Vega Municipality
Vega kommune | |
|---|---|
| Vegø herred (historic name) | |
 View of Nes harbour in Vega | |
 Flag  Coat of arms | |
 Nordland within Norway | |
 Vega within Nordland | |
| Coordinates: 65°40′31″N 11°57′28″E / 65.67528°N 11.95778°E | |
| Country | Norway |
| County | Nordland |
| District | Helgeland |
| Established | 1 Jan 1838 |
| • Created as | Formannskapsdistrikt |
| Administrative centre | Gladstad |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2023) | Jon Floa (Sp) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 164.79 km2 (63.63 sq mi) |
| • Land | 162.56 km2 (62.76 sq mi) |
| • Water | 2.23 km2 (0.86 sq mi) 1.4% |
| • Rank | #314 in Norway |
| Population (2023) | |
| • Total | 1,219 |
| • Rank | #319 in Norway |
| • Density | 7.5/km2 (19/sq mi) |
| • Change (10 years) |  −1.5% |
| Demonym | Vegværing[1] |
| Official language | |
| • Norwegian form | Bokmål |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| ISO 3166 code | NO-1815[3] |
| Website | Official website |
| Official name | Vegaøyan The Vega Archipelago |
| Criteria | Cultural: v |
| Reference | 1143 |
| Inscription | 2004 (28th Session) |
| Area | 107,294 hectares (414 sq mi) |
| Buffer zone | 28,952 hectares (112 sq mi) |
Vega 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 Gladstad. Other villages include Holand and Ylvingen.
The municipality comprises about 6,500 islands in the Vega Archipelago. The main island of the municipality is the island of Vega, and it is also the largest at 163 square kilometres (63 sq mi). Bremstein Lighthouse is located in the southwestern part of the municipality.[4]
The 165-square-kilometre (64 sq mi) municipality is the 314th largest by area out of the 356 municipalities in Norway. Vega is the 319th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 1,219. The municipality's population density is 7.5 inhabitants per square kilometre (19/sq mi) and its population has decreased by 1.5% over the previous 10-year period.[5][6]
- ^ "Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.
- ^ "Forskrift om målvedtak i kommunar og fylkeskommunar" (in Norwegian). Lovdata.no.
- ^ Bolstad, Erik; Thorsnæs, Geir, eds. (26 January 2023). "Kommunenummer". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget.
- ^ Store norske leksikon. "Vega (bilde)" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 14 November 2011.
- ^ Statistisk sentralbyrå. "Table: 06913: Population 1 January and population changes during the calendar year (M)" (in Norwegian).
- ^ Statistisk sentralbyrå. "09280: Area of land and fresh water (km²) (M)" (in Norwegian).