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Grimstad kommune
Municipality
View of Grimstad harbour
Coat of arms Agder within Norway
Grimstad within Agder
Coordinates: 58°21′07″N 08°32′40″E / 58.35194°N 8.54444°E / 58.35194; 8.54444
Country	Norway
County	Agder
District	Sørlandet
Established	1 Jan 1838
Administrative centre	Grimstad
Government
• Mayor (2015)	Beate Skretting (H)
Area
• Total	303.60 km2 (117.22 sq mi)
• Land	272.37 km2 (105.16 sq mi)
• Water	31.23 km2 (12.06 sq mi)  10.3%
• Rank	264 in Norway
Population  (2022)
• Total	24,017
• Rank	51 in Norway
• Density	88.2/km2 (228/sq mi)
• Change (10 years)	12.8%
Demonyms	Grimstadmann (m) Grimstadkvinne (f) Grimstadfolk[1]
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	NO-4202
Official language form	Bokmål[2]
Created as	Formannskapsdistrikt in 1838
Data from Statistics Norway

Grimstad is a municipality in Agder county, Norway.

Archaeology: Norway's second largest find of artefacts from the Viking period, is the Slemmedal hoard (Slemmedalskatten); It was found in 1981, and it dates to the 930s.^[3]

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