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Lebesby Municipality

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municipality in Finnmark, Norway

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 )

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Research organization · ROR

Type
Government
Location
Kjøllefjord, Norway
Status
Active

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Wikidata facts

Country
Norway
Located in
Finnmark
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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