Nordland
Nordland is a county in Northern Norway. Nordland has an endless and very rugged coastline with thousands of islands. Further inland there are high mountains, glaciers and plateaus.Photo: Clemensfranz, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Lofoten and Narvik.
Lofoten
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Lofoten is a group of islands in the northern part of Norway. With its postcard-looking small fishing villages nestled in fjords dotting a very rugged coast with abrupt peaks rising directly from the ocean, the archipelago is often described as one of the most scenic parts of Norway.
Narvik
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Narvik is a city in Nordland in northern Norway. The town of Narvik has a population of about 14,000, while the entire municipality has a population of about 18,000.
Bodø
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Bodø is the seat of Nordland county in Norway. With more than 50,000 inhabitants, it is the second largest city in Northern Norway, on a peninsula facing the open sea, and infamously windy.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Vesterålen and Helgeland.
Vesterålen
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Vesterålen is an archipelago in northern Norway, north of the Lofoten islands. Most of the islands are wilderness.
Helgeland
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Helgeland is the southern part of Nordland in Norway, between Trøndelag and the Arctic Circle right in the centre of Norway. The Helgeland coast is characterised by a wide belt of islands stretching some 50 km into the Atlantic and fjords that cut deep into the mainland.
Tysfjord
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Tysfjord is a former municipality in Ofoten in Nordland. The centre is Kjøpsvik. Tysfjord lies around the fjord of the same name south-west of Narvik.
Sulitjelma
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Sulitjelma is a village and former mining town in the Fauske municipality of Nordland, Norway. It is a trailhead for treks to the Sulitjelmaisen and Blåmansisen glaciers and nearby fells, as well as for the 800 km Nordkalottleden trail.
Nordland
- Type: county of Norway with 240,000 residents
- Description: county of Norway
- Neighbors: Norrbotten County, Troms, Trøndelag, and Västerbotten County
- Location: Northern Norway, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Nordland” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Nordland”
- Albanian: “Nordland”
- Amharic: “ኖርድላንድ”
- Arabic: “نورلان (مقاطعة)”
- Arabic: “نورلان”
- Arabic: “نورلاند”
- Aragonese: “Nordland”
- Armenian: “Նուռլան”
- Asturian: “Nordland”
- Azerbaijani: “Nurlann”
- Balinese: “Nordland”
- Basque: “Nordland”
- Belarusian: “Нурлан”
- Belarusian: “Нурлян”
- Bengali: “নর্ডল্যান্ড”
- Bishnupriya: “নোর্দলেন্ড”
- Bosnian: “Nordland”
- Breton: “Nordland”
- Bulgarian: “Норлан”
- Burmese: “နို့ဒ်လန်းဒ်”
- Catalan: “Nordland”
- Cebuano: “Nordland fylke”
- Cebuano: “Nordland Fylke”
- Chinese: “Nordland”
- Chinese: “诺尔兰郡”
- Chinese: “諾蘭”
- Chuvash: “Нурланн”
- Cornish: “Nordland”
- Croatian: “Nordland”
- Czech: “Nordland”
- Danish: “Nordland Fylke”
- Danish: “Nordland”
- Dutch: “Nordland”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نوردلاند”
- Esperanto: “Nordland”
- Esperanto: “Nordlando”
- Estonian: “Nordland”
- Estonian: “Nordlandi maakond”
- Faroese: “Nordland fylki”
- Finnish: “Nordlandin lääni”
- French: “Comté de Nordland”
- French: “Nordland”
- Galician: “Nordland”
- Georgian: “ნურლანი”
- German: “Nordland”
- Greek: “Νόρντλαντ”
- Gujarati: “નોર્ડલેન્ડ”
- Hausa: “Nordland”
- Hebrew: “נורדלנד”
- Hindi: “नोर्डलैंड”
- Hungarian: “Nordland megye”
- Icelandic: “Norðurland”
- Indonesian: “Nordland”
- Irish: “Nordland”
- Italian: “Nordland”
- Japanese: “ヌールラン県”
- Javanese: “Nordland”
- Kannada: “ನಾರ್ಡ್ಲ್ಯಾಂಡ್”
- Kazakh: “Нордланд”
- Kirghiz: “Нордланд”
- Korean: “노를란주”
- Ladin: “Nordland”
- Latin: “Nordlandia”
- Latvian: “Nūrlanne”
- Limburgan: “Nordland”
- Lithuanian: “Nordlandas”
- Low German: “Amt Nordland”
- Lule Sami: “Nordlánda fylkka”
- Lule Sami: “Nordlánnda”
- Macedonian: “Нордланд”
- Macedonian: “Нурлан”
- Malay: “Nordland”
- Marathi: “नोर्डंड”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Nordland”
- Nauru: “Nordland”
- Northern Frisian: “Nordland (Prowins)”
- Northern Frisian: “Nordland”
- Northern Sami: “Nordlánda”
- Northern Sami: “Nordlándda fylka”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nordland fylke”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nordland”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nordland fylke”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nordland”
- Norwegian: “Nordland”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Nordland”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Norþland”
- Oromo: “Nordland”
- Ossetian: “Нурланн”
- Panjabi: “ਨੌਰਡਲੈਂਡ”
- Persian: “نوردلاند”
- Persian: “نوردلند”
- Polish: “Nordland”
- Portuguese: “Nordland”
- Portuguese: “Nordlanda”
- Pushto: “نوردلاند”
- Romanian: “Nordland”
- Russian: “Нурланн”
- Samogitian: “Nuordlands”
- Scots: “Nordland”
- Serbian: “Нордланд”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Nordland”
- Sinhala: “නොර්ඩ්ලන්ඩ්”
- Slovak: “Nordland”
- Slovenian: “Nordland”
- Somali: “Nordland”
- South Azerbaijani: “نوردلاند”
- Southern Sami: “Nordlaante”
- Southern Sami: “Nordlaanten fylhke”
- Spanish: “Nordland”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Nordland”
- Swahili: “Nordland”
- Swedish: “Nordland fylke”
- Swedish: “Nordland”
- Swiss German: “Nordland”
- Tajik: “Нордланд”
- Tamil: “Nordland”
- Tatar: “Нордланд”
- Telugu: “నార్డ్లాండ్”
- Thai: “เทศมณฑลนูลัน”
- Turkish: “Nordland”
- Ukrainian: “Нурланн”
- Urdu: “نودلان”
- Uzbek: “Nordland”
- Vietnamese: “Nordland”
- Vlaams: “Nordland”
- Waray (Philippines): “Nordland”
- Welsh: “Norland”
- Western Panjabi: “ناردلینڈ”
- Wu Chinese: “诺尔兰郡”
- Yue Chinese: “諾蘭郡”
- “Nuordlands”
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