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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Finnmark
- District
- Øst-Finnmark
- Preceded by
- Vardø Municipality
- Administrative centre
- Båtsfjord
- Mayor 2023
- Øyvind Hauken ( LL )
- Total
- 1,435.12 km (554.10 sq mi)
- Land
- 1,416.59 km (546.95 sq mi)
- Water
- 18.53 km (7.15 sq mi) 1.3%
- Rank
- # 63 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 634 m (2,080 ft)
- Density
- 1.5/km (3.9/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- −4.3%
- Demonym
- Båtsfjording
- Norwegian form
- Neutral
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Iso 3166 code
- NO-5632
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Norway
- Official name
- Báhcavuona gielda
- Demonym
- båtsfjording
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Finnmark
- Capital
- Båtsfjord
- Population
- 2104
- Area
- 0
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Tana Municipality
- Official website
- www.batsfjord.kommune.no
- Image
- Batsfjord-1.jpg
- Households
- 44
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- Commons category
- Båtsfjord
- topic's main category
- Category:Båtsfjord
- inception
- 1839-00-00
- language used
- Nynorsk
- separated from
- Vardø Municipality
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Encyclopedic overview
Båtsfjord (Northern Sami: Báhcavuotna) is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Båtsfjord (which is the only settlement remaining in the municipality). Båtsfjord Airport is a new, modern airport, located just outside Båtsfjord village. The Hurtigruten coastal express ferry also has regularly scheduled stops in Båtsfjord village.
The 1,435-square-kilometre (554 sq mi) municipality is the 63rd largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Båtsfjord is the 276th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 2,113. The municipality's population density is 1.5 inhabitants per square kilometre (3.9/sq mi) and its population has decreased by 4.3% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Båtsfjord Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.