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Hammerfest
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Hammerfest is a municipality located in Finnmark, a county in northern Norway. It is notable as one of the northernmost municipalities in Norway and serves as an important settlement in the Arctic region.
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- Instance of
- municipality of Norway
- Demonym
- hámmárfeastalaš
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Finnmark
- Capital
- Hammerfest
- Population
- 11391
- Area
- 0.93
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Måsøy Municipality
- Official website
- hammerfest.kommune.no
- Image
- Hammerfest Juni 2005.jpg
- Households
- 364
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- twinned administrative body
- Kola
- topic's main category
- Category:Hammerfest
- Commons category
- Hammerfest
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Hammerfest
- category for people born here
- Q24801108
- described by source
- The Nuttall Encyclopædia
- inception
- 1789-07-17
- different from
- Hammerfest
- language used
- Nynorsk
- native label
- Hammerfest
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Encyclopedic overview
Hammerfest (pronunciation; Northern Sami: Hámmerfeasta [ˈhaːmmerˌfea̯sːta]) is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality being the town of Hammerfest which is considered the northernmost town in the world with more than 5,000 inhabitants. Some of the main villages in the municipality include Rypefjord, Kvalsund, Forsøl, Hønsebybotn, Akkarfjord i Kvaløya, Akkarfjord i Sørøya, and Kårhamn.
The 2,693-square-kilometre (1,040 sq mi) municipality is the 19th largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Hammerfest is the 103rd most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 11,338. The municipality's population density is 4.2 inhabitants per square kilometre (11/sq mi) and its population has increased by 0% over the previous 10-year period.
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