Official Name: | Hundvåg kommunedel |
Settlement Type: | Borough |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Norway |
Subdivision Name1: | Western Norway |
Subdivision Name2: | Rogaland |
Subdivision Type3: | District |
Subdivision Name3: | Jæren |
Subdivision Type4: | City |
Subdivision Name4: | Stavanger |
Utc Offset1: | +01:00 |
Utc Offset1 Dst: | +02:00 |
Area Total Km2: | 6.41 |
Population As Of: | 2016 |
Population Total: | 13217 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Postal Code Type: | Post Code |
Postal Code: | 4083 Hundvåg |
Elevation M: | 19 |
Elevation Footnotes: | [1] |
Coordinates: | 58.9972°N 5.7314°W |
Hundvåg is a borough of the city of Stavanger which lies in the southwestern part of the large municipality of Stavanger in Rogaland county, Norway. The borough includes a number of islands lying to the north of the main city centre of Stavanger. It includes the islands of Hundvåg, Sølyst, Grasholmen, Engøy, Buøy, Bjørnøy, Roaldsøy, and Ormøy. These islands are all connected together by bridges and they are connected to mainland Stavanger by the Stavanger City Bridge.[2]
The 6.41km2 borough has a population (2015) of 13,217. This gives the borough a population density of .[3]
Although the borders of city's "neighbourhoods" (Norwegian: delområder) do not correspond exactly to the borough borders, Hundvåg roughly consists of the neighbourhoods of Buøy and Hundvåg.
Hundvåg borough is led by a municipal borough council (Norwegian: kommunedelsutvalg). The council consists of 11 members, with the following party allegiances: