Berlevåg Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Finnmark
- District
- Øst-Finnmark
- Established
- 1 Jan 1914
- Preceded by
- Tana Municipality
- Administrative centre
- Berlevåg
- Mayor 2015
- Rolf Laupstad ( Ap )
- Total
- 1,121.77 km (433.12 sq mi)
- Land
- 1,082.68 km (418.03 sq mi)
- Water
- 39.09 km (15.09 sq mi) 3.5%
- Rank
- # 100 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 619 m (2,031 ft)
- Density
- 0.8/km (2.1/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- −15.6%
- Demonym
- Berlevåging
- Norwegian form
- Bokmål
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Norway
- Official name
- Bearalváhki
- Demonym
- berlevåging
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Finnmark
- Capital
- Berlevåg
- Population
- 864
- Area
- 0.78
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Vadsø
- Official website
- www.berlevag.kommune.no
- Image
- Berlevåg sentrum.jpg
- Households
- 22
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- Commons category
- Berlevåg
- topic's main category
- Category:Berlevåg Municipality
- native label
- Berlevåg
- inception
- 1914-01-01
- language used
- Bokmål
- separated from
- Tana Municipality
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
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Encyclopedic overview
Berlevåg (Northern Sami: Bearalváhki) is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Øst-Finnmark. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Berlevåg.
There are two settlements in the municipality of Berlevåg: the village of Berlevåg and the village of Kongsfjord. The village of Berlevåg is by far the biggest; Kongsfjord only has around 45 inhabitants. Kjølnes Lighthouse is located along the shore, east of the village of Berlevåg.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Berlevåg Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.