Vefsn Municipality
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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 )
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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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