Ørsta is the administrative centre of the

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

Ørsta is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the Sunnmøre region of Western Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Ørsta. Other villages in the municipality include Hovdebygda, Flåsk ...

, Møre og Romsdal,

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 at the innermost part of the

Ørstafjorden Ørstafjorden is a fjord in the municipality of Ørsta, Møre og Romsdal, Norway. The long fjord runs from the village of Ørsta to the Vartdalsfjorden. The fjord is about wide and the deepest point in the fjord reaches below sea level. The ...

, surrounded by the Sunnmørsalpene mountains. The village of Volda is located about southwest of Ørsta. The village has a population (2018) of 7,308 and a

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of . This makes it the fourth largest urban area in all of Møre og Romsdal county. Ørsta is the seat of the municipal government and it is also the commercial centre of the municipality. There is a shopping center, industry, and Ørsta–Volda Airport, Hovden (on the southwest side of the village area).

Ørsta Church Ørsta Church ( no, Ørsta kyrkje) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in the municipality of Ørsta in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located in the village of Ørsta. It is the church for the Ørsta parish which is part of the S ...

is also located in central part of Ørsta. A regional high school and the ''Møre Folkehøgskule'' are both located in Ørsta.

References

Villages in Møre og Romsdal Ørsta {{MøreRomsdal-geo-stub