Nærøy

Nærøy kommune
Municipality
View of the Opløfjord in Nærøy
Coat of arms Nord-Trøndelag within Norway
Nærøy within Nord-Trøndelag
Coordinates: 64°56′1″N 11°46′47″E / 64.93361°N 11.77972°E / 64.93361; 11.77972Coordinates: 64°56′1″N 11°46′47″E / 64.93361°N 11.77972°E / 64.93361; 11.77972
Country	Norway
County	Nord-Trøndelag
District	Namdalen
Administrative centre	Kolvereid
Government
• Mayor (1999)	Steinar Aspli (Sp)
Area
• Total	1,066.73 km2 (411.87 sq mi)
• Land	1,011.80 km2 (390.66 sq mi)
• Water	54.93 km2 (21.21 sq mi)
Area rank	95 in Norway
Population (2011)
• Total	4,999
• Rank	186 in Norway
• Density	4.9/km2 (13/sq mi)
• Change (10 years)	-6.6 %
Demonym(s)	Nærøyværing
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
ISO 3166 code	NO-1751
Official language form	Bokmål
Website	www.naroy.kommune.no
Data from Statistics Norway

Nærøy is a municipality in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. Nærøy is part of the Namdalen region. Norway's smallest town, Kolvereid, is the administration centre of the municipality. Some villages in Nærøy include Abelvær, Foldereid, Gravvik, Lund, Ottersøy, Salsbruket, Steine, and Torstad.

Nærøy was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). On 1 July 1869, the western district was separated from Nærøy to become the new municipality of Vikten. This left Nærøy with 1,477 residents. On 1 January 1902, an unpopulated area of Kolvereid was transferred to Nærøy. On 1 January 1964, the municipalities of Gravvik, Kolvereid, and most of Foldereid were merged with Nærøy to form a new, larger municipality of Nærøy. Prior to the merger, Nærøy had 2,182 residents and after the merger there were 6,241 residents.

The Old Norse form of the name was Njarðøy. The first element is maybe the stem form of the name of the Norse god Njord (but it is suspicious that it is not in the genitive case). The last element is øy which means "island". Historically, the name has had varying spellings such as Nærø or Nærøen.