Sørfold

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	Sørfold
Basic data
Commune number :	1845
Province  (county) :	North country
Administrative headquarters:	Straumen
Coordinates :	67 ° 32 '  N , 15 ° 32'  E Coordinates: 67 ° 32 '  N , 15 ° 32'  E
Surface:	1,637.42 km²
Residents:	1,926  (Feb 27, 2020)
Population density :	1 inhabitant per km²
Language form :	Bokmål
Website:	www.sorfold.kommune.no
politics
Mayor :	Gisle Erik Hansen  ( Sp ) (2019)
Location in the province of Nordland

Sørfold is a municipality in the Norwegian province of Nordland . The center of the municipality is Straumen .

Residents

The number of inhabitants is falling. In 2001, a little more than 2,352 people lived in the municipality, on February 27, 2020 only 1926.

The agriculturally usable area is small at 3.2 km². Of the total area of ​​the municipality (1,637 km²), only 266 km² are less than 150 meters above sea level. 141 km², i.e. 8.5% of the total area, is covered with snow and ice all year round.

Attractions

Trengselbrücke on the E 6

Husmannsplassen Kjelvik is an old farm about 56 km north of Fauske on European route 6 . A hiking trail several hundred meters long leads from the parking lot to the homestead. The farm was inhabited from 1747 to 1967 and now serves as an open-air museum . The original inhabitants were Sami immigrants from Sweden who also kept reindeer as farm animals on the farm. Since the farm residents could hardly make a living from agriculture, the men also worked as fishermen in Lofoten .

Part of the Sjunkhatten National Park and the Rago National Park are on the territory of the municipality.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistisk sentralbyrå - Befolkning