Salangen Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Troms
- District
- Midt-Troms
- Established
- 1 Jan 1871
- Preceded by
- Ibestad Municipality
- Administrative centre
- Sjøvegan
- Mayor 2023
- Simon Løvhaug ( Sp )
- Total
- 458.07 km (176.86 sq mi)
- Land
- 438.09 km (169.15 sq mi)
- Water
- 19.98 km (7.71 sq mi) 4.4%
- Rank
- # 217 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 1,378.52 m (4,522.7 ft)
- Density
- 4.5/km (12/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- −6.9%
- Demonym
- Salangsværing
- 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
- salangsværing
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Troms
- Capital
- Sjøvegan
- Population
- 2132
- Area
- 0.15
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Ibestad Municipality
- Official website
- www.salangen.kommune.no
- Image
- Sjovegan from Hogfjell.jpg
- Households
- 62
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- Commons category
- Salangen
- topic's main category
- Category:Salangen
- language used
- Nynorsk
- inception
- 1871-01-01
- replaces
- Ibestad Municipality
- separated from
- Ibestad Municipality
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Encyclopedic overview
Salangen is a municipality in Troms county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Sjøvegan, where most of the people in the municipality live. Other villages include Elvenes, Laberget, Salangsverket, and Seljeskogen.
The municipality is situated along the Sagfjorden in south central Troms county. The municipality is mostly coastal areas around the fjord as well as some inland valleys. Salangen is home to the world's northernmost bat population.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Salangen Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.