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Lavangen Municipality
Lavangen kommune
Loabága suohkan
Municipality
View of Inner Lavangen
View of Inner Lavangen
Flag of Lavangen Municipality
Coat of arms of Lavangen Municipality
Troms within Norway
Troms within Norway
Lavangen within Troms
Lavangen within Troms
Coordinates: 68°39′28″N 17°35′01″E / 68.65778°N 17.58361°E / 68.65778; 17.58361
CountryNorway
CountyTroms
DistrictMidt-Troms
Established1 January 1907
 • Preceded byIbestad Municipality
Disestablished1 January 1964
 • Succeeded bySalangen Municipality
Re-established1 January 1977
 • Preceded bySalangen Municipality
Administrative centreTennevoll
Government
 • Mayor (2019)Hege Beathe Myrseth Rollmoen (Sp)
Area
 • Total301.62 km2 (116.46 sq mi)
 • Land296.07 km2 (114.31 sq mi)
 • Water5.55 km2 (2.14 sq mi)  1.8%
 • Rank#266 in Norway
Population
 (2022)
 • Total970
 • Rank#334 in Norway
 • Density3.3/km2 (9/sq mi)
 • Change (10 years)
Decrease −4.5%
DemonymLavangsværing[1]
Official language
[2]
 • Norwegian formNeutral
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 codeNO-5518[3]
WebsiteOfficial website
Data from Statistics Norway

Lavangen (Norwegian) or Loabák (Northern Sami)[4] is a municipality in Troms county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Tennevoll. Other villages in Lavangen include Fossbakken and Spansdalen (in the inland areas) and Kjeiprød, Røkenes, Låternes, Tennevoll, Hesjevika, Soløy, and Å (surrounding the fjord).

The 302-square-kilometre (117 sq mi) municipality is the 266th largest by area out of the 356 municipalities in Norway. Lavangen is the 334th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 970. The municipality's population density is 3.3 inhabitants per square kilometre (8.5/sq mi) and its population has decreased by 4.5% over the previous 10-year period.[5][6]

  1. ^ "Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.
  2. ^ "Forskrift om målvedtak i kommunar og fylkeskommunar" (in Norwegian). Lovdata.no.
  3. ^ Bolstad, Erik; Thorsnæs, Geir, eds. (26 January 2023). "Kommunenummer". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference sami name was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Statistisk sentralbyrå. "Table: 06913: Population 1 January and population changes during the calendar year (M)" (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 26 May 2020. Retrieved 11 December 2018.
  6. ^ Statistisk sentralbyrå. "09280: Area of land and fresh water (km²) (M)" (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 26 May 2020. Retrieved 11 December 2018.

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