Ørland

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Ørland kommune

County	Sør-Trøndelag
District
Municipality
Administrative centre	Brekstad
Mayor (2003)	Hallgeir Grøntvedt (Sp)
Official language form	Bokmål
Area  - Total  - Land  - Percentage	74 Square kilometre>km² 73 km² 0.02 %
Population  - Total (as of 2004>2004)  - Percentage  - Change (10 years)  - Density	Ranked 189 5,169 0.11 % 4.5 % 70/km²
Coordinates
[www.orland.kommune.no] [Data from Statistics Norway]

Coordinates: Ørland is a municipality in the county of Sør-Trøndelag, Norway. Major occupations are Ørland Main Air Station (of the Royal Norwegian Air Force), agriculture, public service, and commerce. Large industries are the Tine white cheese dairy and the Mascot Høie bedclothes factory. Brekstad, Uthaug and Opphaug are the largest villages in Ørland.

Major attractions are the Ramsar Convention Bird Protection areas, the coastal areas themselves, the Manor of Austrått, dated 1656 and with a known history from around 1000 AD, and the single, large Sessile oak (the northernmost in the world, known as Austråtteika) in the nearby forest ([Austråttlunden]).

The mouth of Trondheimsfjorden with the Ørland peninsula to the left

Uthaug habour and village and the north coast of Ørland

Municipalities of Sør-Trøndelag
Agdenes | Bjugn | Frøya | Hemne | Hitra | Holtålen | Klæbu | Malvik | Meldal | Melhus | Midtre Gauldal | Oppdal | Orkdal | Osen | Rennebu | Rissa | Roan | Røros | Selbu | Skaun | Snillfjord | Trondheim | Tydal | Ørland | Åfjord

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