Gildeskål Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Nordland
- District
- Salten
- Established
- 1 Jan 1838
- Created as
- Formannskapsdistrikt
- Administrative centre
- Inndyr
- Mayor 2019
- Bjørn Magne Pedersen ( H )
- Total
- 664.70 km (256.64 sq mi)
- Land
- 622.27 km (240.26 sq mi)
- Water
- 42.43 km (16.38 sq mi) 6.4%
- Rank
- # 170 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 1,331.83 m (4,369.5 ft)
- Density
- 2.9/km (7.5/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- −3.2%
- Demonyms
- Gildeskålfjerding, Gildeskålværing
- 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
- Demonym
- gildeskålværing
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Nordland
- Capital
- Inndyr
- Population
- 2024
- Area
- 0.43
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Meløy
- Official website
- www.gildeskal.kommune.no
- Image
- Sørfugløy.jpg
- Households
- 18
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- Commons category
- Gildeskål
- topic's main category
- Category:Gildeskål
- inception
- 1837-00-00
- language used
- Nynorsk
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Encyclopedic overview
Gildeskål is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the Bodø Region and the traditional district of Salten. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Inndyr. Other villages include Forstranda, Lekanger, Mevik, Mårnes, Nygårdsjøen, Saura, Storvik, Sør-Arnøy, Sørfinnset, and Våg.
The 665-square-kilometre (257 sq mi) municipality is the 170th largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Gildeskål Municipality is the 285th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 1,958. The municipality's population density is 2.9 inhabitants per square kilometre (7.5/sq mi) and its population has decreased by 3.2% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gildeskål Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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