Porsanger Municipality
Sign in to saveAlso known as Porsáŋgu, Porsanki, Porsangin komuuni, Porsáŋggu gielda, Porsanger
municipality in Finnmark, Norway
Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Finnmark
- District
- Vest-Finnmark
- Established
- 1 Jan 1838
- Administrative centre
- Lakselv
- Mayor 2023
- Jo Inge Hesjevik ( H )
- Total
- 4,874.29 km (1,881.97 sq mi)
- Land
- 4,640.92 km (1,791.87 sq mi)
- Water
- 233.37 km (90.10 sq mi) 4.8%
- Rank
- # 3 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 1,138.9 m (3,737 ft)
- Density
- 0.8/km (2.1/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- −1.9%
- Demonyms
- Porsangværing, Porsangerværing
- Norwegian form
- Bokmål
- S mi form
- Northern Sami
- Other language
- Kven
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Government
- Founded
- 1838
- Location
- Lakselv, Norway
- Also known as
- Porsangin Komuuni, Porsáŋggu Gielda
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.458690.6
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Norway
- Official name
- Porsanki
- Demonym
- porsangværing
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Finnmark
- Capital
- Lakselv
- Official language
- Norwegian
- Population
- 3906
- Area
- 2.93
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Hammerfest
- Official website
- www.porsanger.kommune.no
- Image
- Lakselv.JPG
- Households
- 6
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- Commons category
- Porsanger
- topic's main category
- Category:Porsanger Municipality
- native label
- Porsáŋggu gielda
- inception
- 1838-00-00
- replaces
- Kistrand
- language used
- Northern Sami
- maximum temperature record
- 32.5
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Encyclopedic overview
Porsanger (Northern Sami: Porsáŋgu; Kven: Porsanki) is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Lakselv. Other villages in the municipality include Børselv, Brenna, Indre Billefjord, Kistrand, Olderfjord, and Skoganvarre.
The 4,874-square-kilometre (1,882 sq mi) municipality is the 3rd largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Porsanger is the 208th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 3,889 (many of whom have a Kven (Kainu) or Sami background). The municipality's population density is 0.8 inhabitants per square kilometre (2.1/sq mi) and its population has decreased by 1.9% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Porsanger Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.