Lenvik
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Troms
- District
- Midt-Troms
- Established
- 1 Jan 1838
- Created as
- Formannskapsdistrikt
- Disestablished
- 1 Jan 2020
- Succeeded by
- Senja Municipality
- Administrative centre
- Finnsnes
- Mayor 2011 2019
- Geir-Inge Sivertsen ( H )
- Total
- 892.58 km (344.63 sq mi)
- Land
- 848.77 km (327.71 sq mi)
- Water
- 43.81 km (16.92 sq mi) 4.9%
- Rank
- # 126 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 1,202.8 m (3,946 ft)
- Density
- 13.1/km (34/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- +4.2%
- Demonym
- Lenvikværing
- Norwegian form
- Neutral
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Government
- Location
- Finnsnes, Norway
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.458262.f · ISNI 0000 0004 0604 9251
Wikidata facts
- Demonym
- lenvikværing
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Troms
- Capital
- Gibostad
- Population
- 11618
- Area
- 0.7785754951168935
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Head of government
- Geir-Inge Sivertsen
- Shares border with
- Berg Municipality
- Official website
- www.lenvik.kommune.no
- Image
- Trollvika.JPG
- Households
- 133
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- Commons category
- Lenvik
- topic's main category
- Category:Lenvik
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2019-12-31
- inception
- 1837-00-00
- replaced by
- Senja Municipality
- language used
- Nynorsk
- located in the present-day administrative territorial entity
- Senja Municipality
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Encyclopedic overview
Lenvik (Northern Sami: Leaŋgáviika) is a former municipality in Troms county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 2020. The municipality was partly situated on the mainland and partly on the island of Senja in what is now Senja Municipality. The administrative centre was the town of Finnsnes, where the Gisund Bridge connects Senja to the mainland on Norwegian County Road 86. Other villages in the municipality included Aglapsvik, Gibostad, Botnhamn, Fjordgård, Finnfjordbotn, Husøy, Langnes, Laukhella, Silsand, and Rossfjordstraumen.
Prior to its dissolution in 2020, the 893-square-kilometre (345 sq mi) municipality was the 126th largest by area out of the 422 municipalities in Norway. Lenvik Municipality was also the 101st most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 11,679. The municipality's population density was 13.1 inhabitants per square kilometre (34/sq mi) and its population has increased by 4.2% over the previous decade.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lenvik” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.