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Hemnes Municipality

municipality in Nordland, Norway
Organization municipality_of_norway Q488776

Facts

25 properties

Identity

Instance of
municipality of Norway, organization[5]
Official website
www.hemnes.kommune.no[18]
Legal form
kommune[27]
Native label
Hemnes[35]

Status and dates

Inception
1837[15]

Location

Country
Norway[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 66.054°, 14.031°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Nordland[2]

Industry and activity

Industry
general public administration activities[14]

Financials

Employees
+930[25]
More facts +15
Area
0.39 (0.24–1.7k, n=26)[36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49]
Capital
Korgen[6]
Demonym
hemnesværing, hemnesværing[34]
Has list
Grunnkretser i Hemnes kommune
Head of government
Kjell Joar Petersen-Øverleir, Christine Trones, Paul Asphaug[4]
Highest point
Oksskolten[16]
Language used
Bokmål, Nynorsk
Main regulatory text
Act relating to municipalities and county authorities[13]
Number of households
46 (42–2.0k, n=6)[28][29][30][31][32][33]
Office held by head of government
Mayor of Hemnes[26]
Official language
Bokmål[7]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
WikiProject Govdirectory
Population
4.5k (4.4k–4.5k, n=8)[19][20][21][22][23][24]
Shares border with
Rana Municipality, Hattfjelldal Municipality, Vefsn Municipality, Storuman Municipality, Leirfjord Municipality[8][9][10][11][12]
Significant event
boundary change, boundary change, boundary change, boundary change[17]
🏷️ Also known as
en Hemnes Municipality da Hemnes Kommune de Hemnes ja ヘムネス ro Comuna Hemnes ru Хемнес sv Hemnes kommun zh 海姆內斯 zh-hans 海姆内斯
🔖 Identifiers · 17
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Hemnesberget.JPG ↗
Data Commons ID
wikidataId/Q488776
Freebase ID
/m/018bdy
GNS Unique Feature ID
-262737
GeoNames ID
3152993
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Hemnes
INaturalist place ID
40216
KulturNav-ID
af898226-4971-401a-83bc-b2c042f2ffaf
Lokalhistoriewiki.no article ID
Hemnes_kommune
MusicBrainz area ID
d261c656-d916-456c-9cc9-afa0d3aceca8
Norwegian municipality number
1832
Norwegian organisation number
846316442
Show all 17 identifiers +5
OpenStreetMap relation ID
408201
SSR place name number
572460
Topic's main category
Category:Hemnes
Who's on First ID
1159296695
X (Twitter) username
Hemneskommune

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🔗 Connections
Contained subdivisions 21
Røssvatnet, Korgen, Hemnesberget, Bjerka, Oksskolten, Gresvatnet, Okstindan, Bleikvasslia +13 more
Shares border with 5
Rana Municipality, Storuman Municipality, Vefsn Municipality, Hattfjelldal Municipality, Leirfjord Municipality
← Shares border with 5
Rana Municipality, Storuman Municipality, Vefsn Municipality, Hattfjelldal Municipality, Leirfjord Municipality
Language used 2
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Capital 1
Korgen
Country 1
Norway
Instance of 1
municipality of Norway
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Nordland
Located in time zone 1
UTC+01:00
On focus list of Wikimedia project 1
WikiProject Govdirectory
People born here 1
Laila Stien
Topic's main category 1
Category:Hemnes
← Capital of 1
Korgen
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Hemnes
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Nordland
← Located in the present-day administrative territorial entity 1
Sør-Rana Municipality
← Separated from 1
Sør-Rana Municipality
← Terminus 1
Korgfjell Tunnel
← Terminus location 1
Korgfjell Tunnel
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Summary

Hemnes Municipality is a municipality of Norway[1].

Related Entities

Norway WikiProject Govdirectory

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . hemnes.kommune.no. hemnes.kommune.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Great Norwegian Encyclopedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Norwegian Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . Norwegian Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . Great Norwegian Encyclopedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . Historisk oversikt over endringer i kommune- og fylkesinndelingen. wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . Norwegian Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . ssb.no. ssb.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . ssb.no. ssb.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . ssb.no. ssb.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . ssb.no. ssb.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . ssb.no. ssb.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . ssb.no. ssb.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . Norwegian Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [28] ↑ . Housing conditions for Norway 2018. wikidata.org.
  28. [29] ↑ . Housing conditions for Norway 2018. wikidata.org.
  29. [30] ↑ . Housing conditions for Norway 2018. wikidata.org.
  30. [31] ↑ . Housing conditions for Norway 2018. wikidata.org.
  31. [32] ↑ . Housing conditions for Norway 2018. wikidata.org.
  32. [33] ↑ . Housing conditions for Norway 2018. wikidata.org.
  33. [34] ↑ . Great Norwegian Encyclopedia. Retrieved . sprakradet.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  34. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [37] ↑ . kartverket.no. kartverket.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  37. [38] ↑ . kartverket.no. kartverket.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  38. [39] ↑ . kartverket.no. kartverket.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  39. [40] ↑ . kartverket.no. kartverket.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  40. [41] ↑ . kartverket.no. kartverket.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  41. [42] ↑ . kartverket.no. kartverket.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  42. [43] ↑ . kartverket.no. kartverket.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  43. [44] ↑ . kartverket.no. kartverket.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  44. [45] ↑ . kartverket.no. kartverket.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  45. [46] ↑ . kartverket.no. kartverket.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  46. [47] ↑ . kartverket.no. kartverket.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  47. [48] ↑ . kartverket.no. kartverket.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  48. [49] ↑ . kartverket.no. kartverket.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 12d ago · Ajarmund · 2026-10-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Industry → general public administration activities
    Legal form → kommune
    Norwegian organisation number → 846316442
    Employees → {'amount': '+930'}
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-multiple-properties-update:0||7 */ kommuner ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/386bb0bd7fa|details]])"
  2. 20d ago · OKA bot bot · 2026-10-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has list → Grunnkretser i Hemnes kommune
    On focus list of Wikimedia project → WikiProject Govdirectory
    Topic's main category → Category:Hemnes
    Category for maps or plans → Category:Maps of Hemnes
    + 28 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-multiple-properties-update:0||3 */ source for demonym, source for administrative centre, highest point from Store norske leksikon ([[Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/OK"
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