Vevelstad Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Nordland
- District
- Helgeland
- Established
- 1 July 1916
- Preceded by
- Tjøtta Municipality
- Administrative centre
- Forvik
- Mayor 2023
- Sivert Vevelstad ( Ap )
- Total
- 539.04 km (208.12 sq mi)
- Land
- 516.24 km (199.32 sq mi)
- Water
- 22.80 km (8.80 sq mi) 4.2%
- Rank
- # 198 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 1,239.2 m (4,066 ft)
- Density
- 0.9/km (2.3/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- −3%
- Demonym
- Vevelstadværing
- 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
- vevelstadværing
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Nordland
- Capital
- Forvik
- Population
- 477
- Area
- 0.04
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Vega Municipality
- Official website
- www.vevelstad.kommune.no
- Image
- 500px photo (218848373).jpeg
- Households
- 0
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- Commons category
- Vevelstad
- topic's main category
- Category:Vevelstad Municipality
- inception
- 1916-07-01
- language used
- Bokmål
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Encyclopedic overview
Vevelstad 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 Forvik. The municipality is relatively small and isolated, with no road connections to the rest of Norway. It is only accessible by ferry, despite much of the municipality being located on the mainland.
The 539-square-kilometre (208 sq mi) municipality is the 198th largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Vevelstad Municipality is the 352nd most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 480. The municipality's population density is 0.9 inhabitants per square kilometre (2.3/sq mi) and its population has decreased by 3% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vevelstad Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.