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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Finnmark
- District
- Øst-Finnmark
- Established
- 1 Jan 1864
- Preceded by
- Lebesby Municipality
- Administrative centre
- Tana bru
- Mayor 2023
- Jon Erland Balto ( Sp )
- Total
- 4,051.28 km (1,564.21 sq mi)
- Land
- 3,832.70 km (1,479.81 sq mi)
- Water
- 218.58 km (84.39 sq mi) 5.4%
- Rank
- # 5 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 1,066.8 m (3,500 ft)
- Density
- 0.7/km (1.8/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- −2.6%
- Demonym
- Tanaværing
- Norwegian form
- Bokmål
- S mi form
- Northern Sami
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Government
- Founded
- 1864
- Location
- Tana bru, Norway
- Also known as
- Deanu gielda
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.458029.2
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Norway
- Official name
- Tana
- Demonym
- deatnulaš
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Finnmark
- Capital
- Tana bru
- Official language
- Northern Sami
- Population
- 2806
- Area
- 0.63
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Body of water
- Tana
- Head of government
- Helga Pedersen
- Shares border with
- Lebesby Municipality
- Official website
- www.tana.kommune.no
- Image
- Tanaelva River Bridge Tana.jpg
- Households
- 40
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- Commons category
- Tana
- topic's main category
- Category:Tana Municipality
- twinned administrative body
- Tersky District
- native label
- Tana
- inception
- 1864-00-00
- language used
- Northern Sami
- separated from
- Lebesby Municipality
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Encyclopedic overview
Deatnu (Northern Sami) or Tana (Norwegian) is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Tana bru. Among the other villages in the municipality are Austertana, Bonakas, Polmak, Rustefjelbma, and Skiippagurra.
The 4,051-square-kilometre (1,564 sq mi) municipality is the 5th largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Deanu-Tana is the 239th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 2,807. The municipality's population density is 0.7 inhabitants per square kilometre (1.8/sq mi) and its population has decreased by 2.6% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tana Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.