Evenes Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Nordland
- District
- Ofoten
- Established
- 1 January 1884
- Preceded by
- Ofoten Municipality
- Administrative centre
- Bogen i Ofoten
- Mayor 2019
- Terje Bartholsen ( Ap )
- Total
- 252.79 km (97.60 sq mi)
- Land
- 241.48 km (93.24 sq mi)
- Water
- 11.31 km (4.37 sq mi) 4.5%
- Rank
- # 286 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 1,134.43 m (3,721.9 ft)
- Density
- 5.3/km (14/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- −4.4%
- Demonym
- Evenesværing
- Norwegian form
- Bokmål
- S mi form
- Northern Sami , (semi-official)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Norway
- Demonym
- evenesværing
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Nordland
- Capital
- Bogen
- Population
- 1397
- Area
- 3.26
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Ballangen Municipality
- Official website
- www.evenes.kommune.no
- Image
- P6270090 1.jpg
- Households
- 29
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- Commons category
- Evenes
- topic's main category
- Category:Evenes
- language used
- Bokmål
- native label
- Evenes
- inception
- 1884-01-01
Sources (8)
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Encyclopedic overview
Evenes (Norwegian) or Evenášši (Northern Sami) is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Ofoten. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Bogen. Other villages in Evenes include Liland, Tårstad, Dragvik, Lakså, and the village of Evenes.
The 253-square-kilometre (98 sq mi) municipality is the 286th largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Evenes Municipality is the 312th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 1,330. The municipality's population density is 5.3 inhabitants per square kilometre (14/sq mi) and its population has decreased by 4.4% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Evenes Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.