Nesseby Municipality
Nesseby kommune Unjárgga gielda | |
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| Næsseby herred (historic name) | |
 Abelsborg in Nesseby municipality | |
 Flag  Coat of arms | |
 Finnmark within Norway | |
 Nesseby within Finnmark | |
| Coordinates: 70°10′24″N 28°33′13″E / 70.17333°N 28.55361°E | |
| Country | Norway |
| County | Finnmark |
| District | Øst-Finnmark |
| Established | 1839 |
| • Preceded by | Vadsø landdistrikt |
| Administrative centre | Varangerbotn |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2023) | Berit Ranveig Nilssen (LL) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1,437.07 km2 (554.86 sq mi) |
| • Land | 1,365.04 km2 (527.04 sq mi) |
| • Water | 72.03 km2 (27.81 sq mi) 5% |
| • Rank | #62 in Norway |
| Highest elevation | 520 m (1,710 ft) |
| Population (2024) | |
| • Total | 859 |
| • Rank | #344 in Norway |
| • Density | 0.6/km2 (2/sq mi) |
| • Change (10 years) |  −6.5% |
| Demonym | Nessebyværing[2] |
| Official languages | |
| • Norwegian form | Bokmål |
| • Sámi form | Northern Sami |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| ISO 3166 code | NO-5636[4] |
| Website | Official website |
Unjárga (Northern Sami) or Nesseby (Norwegian)[5] (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[6] 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.[7][8]
In popular culture: The municipality has been the main set of movies, as late as the 2020s.[9]
- ^ "Høgaste fjelltopp i kvar kommune" (in Norwegian). Kartverket. 16 January 2024.
- ^ "Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.
- ^ "Forskrift om målvedtak i kommunar og fylkeskommunar" (in Norwegian). Lovdata.no.
- ^ Bolstad, Erik; Thorsnæs, Geir, eds. (26 January 2023). "Kommunenummer". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget.
- ^ "Stadnamn og rettskriving" (in Norwegian). Kartverket. Retrieved 13 July 2018.
- ^ https://snl.no/Grasbakken. Store norske leksikon. Retrieved 2024-06-12
- ^ Statistisk sentralbyrå. "Table: 06913: Population 1 January and population changes during the calendar year (M)" (in Norwegian).
- ^ Statistisk sentralbyrå. "09280: Area of land and fresh water (km²) (M)" (in Norwegian).
- ^ https://www.nrk.no/sapmi/_biru-unjarga_-er-en-av-20-kommende-samiske-filmer-og-tv-serier-1.16720979. NRK.no. Retrieved 2024-07-26