Møre og Romsdal
Møre og Romsdal is a county in Norway, bordering Sør-Trøndelag, Oppland and Sogn og Fjordane. In 2002 there were 243,855 inhabitants, which is 5.3% of the total population of Norway. The county's area is 15,104 km². The county administration is located in in Molde.
The county consists of three districts: Nordmøre, Romsdal and Sunnmøre (listed north to south).
Municipalities
District code: N = Nordmøre, R = Romsdal, S = Sunnmøre
- R Aukra
- N Aure
- N Averøy
- N Eide
- N Frei (location of 955 AD Viking battle Battle of Rastarkalv, between Haakon the Good and the sons of Erik Bloodaxe)
- R Fræna
- S Giske
- N Gjemnes
- N Halsa (voluntary retirement home and final resting place of Keiko the whale)
- S Haram
- S Hareid
- S Herøy
- N Kristiansund (district capital)
- R Midsund
- R Molde (district and county capital)
- R Nesset (birthplace of Nobel winning author Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson)
- S Norddal
- R Rauma (with center Åndalsnes, terminus of county's only railroad, Raumabanen, connected to Dovrebanen at Dombås in Oppland)
- N Rindal
- S Sande
- R Sandøy
- S Skodje
- N Smøla (home of the Kulisteinen from 1034 AD, the rune stone with the first ever mention of the country's name "Norway")
- S Stordal
- S Stranda
- S Sula
- N Sunndal
- N Surnadal
- S Sykkylven
- N Tingvoll
- N Tustna
- S Ulstein
- S Vanylven
- S Vestnes
- S Volda
- S Ørskog
- S Ørsta
- S Ålesund (district capital)