page_title: Lyngdal
section_title: General information
hierarchical_section_title: Lyngdal / General information
caption_attribution_description: Austad_kirke This is a photo of a monument in Norway, number: 83820 in the Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage database.
context_page_description: Lyngdal is a municipality in Agder county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Lister. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Alleen. Some of the main villages in Lyngdal include Austad, Fleseland, Hæåk, Korshamn, Kvås, Skomrak, and Svenevik.
  The municipal economy centers around wood processing, agriculture, and commerce. Tourism is also central to the community, with the beaches along the Lyngdalsfjorden and Rosfjorden being popular resorts during the summer.
  The 391-square-kilometre municipality is the 241st largest by area out of the 422 municipalities in Norway. Lyngdal is the 129th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 8,588. The municipality's population density is 23.2 inhabitants per square kilometre and its population has increased by 16.6% over the last decade.
context_section_description: The parish of Aa was established as the municipality of Lyngdal on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). On 1 January 1909, the municipality was split into three: Austad in the south (population: 1,263), Kvås in the north (population: 736) and Lyngdal in the central area (population: 2,698). During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee. On 1 January 1964, the municipalities of Austad (population: 608), Kvås (population: 493), Lyngdal (population: 2,916) as well as the Gitlevåg area (population: 103) in Spangereid municipality, west of Lenesfjorden, were all merged to form one large municipality of Lyngdal. On 1 January 1971, the Ytre Skarstein and Indre Skarstein areas of Lyngdal (population: 21) was transferred to the neighboring municipality of Farsund. On 1 January 2001, the municipality of Lyngdal declared that the municipal centre of Alleen would be a town called Lyngdal.
  On 1 January 2020, the neighboring municipalities of Audnedal and Lyngdal will be merged into a new, larger municipality called Lyngdal.
caption: Austad Church
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