Lødingen Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Nordland
- District
- Ofoten
- Established
- 1 Jan 1838
- Created as
- Formannskapsdistrikt
- Administrative centre
- Lødingen
- Mayor 2019
- Hugo Jacobsen ( Ap )
- Total
- 527.41 km (203.63 sq mi)
- Land
- 507.67 km (196.01 sq mi)
- Water
- 19.74 km (7.62 sq mi) 3.7%
- Rank
- # 201 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 1,263.66 m (4,145.9 ft)
- Density
- 3.9/km (10/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- −8.4%
- Demonym
- Lødingsværing
- Norwegian form
- Bokmål
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Government
- Location
- Lødingen, Norway
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.458146.a
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Norway
- Demonym
- lødingsværing
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Nordland
- Capital
- Lødingen
- Population
- 1964
- Area
- 0.25
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Hadsel Municipality
- Official website
- www.lodingen.kommune.no
- Image
- Loedingen-2020.jpg
- Households
- 47
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- Commons category
- Lødingen
- topic's main category
- Category:Lødingen
- located in/on physical feature
- Hinnøya
- language used
- Bokmål
- inception
- 1837-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Lødingen (Northern Sami: Lodegak) is a municipality in Nordland county in Norway. Lødingen is located on the southeastern corner of the island of Hinnøya, and is part of the traditional district of Ofoten. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Lødingen. Other villages in the municipality include Våge and Ytterstad. Lødingen has the nickname "Biketown" because it hosts several annual bicycle races, including "Lofoten Insomnia" and Vestbygd-rittet.
The 527-square-kilometre (203 sq mi) municipality is by area the 201st largest out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Lødingen Municipality is the 279th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 2,060. The municipality's population density is 3.9 inhabitants per square kilometre (10/sq mi) and its population has decreased by 8.4% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lødingen Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.