Øygarden

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Øygarden kommune
—  Municipality  —
Coat of arms Hordaland within Norway
Øygarden within Hordaland
Coordinates: 60°36′39″N 4°49′29″E / 60.61083, 4.82472
Country	Norway
County	Hordaland
District	Midhordland
Municipality ID	NO-1259
Administrative centre	Tjeldstø
Government
- Mayor (2003)
Area (Nr. 410 in Norway)
- Total	67 km² (25.9 sq mi)
- Land	64 km² (24.7 sq mi)
Population (2004)
- Total	3,931
- Density	61/km² (158/sq mi)
- Change (10 years)	15.8 %
- Rank in Norway	232
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
- Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Official language form	Nynorsk
Data from Statistics Norway
Website: www.oygarden.kommune.no

Øygarden is a municipality in the county of Hordaland, Norway.

Øygarden was created as a new municipality January 1, 1964 - after the merger of Hjelme and parts of Herdla.

The municipality consists of a chain of islands north of the municipality Fjell.

[edit] The name

The name is the finite form of øygard m 'row (fence) of islands'. The first element is øy f 'island', the last element is gard m 'fence'.

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