Utøya is a village area in

Inderøy Municipality Inderøy is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Trøndelag Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Innherad Districts of Norway, region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Straumen, Trøn ...

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county,

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. The village sits about halfway between the village of

Vangshylla Vangshylla is a village in Inderøy Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located at the southwest end of the Inderøya peninsula in the Utøya, Inderøy, Utøya area, surrounded on two sides by the Trondheimsfjord. The village sits at ...

(to the southwest) and the village of

Sakshaug Sakshaug is a village in Inderøy Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located on the Inderøya peninsula, about northwest of the municipal center of Straumen and about northeast of the village of Utøya. The Old Sakshaug Church ...

(to the northeast). The village of Kjerknesvågen lies about to the north and the

Trondheimsfjord The Trondheim Fjord or Trondheimsfjorden (), an inlet of the Norwegian Sea, is Norway's List of Norwegian fjords, third-longest fjord at long. It is located in the west-central part of the country in Trøndelag county, and it stretches from Ørl ...

lies just to the south. The area of Utøya generally includes the area around the village which is the southern part of the

Inderøya Inderøya is a peninsula in the Trondheimsfjord in Trøndelag county, Norway. The peninsula constitutes part of Inderøy Municipality (which is named after the peninsula). The peninsula borders the Beitstadfjorden to the north, the Børgin fjor ...

peninsula.

Economy

The predominant employment in for the Utøya area is

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, as in the rest of Inderøy, in addition to functioning as a

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Steinkjer or is a municipality in Trøndelag Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Innherad Districts of Norway, region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the Steinkjer (town), town of Steinkjer which is located on the inne ...

Verdal Verdal may refer to: __NOTOC__ Places *Verdal Municipality Verdal is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Trøndelag Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Innherad Districts of Norway, region. The administrative cen ...

, and

Levanger Levanger may refer to: Places * Levanger Municipality, a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway * Levanger (town), a town within Levanger Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway * Levanger landsogn, a former municipality (1856–1962) in Trø ...

. There is no notable

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, but the area has a

Coop Marked Coop Marked is a chain of 100 (not including Matkroken) local grocery stores throughout Norway managed by Coop Norge and owned by local cooperatives. The chain represents the smallest stores in the Coop range, and is predominantly used in rura ...

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Utøy School Utøy School () is a primary school serving the Utøy area of Inderøy Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The school offers first through seventh grades, as well as operating the Utøy Kindergarten for children from zero to six years. Th ...

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, and

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. At nearby

, there is a

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that specializes in

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in the fjord, a boat

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, and also located there is the

Skarnsund Bridge The Skarnsund Bridge ( or ) is a long concrete cable-stayed bridge that crosses the Skarnsundet strait in Inderøy Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. When finished in 1991, it replaced the Vangshylla–Kjerringvik Ferry and it gives th ...

that when it opened in 1991 was the longest

cable-stayed bridge A cable-stayed bridge has one or more ''towers'' (or ''pylons''), from which wire rope, cables support the bridge deck. A distinctive feature are the cables or wikt:stay#Etymology 3, stays, which run directly from the tower to the deck, norm ...

in the world and connects the old

Mosvik Municipality Mosvik is a former municipality in the old Nord-Trøndelag county in Norway. The municipality was part of the Innherred region. The municipality existed from 1901 until its dissolution in 2012. The old municipality encompassed the southern part ...

area to

Innherred or is a traditional district in Trøndelag county in the central part of Norway. It consists of the areas around the inner part of the Trondheimsfjord in the central-east part of the county. The district includes the municipalities of Levange ...

Notable residents

Notable people from Utøy include Willy Ustad, a novelist; Ole Richter, Norwegian

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, and actress

Ingrid Bolsø Berdal Ingrid Bolsø Berdal (; born 2 March 1980) is a Norwegian actress. She started her career with the 2005 short film ''Limbo''. Her first leading role was in the Norwegian slasher film '' Cold Prey'' (2006). She has since appeared in over fourteen ...

References

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