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| County | Nordland | |
| Landscape | Salten | |
| Municipality | NO-1845 | |
| Administrative centre | Straumen | |
| Mayor (2005) | Lars Kr. Evjenth (Ap) | |
| Official language form | Bokmål | |
| Area - Total - Land - Percentage | Ranked 41 1,636 km² 1,472 km² 0.51 % | |
| Population - Total (2004) - Percentage - Change (10 years) - Density | Ranked 329 2,184 0.05 % -18.4 % 1/km² | |
| Coordinates | Template:Coor dm | |
| www.sorfold.kommune.no Data from Statistics Norway (http://www.ssb.no/english/municipalities/1845) | ||
Sørfold is a municipality located in the county of Nordland, Norway.
The administrative centre is Straumen. The district's total land area is 1661.6 km² - of which 141.0 km² is covered with permanent ice and snow, and only 265.8 km² lies below the 150-m contour. The total length of coastline is 249 km. In 1987 only 3.2 km² was being farmed.
The small village of Mørsvikbotten is located in the north of the district. Mørsvikbotten has a school, a grocery shop, a small church, an aquaculture co-op and a few camping sites. 5km north of Mørsvikbotten lies Lake Mørsvikvatnet. In this area, Mørsry, the German army had a prisoner-of-war camp during World War II housing mostly Russian POWs. They were building a railway, which was intended to be a link between Fauske and Narvik. Some ruins of the camp, the foundations of the railway line, a tunnel and roads can still be observed. A small, now empty, cemetery for fallen Russian soldiers is located close to the camp, 50 m on the lefthand side just before the single concrete bridge.
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Alstahaug | Andøy | Ballangen | Beiarn | Bindal | Bodø | Brønnøy | Bø | Dønna | Evenes | Fauske | Flakstad | Gildeskål | Grane | Hadsel | Hamarøy | Hattfjelldal | Hemnes | Herøy | Leirfjord | Lurøy | Lødingen | Meløy | Moskenes | Narvik | Nesna | Rana | Rødøy | Røst | Saltdal | Sortland | Steigen | Sømna | Sørfold | Tjeldsund | Træna | Tysfjord | Vefsn | Vega | Vestvågøy | Vevelstad | Vågan | Værøy | Øksnes | |