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 (site of Norway's best-known shipwreck and rescue operation of the 1900s, of cargo vessel Rokta April 4, 1938)
- N Aure (county's biggest wooden church; Liquid natural gas (LNG) pipeline from offshore gas field, w/refinery, methanol plant)
- N Averøy (site of district's largest grotto, the Bremsnes cave, with traces of 10,000 yr old settlements of the Fosna culture)
- N Eide (traditional and modern limestone (marble) quarries and related crafts industry; the Atlanterhavsvegen coastal road)
- N Frei (location of 955 AD Viking battle Battle of Rastarkalv, between Haakon the Good and the sons of Erik Bloodaxe)
- R Fræna (70 m deep limestone grotto Trollkirka, lit. "Troll's Church"; marble industry; Norway's only car factory, Moxy Trucks)
- S Giske
- N Gjemnes
- N Halsa (traditional wooden boat building; Hollywood whale Keiko's voluntary retirement home and final resting place)
- S Haram
- S Hareid
- S Herøy
- N Kristiansund (district capital, the county's oil industry capital, known for its export of cod for bacalao to Spain and Portugal)
- R Midsund
- R Molde (district capital and county administrative capital, host of the annual Molde International Jazz Festival since 1961)
- R Nesset (childhood home of 1903 Nobel prize winning author and playwright Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson)
- S Norddal
- R Rauma (with Åndalsnes, terminus of county's only railroad, Raumabanen, connected to Dovrebanen at Dombås, Oppland)
- N Rindal (traditionally known for very snowy winters and lots of cross-country skiing, former home of several ski factories)
- S Sande
- R Sandøy (county's smallest-area municipality; 871 isles, 5 inhabited; known for its Ona lighthouse of 1867, and local pottery)
- S Skodje
- N Smøla (home of the Kulisteinen from 1034 AD, the rune stone with the first known mention of the country's name "Norway")
- S Stordal
- S Stranda
- S Sula
- N Sunndal (county's largest-area municipality, deep U-shape valley, location of Europe's soon-to-be-largest aluminium works)
- N Surnadal (location of Surna, one of the country's richest and most popular salmon rivers, a European scale tourist attraction)
- S Sykkylven
- N Tingvoll (medieval stone church from ca 1180 AD; 4000–5000 yr old artistic rock carvings; self-declared "ecology municipality")
- N Tustna (location of the 976 AD Battle of Solskjel, between King Harald Fairhair and the northwestern minor kings)
- S Ulstein
- S Vanylven
- S Vestnes
- S Volda
- S Ørskog
- S Ørsta
- S Ålesund (district capital, known for its many Jugendstil buildings partly sponsored by German Emperor William II from 1904 on)