Silvalen
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Silvalen or Herøyholmen is the administrative centre of Herøy Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The village is located on two different islands, Nord-Herøy and Sør-Herøy, with the Herøysundet strait running between them. The Herøysundet Bridge crosses the strait, connecting both sides of the village. Herøy Church is located in the southern part of the village.
In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 12 inbound references to Silvalen, and connects out to Norway, time zone and geographic coordinate system.
The entry is geolocated on the map in city, across 2 mapped points.
It is catalogued under topics including Administrative centres of municipalities of Norway, Herøy Municipality (Nordland) and Villages in Nordland.
Vinony links it to 13 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Silvalen
- Settlement.other_name
- Herøyholmen
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
- Settlement.image_caption
- View of the village
- Settlement.mapframe
- yes
- Settlement.mapframe zoom
- 11
- Settlement.mapframe marker
- village
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Nordland#Norway
- Settlement.pushpin_label
- Silvalen
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- left
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Norway
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Northern Norway
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- County
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Nordland
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Helgeland
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- administrative centre
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Herøy Municipality
- Population
- 886
- Area
- 0.97
- Elevation
- 7
- Capital of
- Herøy Municipality
- Image
- Heroey-Kirke-2018.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
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Silvalen or Herøyholmen is the administrative centre of Herøy Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The village is located on two different islands, Nord-Herøy and Sør-Herøy, with the Herøysundet strait running between them. The Herøysundet Bridge crosses the strait, connecting both sides of the village. Herøy Church is located in the southern part of the village.
The village has a population (2024) of 860 and a population density of .
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Silvalen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations