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Coordinates: | |
Country | Norway |
Region | Northern Norway |
County | Nordland |
District | Helgeland |
Municipality ID | NO-1833 |
Adm. Center | Ytteren |
Area | |
• Total | 3,980 km2 (1,536.7 sq mi) |
Time zone | CET (UTC+01:00) |
• Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+02:00) |
Created from | Mo in 1923 |
Merged into | Rana in 1964 |
Nord-Rana is a former municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The administrative centre was the village of Ytteren, just north of Mo i Rana. The former municipality makes up about 90% of the present-day municipality of Rana.[1]
The municipality of Nord-Rana was established on 1 January 1923 when the old municipality of Mo was split into the town of Mo i Rana and the rest of the old municipality became Nord-Rana. The new municipality had an initial population of 1,305. On 1 January 1964, Nord-Rana was merged with the town of Mo i Rana and parts of the municipalities of Sør-Rana and Nesna to create the large, new municipality of Rana. Prior to the merger, the population of Nord-Rana was 11,636.[2]