Kvalsund
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Finnmark
- District
- Vest-Finnmark
- Established
- 1 July 1869
- Preceded by
- Hammerfest landdistrikt
- Disestablished
- 1 Jan 2020
- Succeeded by
- Hammerfest Municipality
- Administrative centre
- Kvalsund
- Mayor 2015 2019
- Terje Wikstrøm ( Ap )
- Total
- 1,844.29 km (712.08 sq mi)
- Land
- 1,739.35 km (671.57 sq mi)
- Water
- 104.94 km (40.52 sq mi) 5.7%
- Rank
- # 37 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 986 m (3,235 ft)
- Density
- 0.6/km (1.6/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- −5.4%
- Demonym
- Kvalsundværing
- Norwegian form
- Bokmål
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Encyclopedic overview
Kvalsund (Northern Sami: Fálesnuorri and Kven: Valasnuora) is a former municipality in Finnmark county in Norway. The area is now part of Hammerfest Municipality. The municipality existed from 1869 until its dissolution in 2020. The administrative centre of the municipality was the village of Kvalsund. Other villages in the municipality included Áisaroaivi, Kokelv, Oldernes, Oldervik, Revsneshamn, Skaidi.
At the time of its dissolution on 1 January 2020, the 1,844-square-kilometre (712 sq mi) municipality was the 37th largest by area out of the 422 municipalities in Norway. Kvalsund was also the 394th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 988. The municipality's population density was 0.5 inhabitants per square kilometre (1.3/sq mi) and its population had decreased by 5.4% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kvalsund” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.