Sykkylven

Sykkylven is a municipality in More og Romsdal county, Norway. It is a part of the Sunnmore location. The administrative centre is the village of Aure. Other villages within the municipality consist of Ikornnes, Straumgjerde, and Tusvik. The 338-square-kilometre municipality is the 261st largest by using place out of the 422 municipalities in Norway. Sykkylven is the 141st most populous municipality in Norway with a populace of seven,695. The municipality's populace density is 23.4 inhabitants consistent with square kilometre and its populace has improved with the aid of 3.1% during the last decade. The municipality of Sykkylven become mounted on 1 August 1883 when it became separated from Orskog Municipality. The initial population was 2,029.

On 1 June 1955, the Sovik-Ramstad location of Orskog Municipality on the southern facet of the Storfjorden become transferred to Sykkylven Municipality. The municipality is known as after the Sykkylvsfjorden. The first detail is sIk which means that "small lake" or "inlet". The last element is likewise found in the names Sunnylven and Vanylven and the which means might be "fjord". The call become written SOkelven before 1889. From 1889 until 1917, it turned into spelled Sokkelven, and then due to the fact that 1918 it has been written Sykkylven.