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is a municipality in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Sogn. The administrative center is the village of Høyanger, which has 2152 inhabitants (2012). Other villages in Høyanger municipality include Austreim, Bjordal, Kyrkjebø, Lavik, Ortnevik, and Vadheim. Høyanger is known for having one of the first industrial towns in Norway to use its steep mountains surrounding the town giving excellent conditions for producing hydroelectricity needed for electrolysis. The main product being produced in the village of Høyanger was aluminium. ==General information== The municipality of Høyanger was created on 1 January 1964 when the municipalities of Kyrkjebø and Lavik were merged. ''Ladvig'' (later spelled ''Lavik'') was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). The municipality was created to be identical to the Ladvig parish ''(prestegjeld)''. In 1858, the eastern district of Klævold (population: 1,645) was separated from Ladvig to constitute a municipality of its own. This left Ladvig with a population of 2,042. (The name Klævold was changed to Kirkebø on 1 July 1890, and then later changed to Kyrkjebø in 1917). In 1861, Lavik (population: 926) was merged with Brekke municipality (population: 898), located across the Sognefjorden, to form the new municipality of Lavik og Brekke. In 1862 the sub-parish ''(sokn)'' of Bø in the western part of the municipality was removed from Lavik og Brekke and merged with the Øn and Hyllestad sub-parishes ''(sokn)'' from Askvoll Municipality to form a new municipality which was named Hyllestad. On 1 January 1875, a part of Klævold with 90 inhabitants was moved to Lavik og Brekke. On 1 January 1905, the municipality was split into two separate municipalities (again): Lavik (population: 1,182) and Brekke (population: 982). Then on 1 January 1964, a new municipality named Høyanger was created. It consisted of the former municipalities of Lavik (population: 894) and Kyrkjebø (population: 4,742) along with the Nybø and Nygjerdet farms in Vik. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Høyanger」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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