Stranda is the administrative centre of Stranda Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county,

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the ...

. The village is located on the western shore of the Storfjorden. The village has a population (2018) of 2,969 and a

population density Population density (in agriculture: Stock (disambiguation), standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area. It is mostly applied to humans, but sometimes to other living organisms too. It is a key geographical ...

of . This is the largest urban area in the municipality. The village is the shopping and industry center of the municipality. It lies along Norwegian County Road 60, and there is a ferry connection to the village of

Liabygda Liabygda is a village in Stranda Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The village is located on the northern shore of the Norddalsfjorden, just north of the mouth of the Sunnylvsfjorden. Liabygda and its immediate vicinity are separa ...

, across the fjord. The village of Helsem lies about south of Stranda.

Stranda Church Stranda Church or Sløgstad Church ( no, Stranda kyrkje / Sløgstad kyrkje) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Stranda Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located in the village of Stranda, Møre og Romsdal, Stranda, ...

is located in Stranda. The newspaper '' Sunnmøringen'' is published in Stranda. At 10:00 p.m. on 8 January 1731, a landslide with an estimated volume of fell from a height of on the slope of the mountain Skafjell into the Storfjorden opposite Stranda. The slide generated a

megatsunami A megatsunami is a very large wave created by a large, sudden displacement of material into a body of water. Megatsunamis have quite different features from ordinary tsunamis. Ordinary tsunamis are caused by underwater tectonic activity (movemen ...

in height that struck Stranda, flooding the area for inland and destroying the church and all but two boathouses, as well as many boats. Damaging waves struck as far as way as

Ørskog Ørskog is a former municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It was part of the Sunnmøre region. The administrative centre was the village of Sjøholt. The other main village was Vaksvika, about south of Sjøholt. The European Rou ...

. The waves killed 17 people. It was the first natural disaster in Norway to be reported and documented in historic time.Hoel, Christer, "The Skafjell Rock Avalanche in 1731," fjords.com Retrieved 23 June 2020
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Villages in Møre og Romsdal Stranda {{MøreRomsdal-geo-stub