Vestby

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Vestby kommune

County

Akershus

District

Follo

Municipality

[[ISO 3166-2:NO>NO-0211]]

Administrative centre

Vestby

Mayor (2003)

Tom Anders Ludvigsen (Ap)

Official language form

Bokmål

Area
- Total
- Land
- Percentage

134 Square kilometre>km²
134 km²
0.04 %

Population
- Total (as of 2006>2006)
- Percentage
- Change (10 years)
- Density

Ranked 84
13 159
0.28 %
13.9 %
96/km²

Coordinates

[www.vestby.kommune.no]
[Data from Statistics Norway]

Coordinates: Vestby is a municipality in the county of Akershus, Norway. Main villages are Vestby, Pepperstad Skog, Hølen, Hvitsten, Garder, and Son. Son was, from the Renaissance until the 1700s, an important harbour. On some Dutch maps from that time, the Oslofjord is called Zoon Water.

Archaeological research in Hølen has confirmed that the area has been populated since about 2400 BC. The municipality and town of Vestby are both named after the most important farm in the area.

Many Norwegian emigrants went to America during the 1840s and later settled in the area of the present city of Westby, Wisconsin (named after general store owner and civil war Union soldier Ole T. Westby); a city which still has a mostly Norwegian-American population.

Famous residents

Erik Bodom, 1829-1879, painter
Ola Abrahamsson, (1883-1980), painter
Johan Herman Wessel, 1742-1785, poet

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