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The municipality Risør in the county of Aust-Agder, Norway, has 7,027 inhabitants as of January 1, 2002. Area: 191 km².
The town is east in Aust-Agder, located at Sønderledfjord and Sandnesfjord. (No connection with Sandnes in Rogaland.) It is a popular tourist place. The surrounding area includes many small lakes and hills. It is known for its beautiful coastline as well. Risør has in the last decade got a growing reputation as the regional capital of arts and craft, which culiminates in the "Villvin-festival" during the summer holiday.
The place is known for a church building from the Middle Ages, as well as one from the 1600's. Risør played a role in the napoleonic war in 1807-14, when Denmark-Norway took the side with France, and therefore became enemy with Norway's most important trading-partner: Great Britain. (It is from this period Henrik Ibsen took his subject, when he created his famous poem Terje Vigen.)It was north of Risør, in Lyngør that the English navy sunk the pride of Norway: The beautiful sailing ship Najaden under the Napoliatic wars.
| Aust-Agder |
| Arendal | Birkenes | Bygland | Bykle | Evje og Hornnes | Froland | Gjerstad | Grimstad | Iveland | Lillesand | Risør | Tvedestrand | Valle | Vegårshei | Åmli |
| Municipalities of Norway | Norway |