Hamarøy Municipality
Sign in to saveAlso known as Hábmer, Hábmera suohkan, Hamarøy kommune
municipality in Nordland, Norway
Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Nordland
- District
- Salten
- Established
- 1 Jan 1838
- Created as
- Formannskapsdistrikt
- Administrative centre
- Oppeid
- Mayor 2019
- Britt Kristoffersen Løksa ( Sp )
- Total
- 2,020.44 km (780.10 sq mi)
- Land
- 1,837.61 km (709.51 sq mi)
- Water
- 182.83 km (70.59 sq mi) 9%
- Rank
- # 36 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 1,517.49 m (4,978.6 ft)
- Density
- 1.4/km (3.6/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- +49.9%
- Demonyms
- Hamarøying, Hamarøyværing
- Norwegian form
- Neutral
- S mi form
- Lule Sami
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
HAMARØY KOMMUNE
hamaroy.kommune.no →Link to the official site · 4,967 chars · not written by Vinony
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Norway
- Demonym
- hamarøyværing
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Nordland
- Capital
- Oppeid
- Population
- 2808
- Area
- 0.23
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Gällivare Municipality
- Official website
- www.hamaroy.kommune.no
- Image
- Tømmernes.jpg
- Households
- 39
Show 5 more facts
- Commons category
- Hamarøy
- topic's main category
- Category:Hamarøy
- native label
- Hamarøy kommune
- language used
- Lule Sami
- inception
- 1837-00-00
Sources (8)
via Wikidata · CC0
~10 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Hamarøy (Norwegian) or Hábmer (Lule Sami) is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Salten. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Oppeid. Other villages include Drag, Hellmobotn, Innhavet, Karlsøy, Korsnes, Presteid, Skutvika, Tømmerneset, Tranøya, and Ulvsvåg.
The 2,020-square-kilometre (780 sq mi) municipality is the 36th largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Hamarøy Municipality is the 243rd most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 2,729. The municipality's population density is 1.4 inhabitants per square kilometre (3.6/sq mi) and its population has increased by about 50% over the previous 10-year period (due to the enlargement of the municipality when part of Tysfjord Municipaltiy became part of Hamarøy in 2020).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hamarøy Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.