Talk:List of municipalities in Hordaland, Norway

Odda

Where is Odda? --Dnikitin (talk) 17:55, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

There will be changes soon

For a couple of years, municipalities (kommuner) in Norway have been urged to combine to create fewer and larger units. The work is coming to an end. It is too early to add details to this article now. However, the newspaper Bergens Tidende has today provided information about how Hordaland likely will look. I'm translating/excerpting it here.

• Lindås, Meland and Radøy will become Nordhordland kommune with a population of almost 30000.
• Fjell, Sund and Øygarden will become Nye Øygarden with a population of almost 37000. (Nye means new.)
• Os and Fusa will become Bjørnefjorden kommune. (No population figure is mentioned.)
• Voss and Granvin will become Nye Voss with a population of more than 15000.
• Odda, Ullensvang and Jondal are expected to decide next week to become Nye Ullensvang. (No population figure is mentioned.)

After much discussion, it appears that the areas east and south of Bergen will not make changes at this time. This is disappointing to Governor Lars Sponheim but he will not recommend his own preferences (also listed in the newspaper article) to Stortinget as some other governors will be doing. Stortinget makes the final decisions.

--Hordaland (talk) 12:57, 30 September 2016 (UTC)