Lavangen Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Troms
- District
- Midt-Troms
- Established
- 1 January 1907
- Preceded by
- Ibestad Municipality
- Disestablished
- 1 January 1964
- Succeeded by
- Salangen Municipality
- Re established
- 1 January 1977
- Administrative centre
- Tennevoll
- Mayor 2019
- Hege Beathe Myrseth Rollmoen ( Sp )
- Total
- 301.62 km (116.46 sq mi)
- Land
- 296.07 km (114.31 sq mi)
- Water
- 5.55 km (2.14 sq mi) 1.8%
- Rank
- # 266 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 1,457.49 m (4,781.8 ft)
- Density
- 3.3/km (8.5/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- −2.8%
- Demonym
- Lavangsværing
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Norway
- Demonym
- lavangsværing
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Troms
- Official language
- Northern Sami
- Population
- 1002
- Area
- 0.09
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Ibestad Municipality
- Official website
- www.lavangen.kommune.no
- Image
- Lavangen from Skavneskollen.jpg
- Households
- 4
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- Commons category
- Lavangen
- topic's main category
- Category:Lavangen
- native label
- Loabák
- language used
- Northern Sami
- inception
- 1977-01-01
- separated from
- Salangen Municipality
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Encyclopedic overview
Lavangen (Norwegian) or Loabák (Northern Sami) is a municipality in Troms county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Tennevoll. Other villages in Lavangen include Fossbakken and Spansdalen (in the inland areas) and Kjeiprød, Røkenes, Låternes, Tennevoll, Hesjevika, Soløy, and Å (surrounding the fjord).
The 302-square-kilometre (117 sq mi) municipality is the 266th largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Lavangen is the 335th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 986. The municipality's population density is 3.3 inhabitants per square kilometre (8.5/sq mi) and its population has decreased by 2.8% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lavangen Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.