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Nesna Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Nordland
- District
- Helgeland
- Established
- 1 January 1838
- Created as
- Formannskapsdistrikt
- Administrative centre
- Nesna
- Mayor 2015
- Hanne Davidsen ( Ap )
- Total
- 183.19 km (70.73 sq mi)
- Land
- 181.30 km (70.00 sq mi)
- Water
- 1.89 km (0.73 sq mi) 1%
- Rank
- # 310 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 921.75 m (3,024.1 ft)
- Density
- 9.9/km (26/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- −4.9%
- Demonym
- Nesnaværing
- Norwegian form
- Bokmål
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Government
- Founded
- 1838
- Location
- Nesna, Norway
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.458261.c
Official website
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Encyclopedic overview
Nesna 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 Nesna. Other villages in Nesna include Handnesneset, Husby, Saura, and Vikholmen.
Map of Nesna municipality The municipality consists of the three main islands Tomma, Hugla (known as "Hugløy" by its inhabitants), and Handnesøya, and one peninsula that bears the name of the municipality, Nesna. The old Husby Estate is headquartered in Husby on Tomma island.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nesna Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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