page_title: Stordal
section_title: General information
hierarchical_section_title: Stordal / General information
caption_attribution_description: English: Mountain in Norway Norsk bokmål: Fjell i Norge
context_page_description: Stordal is a former municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the Sunnmøre region. The administrative centre of the municipality was the village of Stordal. The historic farm and museum of Ytste Skotet lies along the Storfjorden in the western part of the municipality. Most of the municipality lies on the eastern side of the fjord.
  Stordal had relatively good agricultural land, and the main source of income is livestock. Stordal has also been home to furniture production and continues with the industry today.
  At the time if its dissolution in 2020, the 247-square-kilometre municipality is the 306th largest by area out of the 422 municipalities in Norway. Stordal is the 396th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 972. The municipality's population density is 4 inhabitants per square kilometre and its population has decreased by 0.7% over the last decade.
context_section_description: Stordal was established as a municipality on 1 January 1892 when it was separated from the large municipality of Stranda (to the southwest). The initial population of the municipality was 850. During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee. On 1 January 1965, the three neighboring municipalities of Ørskog, Skodje, and Stordal were merged into one large Ørskog municipality. Prior to the merger, there were 1,052 inhabitants in Stordal. The merger, however, was short-lived, and on 1 January 1977 it was reversed and the three municipalities were once again separated.
  On 1 January 2020, the municipalities of Stordal and Norddal were merged into the new Fjord Municipality.
caption: View of the Stordal landscape
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