Stavanger

Stavanger is a metropolis and municipality in Norway. It is the 1/3 largest city and metropolitan area in Norway and the executive centre of Rogaland county. The municipality is the fourth most populous in Norway. Located at the Stavanger Peninsula in Southwest Norway, Stavanger counts its official founding 12 months as 1125, the year the Stavanger Cathedral changed into completed. Stavanger's core is to a big degree 18th- and nineteenth-century wooden houses which can be blanketed and considered a part of the metropolis's cultural heritage.

This has precipitated the city centre and inner city to maintain a small-town man or woman with an strangely excessive ratio of detached houses, and has contributed considerably to spreading the town's population increase to outlying parts of Greater Stavanger. The town's speedy populace growth inside the late 20th century become usually a end result of Norway's booming offshore oil enterprise. Today the oil industry is a key industry in the Stavanger vicinity and the city is extensively called the Oil Capital of Norway.