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Data from Statistics Norway Image File history File links Bokn_komm. ... Norway is divided into 19 administrative regions, called counties (fylker, singular - fylke, Nynorsk: singular and plural fylke; until 1918 known as singular and plural- amt), and 433 municipalities (kommuner - Nynorsk: kommunar). ... Rogaland is a county in Norway, bordering Hordaland, Telemark, Aust-Agder and Vest-Agder. ... Norway may be divided into a number of traditional districts. ... Haugaland is a traditional district in the south-western part of Norway, consisting of the municipalities of Haugesund, KarmÃ¸y, Sveio, TysvÃ¦r, Bokn, Vindafjord and Etne. ... Norway is divided into 19 administrative regions, called counties (fylker, singular - fylke), and 431 municipalities/communes (kommuner). ... The ISO 3166-2 codes for Norway describe 19 counties (fylke). ... FÃ¸resvik is the administrative centre of Bokn municipality, Norway. ... HÃ¸yre - Norwegian Conservative Party The Conservative Party (norwegian HÃ¸yre, H, meaning right) is a Norwegian party. ... Norwegian is a Germanic language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is an official language. ... Norwegian is a Germanic language spoken in Norway. ... Area is a physical quantity expressing the size of a part of a surface. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Population density by country, 2006 Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. ... This article is about longitude and latitude; see also UTM coordinate system Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (vertically) and longitude (horizontally); large version (pdf) The geographic (earth-mapping) coordinate system expresses every horizontal position on Earth by two of the three coordinates of a spherical coordinate system which...

Coordinates: 59°12′N 5°25′E Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...

Bokn is a municipality in the county of Rogaland, Norway.

Bokn is one of the smaller municipalities of Rogaland, consisting of 3 islands: Ognøy, Austre (eastern) Bokn and Vestre (western) Bokn. The three islands are now linked via bridges to Tysvær on the mainland, and the main coastal highway between Stavanger and Bergen now pass over Bokn, connecting southwards by ferries to Rennesøy. There are specific plans of building an undersea tunnel directly to the mainland north of Stavanger. County Rogaland Landscape Haugaland Municipality NO-1146 Administrative centre Aksdal Mayor (2003) Reidar Pedersen (Ap) Official language form Nynorsk Area - Total - Land - Percentage Ranked 232 425 kmÂ² 399 kmÂ² 0. ... County Rogaland District JÃ¦ren Municipality NO-1103 Administrative centre Stavanger Mayor (2005) Leif Johan Sevland Official language form BokmÃ¥l Area - Total - Land - Percentage Ranked 406 71 kmÂ² 68 kmÂ² 0. ... County Hordaland District Midhordland Municipality NO-1201 Administrative centre Bergen Mayor (2004) Herman Friele (H) Official language form Neutral Area - Total - Land - Percentage Ranked 215 465 kmÂ² 445 kmÂ² 0. ... County Rogaland Landscape Ryfylke Municipality NO-1142 Administrative centre RennesÃ¸y Mayor (2003) Jostein Eiane (KrF) Official language form Nynorsk Area - Total - Land - Percentage Ranked 413 65 kmÂ² 65 kmÂ² 0. ...

Apart from a factory producing various tanks made of glassfiber-reinforced plastic (Bokn Plast), there is no industry on the islands. There are some fish-farms, however. People have traditionally lived off fishing and farming. Nowadays some work in the North Sea oil industry. Tourism is likely to play a bigger part in the future. The composite Rutan VariEze, a home-build light aircraft Glass-reinforced plastic (GRP), is a composite material or fiber-reinforced plastic made of a plastic reinforced by fine fibers made of glass. ... A demonstration aquaculture facility Fish farming is the principal form of aquaculture. ...

Geographically, the islands are rugged with lots of small hills with small lakes in the valleys. The hills are largely covered with heather, but bushes and trees are increasingly competing, especially birch. The highest point is on Vestre Bokn, the 297 m high Boknafjell. Heather may be: In botany, the plant Calluna vulgaris, or, more loosely, various species of the closely related genera Erica and Cassiope, low evergreen shrubs (also called heaths). The term is also used to describe land which is vegetated with these plants; In apparel or textiles, interwoven yarns with a... Species Many species; see text and classification Birch is the name of any tree of the genus Betula, in the family Betulaceae, closely related to the beech/oak family, Fagaceae. ...

The climate on Bokn is relatively tropical and has a huge volcano called "The Skut".

Municipalities of Rogaland

onmouseover="pv(event, 35)" onmouseout="unpv(35)" style="">Bjerkreim | Bokn | Eigersund | Finnøy | Forsand | Gjesdal | Haugesund | Hjelmeland | Hå | Karmøy | Klepp | Kvitsøy | Lund | Randaberg | Rennesøy | Sandnes | Sauda | Sokndal | Sola | Stavanger | Strand | Suldal | Time | Tysvær | Utsira | Vindafjord Norway is divided into 19 administrative regions, called counties (fylker, singular - fylke), and 431 municipalities/communes (kommuner). ... Rogaland is a county in Norway, bordering Hordaland, Telemark, Aust-Agder and Vest-Agder. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... County Rogaland District Dalane Municipality NO-1114 Administrative centre VikesÃ¥ Mayor (2005) AsbjÃ¸rn Ramsli (Sp) Official language form Neutral, but the schools and churches use Nynorsk Area - Total - Land - Percentage Ranked 170 650 kmÂ² 577 kmÂ² 0. ... Eigersund is a municipality in the county of Rogaland, Norway. ... County Rogaland Landscape Ryfylke Municipality NO-1141 Administrative centre FinnÃ¸y Mayor (2003) Jorunn Strand VestbÃ¸ (Sp) Official language form Nynorsk Area - Total - Land - Percentage Ranked 382 104 kmÂ² 103 kmÂ² 0. ... County Rogaland Landscape Ryfylke Municipality NO-1129 Administrative centre Forsand Mayor (2003) Ingeborg SÃ¸yland (Sp) Official language form Nynorsk Area - Total - Land - Percentage Ranked 139 780 kmÂ² 702 kmÂ² 0. ... County Rogaland Landscape Municipality NO-1122 Administrative centre Ã…lgÃ¥rd Mayor (2003) Karl Edvard Aksnes (KrF) Official language form Neutral Area - Total - Land - Percentage Ranked 179 618 kmÂ² 558 kmÂ² 0. ... County Rogaland District Haugaland Municipality NO-1106 Administrative centre Haugesund Mayor (2005) Petter Steen. ... County Rogaland District Ryfylke Municipality NO-1133 Administrative centre Hjelmeland Mayor (2003) Terje Thornquist (KrF) Official language form Nynorsk Area - Total - Land - Percentage Ranked 94 1,089 kmÂ² 975 kmÂ² 0. ... County Rogaland Landscape JÃ¦ren Municipality NO-1119 Administrative centre Varhaug Mayor (2004) Terje MjÃ¥tveit (NÃ¦rbÃ¸lista) Official language form Neutral Area - Total - Land - Percentage Ranked 297 259 kmÂ² 249 kmÂ² 0. ... County Rogaland Landscape Haugaland Municipality NO-1149 Administrative centre Kopervik Mayor (2004) Kjell Arvid Svendsen (KrF) Official language form Neutral Area - Total - Land - Percentage Ranked 313 229 kmÂ² 219 kmÂ² 0. ... County Rogaland Landscape JÃ¦ren Municipality NO-1120 Administrative centre Kleppe Mayor (2004) Elfin Lea (H) Official language form Nynorsk Area - Total - Land - Percentage Ranked 377 114 kmÂ² 102 kmÂ² 0. ... County Rogaland Landscape Ryfylke Municipality NO-1144 Administrative centre YdstebÃ¸havn Mayor (2004) Ole Olsen (KrF) Official language form Neutral Area - Total - Land - Percentage Ranked 432 6 kmÂ² 6 kmÂ² 0. ... The municipality Lund in the county of Rogaland, Norway, has 3,130 inhabitants as of January 1, 2002. ... County Rogaland District JÃ¦ren Municipality NO-1127 Administrative centre Randaberg Mayor (2004) Tom Tvedt (Ap) Official language form Neutral Area - Total - Land - Percentage Ranked 425 25 kmÂ² 24 kmÂ² 0. ... County Rogaland Landscape Ryfylke Municipality NO-1142 Administrative centre RennesÃ¸y Mayor (2003) Jostein Eiane (KrF) Official language form Nynorsk Area - Total - Land - Percentage Ranked 413 65 kmÂ² 65 kmÂ² 0. ... The bus station Ruten County Rogaland District JÃ¦ren Municipality NO-1102 Administrative centre Sandnes Mayor (1994) Jostein Rovik(H) Official language form Norwegian Area - Total - Land - Percentage Ranked 273 302. ... County Rogaland Landscape Ryfylke Municipality NO-1135 Administrative centre Sauda Mayor (2003) Laura Seltveit (Ap) Official language form Nynorsk Area - Total - Land - Percentage Ranked 195 546 kmÂ² 509 kmÂ² 0. ... County Rogaland Landscape Dalane Municipality NO-1111 Administrative centre Hauge i Dalene Mayor (2005) Gudmund Holmen (Ap) Official language form Neutral Area - Total - Land - Percentage Ranked 279 295 kmÂ² 267 kmÂ² 0. ... County Rogaland District JÃ¦ren Municipality NO-1124 Administrative centre Sola Mayor (2005) HÃ¥kon Rege (H) Official language form {{{language}}} Area - Total - Land - Percentage Ranked 408 70 kmÂ² 69 kmÂ² 0. ... County Rogaland District JÃ¦ren Municipality NO-1103 Administrative centre Stavanger Mayor (2005) Leif Johan Sevland Official language form BokmÃ¥l Area - Total - Land - Percentage Ranked 406 71 kmÂ² 68 kmÂ² 0. ... County Rogaland Landscape Ryfylke Municipality NO-1130 Administrative centre JÃ¸rpeland Mayor (2003) Odd William BÃ¸e (Ap) Official language form Neutral Area - Total - Land - Percentage Ranked 321 218 kmÂ² 195 kmÂ² 0. ... The municipality Suldal in the county of Rogaland, Norway, has 3,984 inhabitants as of January 1, 2002. ... Time is a municipality in the county of Rogaland, Norway. ... County Rogaland Landscape Haugaland Municipality NO-1146 Administrative centre Aksdal Mayor (2003) Reidar Pedersen (Ap) Official language form Nynorsk Area - Total - Land - Percentage Ranked 232 425 kmÂ² 399 kmÂ² 0. ... County Rogaland Landscape Municipality NO-1151 Administrative centre Utsira Mayor (2005) Geir Helge Rasmussen (Bygdalista for Utsira) Official language form Neutral Area - Total - Land - Percentage Ranked 433 6 kmÂ² 6 kmÂ² 0. ... The municipality Vindafjord in the county of Rogaland, Norway, has 4,827 inhabitants as of January 1, 2002. ...

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Bokn in Norway (426 words)
	Bokn township is situated between Karmøy and Tysvær, and is most conveniently located now, as the new coastal highway is open.
	Bokn Rural Museum, Karmsund Rural Museum, Cottage at Laupland, The Restored Stone Mill, Klepp Bunkers, The Singing Stone, Burial Mounds, Kleivo Open Farm, Scenic view point at Boknafjellet.
	Bokn also has several lakes that are good for fishing and the sea around Bokn is also rich in fish.

Bokn (186 words)
	The municipality Bokn in the county of Rogaland, Norway, has 765 inhabitants as of January 1, 2002.
	Bokn is one of the smaller municipalities of Rogaland, consisting of 3 islands: Ognøy, Austre (eastern) Bokn and Vestre (western) Bokn.
	The climate on Bokn is relatively mild and humid.

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