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Vega Municipality
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Within Vinony's link graph, Vega Municipality is referenced by 140 other articles, and connects out to tincture, Norway and bird.
The entry is geolocated on the map in NO.
Vinony files it under 1838 establishments in Norway, Municipalities of Nordland and Populated places established in 1838.
Its subject is documented across 37 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Nordland
- District
- Helgeland
- Established
- 1 Jan 1838
- Created as
- Formannskapsdistrikt
- Administrative centre
- Gladstad
- Mayor 2023
- Jon Floa ( Sp )
- Total
- 164.79 km (63.63 sq mi)
- Land
- 162.56 km (62.76 sq mi)
- Water
- 2.23 km (0.86 sq mi) 1.4%
- Rank
- # 315 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 800.56 m (2,626.5 ft)
- Density
- 7.3/km (19/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- −1.2%
- Demonym
- Vegværing
- 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
- Has part
- Ylvingen
- Demonym
- vegværing
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Nordland
- Capital
- Gladstad
- Population
- 1202
- Area
- 0.13
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Alstahaug Municipality
- Official website
- www.vega.kommune.no
- Image
- Neshrbr.jpg
- Households
- 6
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- Commons category
- Vega, Nordland
- topic's main category
- Category:Vega Municipality
- located in/on physical feature
- Norwegian Sea
- language used
- Bokmål
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Encyclopedic overview
Vega 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 Gladstad. Other villages include Holand and Ylvingen.
The municipality comprises about 6,500 islands in the Vega Archipelago. The main island of the municipality is the island of Vega, and it is also the largest at 163 square kilometres (63 sq mi). Bremstein Lighthouse is located in the southwestern part of the municipality.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vega Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.