Ofoten
Sign in to saveOfoten is a traditional district in Nordland county in Northern Norway. It consists of Evenes Municipality, Narvik Municipality, and Lødingen Municipality. It is named after the main fjord, Ofotfjorden, which is at the center of this district. The district was home to 29,968 residents in 2016, with almost half of the residents living in the town of Narvik.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Ofoten
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Traditional district
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Regionråd i Nordland.svg
- Settlement.image_caption
- The pink area in the map is the Ofoten region council. Lødingen is not part of the council, but is considered a part of the Ofoten district.
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Norway
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Northern Norway
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- County
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Nordland
- Settlement.timezone1
- CET
- Settlement.utc_offset1
- +01:00
- Settlement.timezone1_DST
- CEST
- Settlement.utc_offset1_DST
- +02:00
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 7829
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2015
- Settlement.population_total
- 29,968
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of Norway
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Tjeldsund
- Image
- Regionråd i Nordland.svg
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- Commons category
- Ofoten
- topic's main category
- Category:Ofoten
- native label
- Ufuohttá
- different from
- Lofoten
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Geography
- History
- Name
- Media gallery
- See also
- References
Ofoten is a traditional district in Nordland county in Northern Norway. It consists of Evenes Municipality, Narvik Municipality, and Lødingen Municipality. It is named after the main fjord, Ofotfjorden, which is at the center of this district. The district was home to 29,968 residents in 2016, with almost half of the residents living in the town of Narvik.
thumb|left|View of Beisfjorden
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ofoten” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Gallery (2)
On the map
3 mapped locations