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Bardu Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Troms
- District
- Midt-Troms
- Preceded by
- Ibestad Municipality
- Administrative centre
- Setermoen
- Mayor 2015
- Toralf Heimdal ( Sp )
- Total
- 2,703.89 km (1,043.98 sq mi)
- Land
- 2,513.62 km (970.51 sq mi)
- Water
- 190.27 km (73.46 sq mi) 7%
- Rank
- # 18 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 1,660.61 m (5,448.2 ft)
- Density
- 1.5/km (3.9/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- +0.03%
- Demonym
- Bardudøl
- Norwegian form
- Neutral
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Iso 3166 code
- NO-5520
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Norway
- Demonym
- bardudøl
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Troms
- Capital
- Setermoen
- Population
- 4004
- Area
- 0.75
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Målselv
- Official website
- www.bardu.kommune.no
- Image
- Setermoen panorama.jpg
- Households
- 98
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- Commons category
- Bardu
- topic's main category
- Category:Bardu Municipality
- twinned administrative body
- Bjurholm Municipality
- different from
- Bardou
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- replaces
- Ibestad Municipality
- language used
- Nynorsk
- inception
- 1854-00-00
- separated from
- Ibestad Municipality
- native label
- Beardu suohkan
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Encyclopedic overview
Bardu (Northern Sami: Beardu suohkan and Kven: Perttulan komuuni) is a municipality in Troms county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Setermoen, the largest urban area in the municipality.
The 2,704-square-kilometre (1,044 sq mi) municipality is the 18th largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Bardu is the 203rd most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 3,986. The municipality's population density is 1.5 inhabitants per square kilometre (3.9/sq mi) and its population has increased by 0.03% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bardu Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.