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Nesseby Municipality
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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 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Norway
- Demonym
- nessebyværing
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Finnmark
- Capital
- Varangerbotn
- 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
- P8168
- Ian Liddell-Grainger
- inception
- 1864-00-00
- language used
- Northern Sami
- separated from
- Vadsø
Sources (8)
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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.