Moskenes
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Nordland
- District
- Lofoten
- Established
- 1 July 1916
- Preceded by
- Flakstad Municipality
- Administrative centre
- Reine
- Mayor 2023
- Hanna Sverdrup ( Local list )
- Total
- 118.78 km (45.86 sq mi)
- Land
- 110.47 km (42.65 sq mi)
- Water
- 8.31 km (3.21 sq mi) 7%
- Rank
- # 322 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 1,026.38 m (3,367.4 ft)
- Density
- 8/km (21/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- −13.9%
- Demonym
- Moskenesfjerding
- Norwegian form
- Neutral
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Hovedportal
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Norway
- Demonym
- moskenesfjerding
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Nordland
- Capital
- Reine
- Population
- 976
- Area
- 0
- Elevation
- 10
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Flakstad Municipality
- Official website
- moskenes.kommune.no
- Image
- Reine Lofoten.jpg
- Households
- 24
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- Commons category
- Moskenes
- topic's main category
- Category:Moskenes
- inception
- 1916-07-01
- language used
- Nynorsk
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Encyclopedic overview
Moskenes is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The municipality comprises the southern part of the island of Moskenesøya in the traditional district of Lofoten. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Reine. Other villages include Sørvågen, Hamnøya, and Å.
The 119-square-kilometre (46 sq mi) municipality is the 322nd largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Moskenes Municipality is the 338th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 954. The municipality's population density is 8 inhabitants per square kilometre (21/sq mi) and its population has decreased by 13.9% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Moskenes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.