The county governor of

Vest-Agder Vest-Agder (; "West Agder") was one of 18 counties (''fylker'') in Norway up until 1 January 2020, when it was merged with Aust-Agder to form Agder county. In 2016, there were 182,701 inhabitants, around 3.5% of the total population of Norway. I ...

county in Norway represented the central government administration in the county. The office of county governor is a government agency of the Kingdom of Norway; the title was (before 1919) and then (after 1919). On 1 January 2016, the office was merged with the county governor of Aust-Agder into the county governor of Aust- og Vest-Agder in preparation for the merger of the two counties on 1 January 2020. The diocesan county called '' Stavanger stiftamt'' was established in 1669 by the king and it had several subordinate counties (amt) including ''Agdesiden amt''. In 1671, ''Agdesiden amt'' was divided into Lister og Mandals amt (later called Vest-Agder) and Nedenæs amt (later called Aust-Agder). In 1682, the ''Stavanger stiftamt'' headquarters was moved to the town of

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and renamed ''Christianssand stiftamt''. The seat of ''Lister og Mandals

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'' was also at Christianssand. In 1919, the county was renamed ''Vest-Agder''. In 2020, Vest-Agder and

Aust-Agder Aust-Agder (, en, "East Agder") was a county (''fylke'') in Norway until 1 January 2020, when it was merged with Vest-Agder to form Agder county. In 2002, there were 102,945 inhabitants, which was 2.2% of Norway's population. Its area was . The ...

counties were merged into

Agder Agder is a county (''fylke'') and traditional region in the southern part of Norway. The county was established on 1 January 2020, when the old Vest-Agder and Aust-Agder counties were merged. Since the early 1900s, the term Sørlandet ("south ...

county. The county governor is the government's representative in the county. The governor carries out the resolutions and guidelines of the

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and government. This is done first by the county governor performing administrative tasks on behalf of the ministries. Secondly, the county governor also monitors the activities of the municipalities and is the appeal body for many types of municipal decisions.

Names

The word for county (

or fylke) has changed over time as has the name of the county. From 1671 until 1918, the title was ''Amtmann i Lister og Mandals amt''. From 1919 until 2016, the title was ''Fylkesmann i Vest-Agder fylke''.

List of county governors

Vest-Agder county has had the following governors:

References

{{Lists of county governors of Norway