Nygårdsjøen or Nygårdsjyen is a village area in

Gildeskål Municipality Gildeskål is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Nordland Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Bodø Region and the Districts of Norway, traditional district of Salten. The administrative centre of the municipali ...

Nordland Nordland (; , , , ) is one of the three northernmost Counties of Norway, counties in Norway in the Northern Norway region, bordering Troms in the north, Trøndelag in the south, Norrbotten County in Sweden to the east, Västerbotten County to t ...

county,

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...

. Nygårdsjøen is located in the northern part of the municipality, close to the border with

Bodø Municipality Bodø (; , ) is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Nordland Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Districts of Norway, traditional region of Salten. The administrative centre of the municipality is the Bodø (town ...

. The village lies along

Norwegian County Road 17 County Road 17 (), also known as the Coastal Highway (), is a Norwegian highway that runs from the town of Bodø in Nordland county (in the north) to the town of Steinkjer in Trøndelag county (in the south). It is long and includes six ferry ...

on the east side of the Nordfjorden, just north of the entrance to the

Beiar Fjord Beiar Fjord () is a fjord in Nordland, Norway. The fjord lies mostly within Beiarn Municipality, but the westernmost part of the fjord lies in Gildeskål Municipality Gildeskål is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Nordland ...

Saura Church Saura Church () is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Gildeskål Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Saura. It is one of the churches for the Gildeskål parish which is part of the Bodø domprosti (d ...

is located along the fjord on the west side of the village. The village area of Nygårdsjøen includes several farm areas: ''Innervik'', ''Skålsvik'', ''Røsnes'', '' Saura'', ''Nygård'', and '' Ertenvåg''. There are about 270 people that live in Nygårdsjøen.

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Gildeskål Villages in Nordland Populated places of Arctic Norway {{nordland-geo-stub