Hå

Hå Municipality

*Hå kommune*
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Municipality
	Flag Coat of arms
	Rogaland within Norway
	Hå within Rogaland
Country	Norway
County	Rogaland
District	Jæren
Administrative centre	Varhaug
Government
• Governor (2008)	Terje Mjåtveit (Nærbølista)
Area
• Total	259 km2 (100 sq mi)
• Land	249 km2 (96 sq mi)
• Rank	#297 in Norway
Population (2008)
• Total	15,438
• Rank	#66 in Norway
• Density	60/km2 (200/sq mi)
• Change (10 years)	+14.4%
Official language
• Norwegian form	Neutral
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	NO-1119
Website	Official website
	Data from Statistics Norway

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Hå is a municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. Hå is the southernmost municipality in the district Jæren.

The parish of Haa was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). It was divided into Nærbø and Varhaug in 1894. The municipality of Hå was (re)created after the merger of Nærbø, Varhaug, and Ogna on 1 January 1964. In local politics, the divisions between the three previous municipalities are very visible.

General information

Name

The municipality is named after the old Hå farm (Old Norse: Háar). The meaning of the name is unknown.

Coat-of-arms

The coat-of-arms is from modern times. They were granted on 5 July 1991. The arms show a special type of local winch, used to remove stones from the fields. It also symbolizes the hard living on the rocky soils of the municipality.^[3]

Settlements

List of villages in Hå^[4]
Name	Population	Area (km²)	Residents per km²
Brusand	380	0.23	1,652
Hæen	267	0.26	1,027
Nærbø	5,276	2.80	1,884
Ogna	360	0.34	1,059
Sirevåg	439	0.66	665
Varhaug	2,494	1.49	1,674
Vigrestad	1,794	1.27	1,413

References

^ "Forskrift om målvedtak i kommunar og fylkeskommunar" (in Norwegian). Lovdata.no.
^ Bolstad, Erik; Thorsnæs, Geir, eds. (2023-01-26). "Kommunenummer". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget.
^ Norske Kommunevåpen (1990). "Nye kommunevåbener i Norden". Retrieved 8 October 2008. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |dateformat= ignored (help)
^ Statistics Norway, "Urban settlements. Population and area, by municipality. 1 January 2007". Retrieved on 2008-02-22

External links

Media related to Hå at Wikimedia Commons
The dictionary definition of Hå at Wiktionary
Municipal fact sheet from Statistics Norway
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[1] "Forskrift om målvedtak i kommunar og fylkeskommunar" (in Norwegian). Lovdata.no.

[2] Bolstad, Erik; Thorsnæs, Geir, eds. (2023-01-26). "Kommunenummer". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget.

[3] Norske Kommunevåpen (1990). "Nye kommunevåbener i Norden". Retrieved 8 October 2008. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |dateformat= ignored (help)

[4] Statistics Norway, "Urban settlements. Population and area, by municipality. 1 January 2007". Retrieved on 2008-02-22

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