Loppa Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Finnmark
- District
- Vest-Finnmark
- Established
- 1 Jan 1838
- Created as
- Formannskapsdistrikt
- Administrative centre
- Øksfjord
- Mayor 2023
- Cato Kristiansen ( SV )
- Total
- 689.27 km (266.13 sq mi)
- Land
- 671.19 km (259.15 sq mi)
- Water
- 18.08 km (6.98 sq mi) 2.6%
- Rank
- # 167 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 1,191 m (3,907 ft)
- Density
- 1.3/km (3.4/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- −15.9%
- Demonym
- Loppværing
- Norwegian form
- Bokmål
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
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Encyclopedic overview
Loppa (Northern Sami: Láhppi and Kven: Lappea) is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Øksfjord. Other villages in Loppa include Andsnes, Bergsfjord, Langfjordhamn, Loppa, Nuvsvåg, Øksfjordbotn, Sandland, and Sør-Tverrfjord.
The 689-square-kilometre (266 sq mi) municipality is the 167th largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Loppa is the 343rd most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 864. The municipality's population density is 1.3 inhabitants per square kilometre (3.4/sq mi) and its population has decreased by 15.9% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Loppa Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.