Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Nordland
- District
- Salten
- Established
- 1 Jan 1884
- Preceded by
- Rødøy Municipality
- Administrative centre
- Ørnes
- Mayor 2015
- Sigurd Stormo ( Ap )
- Total
- 873.83 km (337.39 sq mi)
- Land
- 798.02 km (308.12 sq mi)
- Water
- 75.81 km (29.27 sq mi) 8.7%
- Rank
- # 133 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 1,636.81 m (5,370.1 ft)
- Density
- 7.1/km (18/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- −4.8%
- Demonym
- Meløyfjerding
- Norwegian form
- Bokmål
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Forside - Meløy kommune
meloy.kommune.no →Link to the official site · 40,000 chars · not written by Vinony
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Encyclopedic overview
Meløy is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the Salten traditional region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Ørnes. Other villages include Eidbukt, Neverdal, Glomfjord, Halsa, Reipå, Støtt, and Ågskardet.
The municipality is situated just to the north of the Arctic Circle on Norway's west coast. It encompasses the island of Meløya and some 700 other islands of various sizes around the Meløyfjorden, Glomfjorden, and Holandsfjorden in the south, along with a stretch of mainland coast.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Meløy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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