Kautokeino Municipality
Kautokeino kommune Guovdageainnu suohkan | |
---|---|
Coordinates: 69°00′42″N 23°02′36″E / 69.01167°N 23.04333°E | |
Country | Norway |
County | Finnmark |
Established | 1851 |
• Preceded by | Kistrand Municipality |
Administrative centre | Kautokeino |
Government | |
• Mayor (2023) | Anders S. Buljo (LL) |
Area | |
• Total | 9,707.35 km2 (3,748.03 sq mi) |
• Land | 8,967.38 km2 (3,462.32 sq mi) |
• Water | 739.97 km2 (285.70 sq mi) 7.6% |
• Rank | #1 in Norway |
Highest elevation | 973.9 m (3,195.2 ft) |
Population (2024) | |
• Total | 2,848 |
• Rank | #236 in Norway |
• Density | 0.3/km2 (0.8/sq mi) |
• Change (10 years) | −2.8% |
Demonym | Kautokeinoværing[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-5612[4] |
Website | Official website |
Kautokeino (Norwegian: Kautokeino; Northern Sami: Guovdageaidnu [ˈkuo̯vːtaˌkea̯jːtnuː];[5] Kven: Koutokeino; Finnish: Koutokeino) is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Guovdageaidnu/Kautokeino. Other villages include Láhpoluoppal and Máze.
The 9,707-square-kilometre (3,748 sq mi) municipality is the largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Kautokeino is the 236th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 2,848. The municipality's population density is 0.3 inhabitants per square kilometre (0.78/sq mi) and its population has decreased by 2.8% over the previous 10-year period.[6][7]
Guovdageainnu Municipality (Kautokeino) is one of two cultural centers of Northern Sápmi today (the other being the neighboring Kárášjoga Municipality). The most significant industries are reindeer herding, theatre/movie industry, and the public education system. Kautokeino is one of the coldest places in the Nordics.
sami name
was invoked but never defined (see the help page).