Vefsn Municipality
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Vinony's link graph records 192 inbound references to Vefsn Municipality, and connects out to tincture, Norway and World War II.
The entry is geolocated on the map in NO, across 60 mapped points.
It sits within the topics 1838 establishments in Norway, Municipalities of Nordland and Populated places established in 1838.
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Nordland
- District
- Helgeland
- Established
- 1 Jan 1838
- Created as
- Formannskapsdistrikt
- Administrative centre
- Mosjøen
- Mayor 2023
- Rune Krutå ( Ap )
- Total
- 1,929.40 km (744.95 sq mi)
- Land
- 1,838.13 km (709.71 sq mi)
- Water
- 91.27 km (35.24 sq mi) 4.7%
- Rank
- # 41 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 1,556.55 m (5,106.8 ft)
- Density
- 7/km (18/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- +1.4%
- Demonym
- Vefsning
- Norwegian form
- Neutral
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Norway
- Demonym
- vefsning
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Nordland
- Capital
- Mosjøen
- Population
- 13481
- Area
- 1.63
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Vevelstad Municipality
- Official website
- www.vefsn.kommune.no
- Image
- Drevjedalen-2006-07-15.JPG
- Households
- 348
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- Commons category
- Vefsn
- topic's main category
- Category:Vefsn Municipality
- native label
- Vaapste
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Vefsn
- inception
- 1837-00-00
- language used
- Nynorsk
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Encyclopedic overview
Vefsn (Southern Sami: Vaapste) is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the Helgeland traditional region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Mosjøen (population: 9,843). Some of the notable villages in Vefsn include Drevvassbygda, Elsfjord, and Husvik.
The 1,929-square-kilometre (745 sq mi) municipality is the 41st largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Vefsn Municipality is the 91st most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 13,469. The municipality's population density is 7 inhabitants per square kilometre (18/sq mi) and its population has increased by 1.4% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vefsn Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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