Sola

:The article is about the Norwegian municipality. For other uses of Sola, please see Sola (disambiguation)

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Sola is a municipality in the county of Rogaland, Norway.

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Stavanger Airport is located here. With usually ample supplies of wind and waves, the Sola sand beach is a popular place for windsurfing.

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Municipality: A municipality or "general-purpose district" (compare with: "special-purpose district") is an administrative local area generally composed of a clearly defined territory and commonly referring to a city, town, or village government....

County: Originally, in continental Europe, a county was the land under the jurisdiction of a count. Counts are called "earls" in post-Celtic Great Britain and Ireland - the term is from Old Norse jarl and was introduced by the Vikings - but there is no correlation between "county" and "earldom." Rather, t...

Rogaland: Rogaland is a county in Norway, bordering Hordaland, Telemark, Aust-Agder and Vest-Agder....