Nordlandene amt

Nordland fylke
County
The Seven Sisters islands from the MS Finnmark Hurtigruten ship in March 2005.
Coat of arms
Nordland within Norway
Country	Norway
County	Nordland
Region	Nord-Norge
County ID	NO-18
Administrative centre	Bodø
Government
• Governor	Tomas Norvoll   (2013–present)
• County mayor	Sonja Alice Steen   AP   (2011–present)
Area
• Total	38,456 km2 (14,848 sq mi)
• Land	36,074 km2 (13,928 sq mi)
Area rank	#2 in Norway, 11.86% of Norway's land area
Population (2016.01.01)
• Total	241 906
• Rank	9 (5.18% of country)
• Density	7/km2 (20/sq mi)
• Change (10 years)	-1.6 %
Demonym(s)	Nordlending
Time zone	CET (UTC+01)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+02)
Official language form	Neutral
Income (per capita)	128,600 NOK
GDP (per capita)	202,039 NOK (2001)
GDP national rank	9 (3.15% of country)
Website	www.nfk.no
Data from Statistics Norway

Nordland (Norwegian pronunciation: [²nuːrlɑn] ( listen); Northern Sami: Nordlánda) is a county in Norway in the Northern Norway region, bordering Troms in the north, Nord-Trøndelag in the south, Norrbotten County in Sweden to the east, Västerbotten County to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean (Norwegian Sea) to the west. The county was formerly known as Nordlandene amt. The county administration is in Bodø. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen has been administered from Nordland since 1995.

In the southern part is Vega, listed on the UNESCO World Heritage Site list. The history of Nordland is a tale about the gifts from the sea: One of the most productive seas in the world providing food all year since ancient times, the same sea creates a climate more moderate than any other place in the arctic; even the bedrock itself enriched by sea living organisms millions of years ago in the geological past.