Place:Tonstad, Vest-Agder, Norway

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NameTonstad
TypeParish
Coordinates58.667°N 6.717°E
Located inVest-Agder, Norway
Also located inSirdal, Vest-Agder, Norway     (1839 - 1904)
Sirdal, Vest-Agder, Norway     (1960 - )
Contained Places
Gård
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Tonstad is a parish, and was also a separate municipality from 1905 to 1959. Tonstad (village? parish?) is also the administrative centre of the municipality of Sirdal.


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Tonstad is the administrative centre of the municipality of Sirdal in Agder county, Norway. The village is located at the northern end of the lake Sirdalsvatnet in the Sirdalen valley. The village has a population (2015) of 874, giving the village a population density of .

Tonstad Hydroelectric Power Station and the Tonstad ski center are both located in and around this village. The Tonstad Church is also located in the village.

The village of Tonstad was the administrative center of the old municipality of Tonstad from 1905 until its dissolution in 1960. In 1960, it became the part of Sirdal, and it continued to be the administrative center of that new municipality.

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