page_title: Bykle
section_title: General information
hierarchical_section_title: Bykle / General information
caption_attribution_description: English: Image from the Hovden ski resort settlement in upper Bykle municipality, upper Setesdal valley, Aust-Agder county (Norway)
context_page_description: Bykle 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 Bykle. Other villages in Bykle municipality include Berdalen, Bjåen, Breive, Hoslemo, Hovden, and Nordbygdi. Bykle was established as a municipality on 1 January 1902 when it was separated from the municipality of Valle.
  The 1,467-square-kilometre municipality is the 55th largest by area out of the 422 municipalities in Norway. Bykle is the 400th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 952. The municipality's population density is 0.8 inhabitants per square kilometre and its population has increased by 5.5% over the last decade.
context_section_description: The municipality of Bykle was created when it was separated from the older municipality of Valle on 1 January 1902 after a dispute over the costs of road building (Bykle was the bigger area, while Valle had more people and more money).  Initially, Bykle had a population of 476 residents in the new municipality.  The boundaries of the municipality have not changed since that time.
caption: View of the village of Hovden in winter
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