Hemnes Municipality
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Within Vinony's link graph, Hemnes Municipality is referenced by 170 other articles, and connects out to tincture, Northern Norway and Rana Blad.
The entry is geolocated on the map in NO, across 60 mapped points.
Vinony files it under 1839 establishments in Norway, Hemnes Municipality and Municipalities of Nordland.
Its subject is documented across 36 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Nordland
- District
- Helgeland
- Preceded by
- Rana Municipality
- Administrative centre
- Korgen
- Mayor 2019
- Paul Asphaug ( Sp )
- Total
- 1,589.50 km (613.71 sq mi)
- Land
- 1,429.98 km (552.12 sq mi)
- Water
- 159.52 km (61.59 sq mi) 10%
- Rank
- # 49 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 1,915.75 m (6,285.3 ft)
- Density
- 2.8/km (7.3/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- −1.5%
- Demonym
- Hemnesværing
- Norwegian form
- Neutral
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Iso 3166 code
- NO-1832
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Norway
- Demonym
- hemnesværing
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Nordland
- Capital
- Korgen
- Population
- 4486
- Area
- 0.39
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Leirfjord Municipality
- Official website
- www.hemnes.kommune.no
- Image
- Hemnesberget.JPG
- Households
- 46
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- Commons category
- Hemnes
- topic's main category
- Category:Hemnes
- language used
- Nynorsk
- inception
- 1837-00-00
- native label
- Hemnes
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Encyclopedic overview
Hemnes (Ume Sámi: Heäjmmanássja) is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the Helgeland traditional region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Korgen. Other villages include Bjerka, Bleikvasslia, Finneidfjord, Hemnesberget, and Sund.
View from Korgfjellet mountain in Hemnes (about 400 m amsl) towards Vefsn The municipality sits south of the Ranfjorden and stretches south and east toward the border with Sweden. The Nordland Line and European route E6 cross Hemnes on their way to the town of Mo i Rana about 20 kilometres (12 mi) to the northeast. The E6 highway enters Hemnes from the west through the Korgfjell Tunnel from Vefsn Municipality.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hemnes Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
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