audnedal . Many practicing Christians lived in these places, both members of the Lutheran national church and supporters of independent congregations such as the Pentecostal movement . The deaconess Elisabeth Fedde may be mentioned as an example of an important Christian figure who was born in Vest-Agder .

The only Catholic parish with its seat in the province of Vest-Agder was St. Ansgar ( Kristiansand ). Her parish included the entire province except for the municipality of Sirdal , which was assigned to the parish of St. Svithun ( Stavanger ). At parishes belonged to the diocese of Oslo .

Web links

• Vest-Agder on snl.no in the store norske leksikon

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nye fylker on www.regjeringen.no, accessed on January 4, 2020
2. ↑ Forestillingen om bibelbeltet på Sørlandet blir confirmed Fædrelandsvennen, March 9, 2005, accessed on November 4, 2018.
3. ↑ Björn Grimen: Bibelbeltet styrer fortsatt velgere NRK Nyheter, October 15, 2009, accessed on November 4, 2018.
4. ↑ Liv Ekeberg: En av tre tror ikke på Gud Agderposten, December 6, 2013, accessed on November 4, 2018.
5. ↑ 2009 election results by municipalities ( memento of the original from January 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Norway Statistics 

Coordinates: 58 ° 20 ′ 0 ″  N , 7 ° 35 ′ 0 ″  E