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Alstahaug Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Nordland
- District
- Helgeland
- Established
- 1 Jan 1838
- Created as
- Formannskapsdistrikt
- Administrative centre
- Sandnessjøen
- Mayor 2019
- Peder Talseth ( Sp )
- Total
- 188.16 km (72.65 sq mi)
- Land
- 187.20 km (72.28 sq mi)
- Water
- 0.96 km (0.37 sq mi) 0.5%
- Rank
- # 308 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 1,072.01 m (3,517.1 ft)
- Density
- 39.4/km (102/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- +0.4%
- Demonym
- Alstahaugværing
- Norwegian form
- Neutral
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Norway
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Nordland
- Capital
- Sandnessjøen
- Population
- 7489
- Area
- 5.39
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Vega Municipality
- Official website
- www.alstahaug.kommune.no
- Image
- Sandnessjøen og Botnfjorden fra fly.jpg
- Households
- 125
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- Category:Alstahaug Municipality
- inception
- 1837-00-00
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- Alstahaug
- language used
- Nynorsk
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Encyclopedic overview
Alstahaug is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the Helgeland region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Sandnessjøen. Some of the villages in Alstahaug include Søvika and Tjøtta.
The old trading centre at Tjøtta Alsten island, with lowland at the foot of the Seven Sisters mountains
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alstahaug Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.