Lebesby Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Finnmark
- District
- Øst-Finnmark
- Established
- 1 Jan 1838
- Created as
- Formannskapsdistrikt
- Administrative centre
- Kjøllefjord
- Mayor 2019
- Sigurd Rafaelsen ( Ap )
- Total
- 3,460.50 km (1,336.11 sq mi)
- Land
- 3,230.88 km (1,247.45 sq mi)
- Water
- 229.62 km (88.66 sq mi) 6.6%
- Rank
- # 8 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 1,066.8 m (3,500 ft)
- Density
- 0.4/km (1.0/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- −9.4%
- Demonym
- Lebesbyværing
- Norwegian form
- Bokmål
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Government
- Location
- Kjøllefjord, Norway
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.458245.a
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Norway
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Finnmark
- Capital
- Kjøllefjord
- Population
- 1249
- Area
- 0.28
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Porsanger Municipality
- Official website
- www.lebesby.kommune.no
- Image
- Lebesby Ifjordfjellet.JPG
- Households
- 44
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- Commons category
- Lebesby
- topic's main category
- Category:Lebesby
- language used
- Bokmål
- inception
- 1838-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Lebesby (Northern Sami: Davvesiida and Kven: Lebespyy) is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Kjøllefjord. Other villages in the municipality include Ifjord, Kunes, Lebesby, and Veidnes.
The 3,460.5-square-kilometre (1,336.1 sq mi) municipality is the 8th largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Lebesby is the 320th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 1,215. The municipality's population density is 0.4 inhabitants per square kilometre (1.0/sq mi) and its population has decreased by 9.4% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lebesby Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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