Folden Municipality
Folden herred | |
|---|---|
 Nordland within Norway | |
 Folden within Nordland | |
| Coordinates: 67°37′26″N 15°16′45″E / 67.62389°N 15.27917°E | |
| Country | Norway |
| County | Nordland |
| District | Salten |
| Established | 1 Jan 1838 |
| • Created as | Formannskapsdistrikt |
| Disestablished | 1 Jan 1887 |
| • Succeeded by | Nordfold-Kjerringøy and Sørfold |
| Population (1887) | |
| • Total | 3,293 |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| ISO 3166 code | NO-1845[1] |
Folden is a former municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The 2,271-square-kilometre (877 sq mi) municipality[2] existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1887. Folden encompassed all of the areas surrounding the Folda fjord and all of the fjord branches that connect to the main fjord. It included all the areas in what is now Sørfold Municipality, plus the Kjerringøy area of Bodø Municipality, and the southeastern part of the Steigen Municipality.[3]
- ^ Bolstad, Erik; Thorsnæs, Geir, eds. (2023-01-26). "Kommunenummer". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget.
- ^ Helland, Amund (1908). "Nordfolden, Sørfolden, og Kjerringø herreder". Norges land og folk: Nordlands amt (in Norwegian). Vol. XVIII. Kristiania, Norway: H. Aschehoug & Company. p. 298. Retrieved 2018-09-15.
- ^ Thorsnæs, Geir, ed. (2016-04-23). "Folda – tidligere kommune". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 2018-09-15.