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Encyclopedia > Lillesand
Lillesand kommune
image:Lillesand kommunevaapen.gif
County Aust-Agder
Landscape Sørlandet
Municipality NO-0926
Administrative centre Lillesand
Mayor (2004) Arne Thomassen
Area 185 km²
Population
 - Total (2004)
 - Density

8,952
48.39/km²
www.lillesand.kommune.no

Data from Statistics Norway (http://www.ssb.no/english/municipalities/0926)

Lillesand is a town and municipality in the county of Aust-Agder, Norway. The town belongs to the geographical region of Sørlandet.


Kalundborg, Nynäshamn, Eyrabakki and Kimito are all towns twinned with Lillesand.


External links

  • Lillesand.com (Tourist information) (http://www.lillesand.com/)
  • Chart of Lillesand (http://kart.kristiansand.kommune.no/GISLINEWebInnsyn/Map.aspx?knr=0926&xmin=8000&xmax=40000&ymin=-5000&ymax=-10000)
  • Statistical information about Lillesand - in Norwegian (http://www.ssb.no/kommuner/faktaark3.cgi?region=0926)
  • Lillesand kommune - in Norwegian (http://www.lillesand.kommune.no/)


Aust-Agder

Arendal | Birkenes | Bygland | Bykle | Evje og Hornnes | Froland | Gjerstad | Grimstad | Iveland | Lillesand | Risør | Tvedestrand | Valle | Vegårshei | Åmli

Municipalities of Norway | Norway

  Results from FactBites:
 
Lillesand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (570 words)
Lillesand is a town and municipality in the county of Aust-Agder, Norway.
Lillesand was merged with the former municipalities of Eide, Høvåg and Vestre Moland in 1962.
Lillesand is built on the ancient estate of Lofthus, and the rebel Christian Lofthus was captured on this estate in ~1780.
Hotel Norge Lillesand (459 words)
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Lillesand was an important seafaring town, linked to the pulsating heart of Europe more closely than it is today.
He came to Lillesand in 1837 and bought up the land on which the hotel now stands.
Lillesand was just at the peak of its success as a seafaring town and the hotel soon became the center of the town's flourishing cultural life.
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