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Nesseby Municipality

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Nesseby Municipality

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Also known as Unjárga-Nesseby, Unjárga, Uuniemi, Nesseby

municipality in Finnmark, Norway

Key facts

Country
Norway
County
Finnmark
District
Øst-Finnmark
Preceded by
Vadsø landdistrikt
Administrative centre
Varangerbotn
Mayor 2023
Berit Ranveig Nilssen ( LL )
Total
1,437.07 km (554.86 sq mi)
Land
1,365.04 km (527.04 sq mi)
Water
72.03 km (27.81 sq mi) 5%
Rank
# 62 in Norway
Highest elevation
520 m (1,710 ft)
Density
0.6/km (1.6/sq mi)
Change 10 years
−6.5%
Demonym
Nessebyværing
Norwegian form
Bokmål
S mi form
Northern Sami
Time zone
UTC+01:00 ( CET )
Summer dst
UTC+02:00 ( CEST )

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Wikidata facts

Demonym
nessebyværing
Country
Norway
Located in
Finnmark
Official language
Northern Sami
Population
874
Area
0.14
Time zone
UTC+01:00
Shares border with
Utsjoki
Official website
www.nesseby.kommune.no
Image
Nesseby church.jpg
Households
7
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topic's main category
Category:Nesseby
Commons category
Nesseby
native label
Unjárgga gielda
inception
1864-00-00
language used
Northern Sami
separated from
Vadsø
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Encyclopedic overview

Unjárga (Northern Sami) or Nesseby (Norwegian) (also unofficially Uuniemi in Kven and Finnish) is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Varangerbotn. Other villages in Nesseby include Gandvik, Karlebotn, Nesseby, Grasbakken and Nyelv. The European route E06 and European route E75 highways intersect at Varangerbotn in Nesseby.

The 1,437-square-kilometre (555 sq mi) municipality is the 62nd largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Nesseby is the 344th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 859. The municipality's population density is 0.6 inhabitants per square kilometre (1.6/sq mi) and its population has decreased by 6.5% over the previous 10-year period.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nesseby Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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