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Alstahaug Municipality
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Within Vinony's link graph, Alstahaug Municipality is referenced by 184 other articles, and connects out to tincture, Norway and World War II.
The entry is geolocated on the map in NO.
Vinony files it under 1838 establishments in Norway, Alstahaug Municipality and Municipalities of Nordland.
Its subject is documented across 38 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Nordland
- District
- Helgeland
- Established
- 1 Jan 1838
- Created as
- Formannskapsdistrikt
- Administrative centre
- Sandnessjøen
- Mayor 2019
- Peder Talseth ( Sp )
- Total
- 188.16 km (72.65 sq mi)
- Land
- 187.20 km (72.28 sq mi)
- Water
- 0.96 km (0.37 sq mi) 0.5%
- Rank
- # 308 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 1,072.01 m (3,517.1 ft)
- Density
- 39.4/km (102/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- +0.4%
- Demonym
- Alstahaugværing
- 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
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Nordland
- Capital
- Sandnessjøen
- Population
- 7489
- Area
- 5.39
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Vega Municipality
- Official website
- www.alstahaug.kommune.no
- Image
- Sandnessjøen og Botnfjorden fra fly.jpg
- Households
- 125
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- Category:Alstahaug Municipality
- inception
- 1837-00-00
- Commons category
- Alstahaug
- language used
- Nynorsk
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Encyclopedic overview
Alstahaug is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the Helgeland region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Sandnessjøen. Some of the villages in Alstahaug include Søvika and Tjøtta.
The old trading centre at Tjøtta Alsten island, with lowland at the foot of the Seven Sisters mountains
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alstahaug Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.