page_title: Aure, Norway
section_title: General information
hierarchical_section_title: Aure, Norway / General information
caption_attribution_description: Norsk nynorsk: Foldfjorden i Aure på Nordmøre
context_page_description: Aure is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the region of Nordmøre. The administrative centre is the village of Aure. Other villages in Aure include Gullstein, Stemshaug, Todalen, Tjeldbergodden, Arasvika, and Tømmervåg. Aure has one of the largest wooden churches in Norway, Aure Church.
  The 641-square-kilometre municipality is the 179th largest by area out of the 356 municipalities in Norway. Aure is the 216th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 3,507. The municipality's population density is 5.6 inhabitants per square kilometre and its population has increased by 0.1% over the previous 10-year period.
context_section_description: The municipality was established on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). On 1 January 1894, the southern district of Aure (population: 942) was separated to form the new municipality of Valsøyfjord.  Then on 1 July 1914, the northeastern district of Aure (population: 851) was separated to form the new municipality of Stemshaug.
  During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee. On 1 January 1965, Stemshaug Municipality (population: 877), the part of Valsøyfjord Municipality on the island of Ertvågsøya (population: 141), and the part of Tustna Municipality on Ertvågsøya (population: 85) were all merged into Aure.  On 1 January 1976, the district of Aure located south of the Vinjefjorden (population: 158) was merged into the neighboring Halsa Municipality.  On 1 January 2006, Tustna Municipality was merged into Aure.
caption: View of the Foldfjord
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