Sørfold Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Nordland
- District
- Salten
- Established
- 1 Jan 1887
- Preceded by
- Folden Municipality
- Administrative centre
- Straumen
- Mayor 2023
- Kolbjørn Mathisen ( Ap )
- Total
- 1,637.41 km (632.21 sq mi)
- Land
- 1,471.26 km (568.06 sq mi)
- Water
- 166.15 km (64.15 sq mi) 10.1%
- Rank
- # 48 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 1,663.6 m (5,458 ft)
- Density
- 1.1/km (2.8/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- −6.5%
- Demonym
- Sørfoldværing
- Norwegian form
- Bokmål
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Norway
- Demonym
- sørfoldværing
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Nordland
- Capital
- Straumen
- Population
- 1819
- Area
- 0.23
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Jokkmokk Municipality
- Official website
- www.sorfold.kommune.no
- Image
- Zwischen Narvik & Mo i Rana Norwegen.JPG
- Households
- 25
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- Commons category
- Sørfold
- topic's main category
- Category:Sørfold
- inception
- 1887-01-01
- native label
- Sørfold
- language used
- Bokmål
- replaces
- Folden Municipality
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Encyclopedic overview
Sørfold (Norwegian) or Fuolldá (Lule Sami) is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Salten. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Straumen. Other villages in the municipality include Leirfjordgården, Mørsvikbotn, Røsvika, Rørstad, Styrkesvik, and Øvre Kvarv. The municipality surrounds the Sørfolda fjord and stretches east to the border with Sweden.
Kobbvatnet lake, Sørfold Mørsvikbotn village and E6 road View from the E6 highway
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sørfold Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.