Lyngen Municipality
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Vinony's link graph records 136 inbound references to Lyngen Municipality, and connects out to Troms, tincture and Lyngen.
The entry is geolocated on the map in NO.
It is catalogued under topics including 1838 establishments in Norway, Lyngen Municipality and Municipalities of Troms.
Vinony links it to 33 Wikipedia language editions.
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.