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Karasjok Municipality
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municipality in Finnmark, Norway
Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Finnmark
- Established
- 1 Jan 1866
- Preceded by
- Kistrand Municipality
- Administrative centre
- Karasjok
- Mayor 2015
- Svein Atle Somby ( Ap )
- Total
- 5,452.94 km (2,105.39 sq mi)
- Land
- 5,210.70 km (2,011.86 sq mi)
- Water
- 242.24 km (93.53 sq mi) 4.4%
- Rank
- # 2 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 1,024 m (3,360 ft)
- Density
- 0.5/km (1.3/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- −4.9%
- Demonym
- Karasjoking
- Norwegian form
- Bokmål
- S mi form
- Northern Sami
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Government
- Founded
- 1866
- Location
- Karasjok, Norway
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.458213.9
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Norway
- Demonym
- karasjoking
- Country
- Norway
- Capital
- Karasjok
- Official language
- Northern Sami
- Population
- 2524
- Area
- 0.42
- Elevation
- 329
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Inari
- Official website
- www.karasjok.kommune.no
- Image
- Kaarasjoki.jpg
- Households
- 19
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- topic's main category
- Category:Karasjok
- native label
- Karasjok kommune
- Commons category
- Karasjok
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Karasjok
- separated from
- Porsanger Municipality
- twinned administrative body
- Lovozero
- language used
- Northern Sami
- inception
- 1866-01-01
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Encyclopedic overview
Karasjok or Kárášjohka (Northern Sami; [ˈkʰaːraːʃˌjohka]) (also: Kven: Kaarasjoki) is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Karasjok. Other villages include Dorvonjárga, Šuoššjávri, and Váljohka.
The 5,453-square-kilometre (2,105 sq mi) municipality is the second largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Karasjok is the 250th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 2,565. The municipality's population density is 0.5 inhabitants per square kilometre (1.3/sq mi) and its population has decreased by 4.9% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Karasjok Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.