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Place details
- Locality
- Bodø
- Region
- Nordland
- Country
- Norge
- Population
- 34,073
- Timezone
- Europe/Oslo
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- Region
- Northern Norway
- County
- Nordland
- District
- Salten
- Municipality
- Bodø Municipality
- Total
- 14.91 km (5.76 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 4 m (13 ft)
- Density
- 2,873/km (7,440/sq mi)
- Demonym
- Bodøværing
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Post code
- 8006 Bodø
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Demonym
- bodøværing
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Bodø Municipality
- Population
- 43504
- Area
- 14.17
- Elevation
- 5
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Capital of
- Bodø Municipality
- Image
- Bodø 2006.jpg
- Significant event
- military occupation
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- category for people born here
- Q9223591
- Commons category
- Bodø (city)
- topic's main category
- Category:Bodø Municipality
- twinned administrative body
- Vyborg
- inception
- 1816-01-01
- native label
- Bodø
- P12749
- Ivan Ukhov
Sources (8)
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Encyclopedic overview
Bodø ( pronounced [ˈbûːdøː] , ; Pite Sami: Buvvda; Lule Sami: Bådåddjo) is a town in Bodø Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The town is the administrative centre of both the Bodø Municipality and Nordland county. It is located on the Bodø peninsula between the Vestfjorden and the Saltfjorden. Bodø is located just north of the Arctic Circle. It is the largest urban area and town in Nordland county and the second-largest town in Northern Norway.
The 14.91-square-kilometre (3,680-acre) town has a population of 42,831 as of 2023 and a population density of 2,873 inhabitants per square kilometre (7,440/sq mi).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bodø” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.