page_title: Bygland
section_title: General information
hierarchical_section_title: Bygland / General information
caption_attribution_description: English: Image from the Ose township surroundings of Bygland municipality. In the Setesdalen valley, Aust-Agder county, Norway.
context_page_description: Bygland is a municipality in Agder county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Setesdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Bygland. Other villages in the municipality include Åraksbø, Austad, Byglandsfjord, Grendi, Langeid, Lauvdal, Litveit, Longerak, Moi, Ose, Sandnes, Skåmedal, and Tveit. The Norwegian National Road 9 runs through the municipality, following the river Otra where most of the population of Bygland lives.
  The 1,312-square-kilometre municipality is the 70th largest by area out of the 422 municipalities in Norway. Bygland is the 380th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 1,200. The municipality's population density is 1 inhabitant per square kilometre and its population has decreased by 5.7% over the last decade.
context_section_description: The parish of Bygland was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt).  Since that time, the municipal boundaries have not changed.
caption: View of the Reiårsfossen waterfall
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