Lødingen

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	Lødingen
Basic data
Commune number :	1851
Province  (county) :	North country
Administrative headquarters:	Lødingen
Coordinates :	68 ° 25 '  N , 16 ° 1'  E Coordinates: 68 ° 25 '  N , 16 ° 1'  E
Surface:	527.41 km²
Residents:	2,034  (Feb 27, 2020)
Population density :	4 inhabitants per km²
Language form :	Bokmål
Website:	www.lodingen.kommune.no
politics
Mayor :	Hugo Bongard Jacobsen  ( Ap ) (2019)
Location in the province of Nordland

Lødingen is a municipality in the province ( Fylke ) Nordland in Norway . It is located in the southeast of the island of Hinnøya on the Vesterålen archipelago and borders in the north on the municipalities of Sortland and Kvæfjord , in the east on the municipality Tjeldsund , in the southwest on the municipality Vågan and in the west on the municipality Hadsel . With a community area of ​​527 square kilometers, it had a total of 2245 inhabitants in 2007. 1753 people live in the main town of the same name (Norwegian: Tettsted ).

Lødingen is connected to the municipality of Bognes by the Tysfjord on European route 6 via a year-round ferry service that operates around the clock . The passage across the Vestfjord takes about an hour. The Lofoten archipelago can also be reached from here in about an hour via the Lofast road connection on European route 10 .

Personalities

• Olaf Kjelsberg (1857–1927), engineer and ski pioneer
• Dagfinn Bakke (1933–2019), painter, caricaturist and illustrator

Web links

Commons : Lødingen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• The municipality's website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistisk sentralbyrå - Befolkning

The port of Lødingen