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Tysfjord
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Nordland
- District
- Ofoten
- Established
- 1 Jan 1869
- Preceded by
- Lødingen Municipality
- Disestablished
- 1 Jan 2020
- Succeeded by
- Hamarøy Municipality , & Narvik Municipality
- Administrative centre
- Kjøpsvik
- Mayor 2011 2019
- Tor Asgeir Johansen ( Ap )
- Total
- 1,463.76 km (565.16 sq mi)
- Land
- 1,358.18 km (524.40 sq mi)
- Water
- 105.58 km (40.76 sq mi) 7.2%
- Rank
- # 56 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 1,520 m (4,990 ft)
- Density
- 1.3/km (3.4/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- −5.9%
- Demonym
- Tysfjerding
- Norwegian form
- Neutral
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Encyclopedic overview
Tysfjord (Norwegian) or Divtasvuodna (Lule Sami) is a former municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1869 until its dissolution in 2020. The area is now part of Narvik Municipality and Hamarøy Municipality in the traditional district of Ofoten. Its administrative centre was the village of Kjøpsvik. Other villages in Tysfjord included Drag, Hundholmen, Korsnes, Musken, Rørvika, Skarberget, and Storå.
There is a very large population of Lule Sami people in the area, and the Árran Lule Sami Center is in the village of Drag. With the Norwegian language and Lule Sami language both as official languages of the municipality, Tysfjord was the only municipality in Norway where speakers of Lule Sami should theoretically have been able to speak that language with officials, although this did not come completely to fruition.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tysfjord” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.