Florø is Norway's westernmost city and administration center in
Kinn municipality. Florø was granted city status in 1860 and was
then a center for herring fishing both in the 19th century and in
the 1950s. Florø became the administration center in the new
municipality Flora when the municipalities Florø, Eikefjord, Bru and
Kinn were merged on 1 January 1964. Flora thus became an urban
municipality. Florø has 8,922 inhabitants as of 1 January 2020.
Today, the city appears as a small town with a developing
business community. Flora municipality was several times named the
most pleasant urban municipality in the country and was awarded the
"Environmental City Award" in 1998. Florø has a structural structure
as a large city, since it was originally planned as a city instead
of being developed as a by gradually, which has been common on the
outskirts of Norway. It has a main street that runs parallel to the
coastline, "Strandgata", which is the shopping street in the city.
After a refurbishment in recent years, this has been cobbled in its
entire length in combination with asphalt in the roads, as well as a
centrally located developed square.
Florø has an active and
varied cultural life with a cultural school and music, choir and
revue environment. Sports hall, swimming hall «Havhesten», football
pitches, loops and several sports and leisure organizations are also
available. The Coastal Museum provides insight into the area's
history.
The business community in the municipality is
export-oriented, and the main industries are the fishing industry,
shipbuilding and the service industry with, among other things, a
supply base for the oil industry. The inhabitants of the
municipality create values that are several times above the
national average.
Florø is one of the ports of call for the
Hurtigruten.