page_title: Steigen
section_title: General information
hierarchical_section_title: Steigen / General information
caption_attribution_description: Norsk bokmål: Løvøy gamle handelssted med Engeløya i bakgrunnenEnglish: "Løvøy old trading center" with Engeløya in the background, Norway.
context_page_description: Steigen is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Salten. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Leinesfjord. Other villages include Bogen, Leines, Nordfold, Nordskot, and Sørskot. Engeløy Airport, Grådussan is located in the northern part of the municipality. Måløy–Skarholmen Lighthouse is located in the Vestfjorden in the western part of the municipality. The only road access to the municipality is via the Steigen Tunnel.
  The 1,009-square-kilometre municipality is the 114th largest by area out of the 356 municipalities in Norway. Steigen is the 247th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 2,608. The municipality's population density is 2.7 inhabitants per square kilometre and its population has decreased by 0.4% over the previous 10-year period.
context_section_description: The municipality of Steigen was established on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). The southern part of Steigen was separated on 1 September 1900 to form the new Ledingen Municipality. This left 2,216 residents in Steigen.
  During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee. On 1 January 1964 a major municipal merger took place. A new municipality Steigen was created by the merging the following areas:
  all of Steigen Municipality (population: 1,829)
  all of Leiranger Municipality (population: 1,397)
  most of Nordfold Municipality except the Mørsvikbotn area (population: 1,212)
  the small Brennsund area of Kjerringøy Municipality (population: 30)
  the part of Hamarøy Municipality that was south of the Sagfjorden and between the lake Storvatnet and the Veggfjellan mountain (population: 77)
  Prior to the merger, the population of Steigen was 1,843, and after the merger, the new municipality had 4,545 residents.
caption: Løvøy old trading centre in Steigen
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