Måsøy Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Finnmark
- District
- Vest-Finnmark
- Established
- 1 January 1838 ( 1838-01-01 )
- Created as
- Formannskapsdistrikt
- Administrative centre
- Havøysund
- Mayor 2023
- Ingrid Majala ( LL )
- Total
- 1,137.19 km (439.07 sq mi)
- Land
- 1,068.39 km (412.51 sq mi)
- Water
- 68.80 km (26.56 sq mi) 6.1%
- Rank
- # 96 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 633.7 m (2,079 ft)
- Density
- 1/km (2.6/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- −10.3%
- Demonym
- Måsøying
- Norwegian form
- Bokmål
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Informasjon om kommunale tjenenester og ytelser fra Måsøy kommune
Informasjon om kommunale tjenenester og ytelser fra Måsøy kommune
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Norway
- Demonym
- måsøyværing
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Finnmark
- Capital
- Havøysund
- Official language
- Bokmål
- Population
- 1089
- Area
- 0.08
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Hammerfest
- Official website
- www.masoy.kommune.no
- Image
- Havøysund winter.jpg
- Households
- 26
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- Commons category
- Måsøy
- topic's main category
- Category:Måsøy
- inception
- 1839-00-00
- language used
- Bokmål
- separated from
- Hammerfest
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
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Encyclopedic overview
Måsøy (Northern Sami: Muosát; Kven: Moseija) is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Havøysund. Other villages include Bakfjord, Gunnarnes, Ingøy, Måsøy, Slåtten, and Snefjord. The municipality is located on the mainland as well as several islands.
The 1,137-square-kilometre (439 sq mi) municipality is the 96th largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Måsøy is the 328th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 1,113. The municipality's population density is 1 inhabitant per square kilometre (2.6/sq mi) and its population has decreased by 10.3% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Måsøy Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.