Lyngen Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Troms
- District
- Nord-Troms
- Established
- 1 Jan 1838
- Created as
- Formannskapsdistrikt
- Administrative centre
- Lyngseidet
- Mayor 2023
- Eirik Larsen ( Local list )
- Total
- 812.70 km (313.79 sq mi)
- Land
- 795.12 km (307.00 sq mi)
- Water
- 17.58 km (6.79 sq mi) 2.2%
- Rank
- # 141 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 1,834 m (6,017 ft)
- Density
- 3.4/km (8.8/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- −8.3%
- Demonym
- Lyngsfjerding
- Norwegian form
- Neutral
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Norway
- Demonym
- lyngsværing
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Troms og Finnmark
- Capital
- Lyngseidet
- Population
- 2732
- Area
- 0.38
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Tromsø Municipality
- Official website
- www.lyngen.kommune.no
- Image
- Lyngseidet-kjosen-lyngen-alps.jpg
- Households
- 33
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- Commons category
- Lyngen
- topic's main category
- Category:Lyngen
- category for people born here
- Category:People from Lyngen
- language used
- Nynorsk
- inception
- 1837-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Lyngen (Northern Sami: Ivgu; Kven: Yykeä) is a municipality in Troms county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Lyngseidet. Other notable villages include Furuflaten, Lattervika, Nord-Lenangen, and Svensby.
The 813-square-kilometre (314 sq mi) municipality is the 141st largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Lyngen is the 242nd most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 2,743. The municipality's population density is 3.4 inhabitants per square kilometre (8.8/sq mi) and its population has decreased by 8.3% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lyngen Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.