Nærøy

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Nærøy is a former coastal municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway, known for its fishing communities and island-dotted landscape.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Nærøy canonical 1
Nærøy (historically) 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (65)

Predicate Object
instanceOf coastal municipality
former municipality
borderedBy Bindal
Høylandet
Leka
Namsos
Vikna (former municipality)
coatOfArmsDescription blue field with three silver boat hooks in bend
contains Foldereid Church
Gravvik Church
Kolvereid Church
Nærøy Church
island archipelago
containsIsland Austra
Borgan
Gjerdinga
Kvingra
linked to: Vikna

Leka (historically partly associated regionally)
Lundøya
Marøya
Otterøya (local smaller island, not the Namsos one)
linked to: Otterøya
containsProtectedArea seabird reserves (various small islands)
containsSettlement Foldereid
Gravvik
Kolvereid
Ottersøy
linked to: Otterøya

Rørvik
containsWatercourse Foldafjord system
Nærøysundet
linked to: Nærøysund
country Norway
dissolvedAdministrativeUnitOn 2020-01-01
hasClimate coastal oceanic climate
hasCoastlineOn Folda fjord
linked to: Foldafjord

Norwegian Sea
hasHistoricalParish Nærøy parish
hasIndustry agriculture
fish farming
fish processing
fishing
forestry
hasMunicipalCentre Kolvereid
hasPopulationCharacteristic sparsely populated
hasWrittenFormOfNorwegian Bokmål
Nynorsk (to a lesser extent)
historicalCounty Nord-Trøndelag
knownFor aquaculture
coastal fisheries
fishing communities
island-dotted landscape
languageUsed Norwegian
locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity Trøndelag
locatedInFormerAdministrativeTerritorialEntity Nord-Trøndelag
locatedInGeographicFeature Namdalen
locatedInRegion Central Norway
linked to: central Norway
mergedInto Nærøysund municipality
namedAfter Nærøya island
officialLanguage Norwegian
linked to: Norwegian language
religion Church of Norway
terrainFeature numerous skerries and islets
rocky coastline
timeZone Central European Summer Time
Central European Time
transport Norwegian County Road 769
Norwegian County Road 770
ferry connections to islands

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Fosnes borderedBy Nærøy (historically)
linked to: Nærøy