Vågå

municipality in Innlandet, Norway
Organization municipality_of_norway Q113438
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Summary

Vågå is a municipality of Norway[1]. Vågå draws 149 Wikipedia views per month (municipality of norway category, ranking #62 of 360).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Innlandet[3]
  • Country: Norway[4]
  • Head of government: Harald Sve Bjørndal[5]
  • Capital: Vågåmo[6]
  • Shares border with: Lesja Municipality[7], Dovre Municipality[8], Sel Municipality[9], Nord-Fron[10], Øystre Slidre Municipality[11], Vang[12], Lom Municipality[13]
  • Main regulatory text: Act relating to municipalities and county authorities[14]
  • Coat of arms: coat of arms of Vågå[15]
  • Commons category: Vågå[16]
  • Inception: 1838[17]
  • Highest point: Surtningssue[18]
  • Significant event: boundary change[19]
  • Official website: https://www.vaga.kommune.no/[20]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Vågå Municipality[21]
  • Population: 3664[22], 3570[23], 3564[24], 3591[25], 3532[26], 3531[27], 3529[28], 3553[29]
  • Office held by head of government: mayor of Vågå[30]
  • Category for people born here: Q18362082[31]
  • Number of households: 1625[32], 1340[33], 139[34], 90[35], 16[36], 40[37]
  • Demonym: vagvær[38]
  • Native label: Vågå[39]
  • Area: 1330 km²[40], 1330.0001998893677 km²[41], 0 km²[42], 815.9279296668016 km²[43], 28.27813227794158 km²[44], 71.91293558908866 km²[45], 5.7975757191461 km²[46], 25.66737627436116 km²[47], 354.1635686466246 km²[48], 26.680908825669334 km²[49], 0.7220879894002384 km²[50], 0.29156491095951287 km²[51], 0.5581199893747353 km²[52], 790.98 km²[53]

Why It Matters

Vågå has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[54] Vågå is known by 19 alternative names across languages and contexts.[55]

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . vaga.kommune.no. vaga.kommune.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . Great Norwegian Encyclopedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Great Norwegian Encyclopedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . Q76137154. wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . ssb.no. ssb.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . ssb.no. ssb.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . ssb.no. ssb.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . ssb.no. ssb.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . ssb.no. ssb.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . ssb.no. ssb.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . ssb.no. ssb.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . ssb.no. ssb.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . Housing conditions for Norway 2018. wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . Housing conditions for Norway 2018. wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . Housing conditions for Norway 2018. wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . Housing conditions for Norway 2018. wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . Housing conditions for Norway 2018. wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . Housing conditions for Norway 2018. wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . sprakradet.no. Retrieved . sprakradet.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  38. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  39. [41] ↑ . kartverket.no. kartverket.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  40. [42] ↑ . kartverket.no. kartverket.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  41. [43] ↑ . kartverket.no. kartverket.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  42. [44] ↑ . kartverket.no. kartverket.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  43. [45] ↑ . kartverket.no. kartverket.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  44. [46] ↑ . kartverket.no. kartverket.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  45. [47] ↑ . kartverket.no. kartverket.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  46. [48] ↑ . kartverket.no. kartverket.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  47. [49] ↑ . kartverket.no. kartverket.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  48. [50] ↑ . kartverket.no. kartverket.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  49. [51] ↑ . kartverket.no. kartverket.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  50. [52] ↑ . kartverket.no. kartverket.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  51. [53] ↑ . Area statistics for Norway 2020. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [54] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [55] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 13h ago · OKA bot bot · 2026-10-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Highest point → Surtningssue
    Wikipedia languages → ['bar', 'bpy', 'ca', 'ceb', 'da', 'de', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'et', 'eu', 'fa', 'fi'
    Sitelink count → 42
    Claims rich → —
    "/* 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"
  2. 9w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Language used → Nynorsk
    Capital → Vågåmo
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Oppland, Innlandet
    Official website → https://www.vaga.kommune.no/
    + 28 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/46950|batch #46950]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
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