page_title: Sunndal
section_title: General information
hierarchical_section_title: Sunndal / General information
caption_attribution_description: Norsk bokmål: NTKs hytte i Giklingdalen med Innerdalstårnet bak. Foto: Tore Røraas / Marianne Gjørv.
context_page_description: Sunndal is a municipality in the Nordmøre region located in the northeast part of Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The administrative center of the municipality is the village of Sunndalsøra. Other villages include Gjøra, Grøa, Hoelsand, Jordalsgrenda, Romfo, Ålvund, Ålvundeidet, and Øksendalsøra. With an area of 1,713 square kilometres, it is the largest municipality in Møre og Romsdal county. The important occupations in Sunndal include industry, public services, retail, and farming.
  The 1,713-square-kilometre municipality is the 47th largest by area out of the 356 municipalities in Norway and it is the largest in Møre og Romsdal county. Sunndal is the 140th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 7,036. The municipality's population density is 4.3 inhabitants per square kilometre and its population has decreased by 3.5% over the previous 10-year period.
context_section_description: The parish of Sunndal was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). In 1854, the northern part of the municipality (population: 1,291) was separated to form the new municipality of Øksendal. This left 2,188 residents in Sunndal. During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee.  On 1 January 1960, the neighboring municipalities of Ålvundeid (population: 513) and Øksendal (population: 497) were merged with Sunndal (population: 5,851) to form a new, larger Sunndal municipality.  Both Ålvundeid and Øksendal were historically part of the municipality before 1854. Then, on 1 January 1965, the Ålvund-Ålvundfjord area of the neighboring Stangvik Municipality (population: 508) was transferred to Sunndal.
caption: View of Giklingdalshytta in Innerdalen
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