Tjeldsund (municipality)

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Tjeldsund municipality coat of arms
Tjeldsund (Norway)
Tjeldsund
Tjeldsund
Basic data
Commune number : 5412
Province  (county) : Troms and Finnmark
Administrative headquarters: Evenskjer
Coordinates : 68 ° 33 '  N , 16 ° 21'  E Coordinates: 68 ° 33 '  N , 16 ° 21'  E
Surface: 814.33 km²
Residents: 4,216  (Feb 27, 2020)
Population density : 5 inhabitants per km²
Language form : Bokmål
Website:
politics
Mayor : Helene Berg Nilsen  ( Ap ) (2019)
Located in the province of Troms and Finnmark
Location of the municipality in the province of Troms og Finnmark

Tjeldsund ( North Sami Dielddanuorri ) is a Norwegian municipality in the province ( Fylke ) Troms og Finnmark . As part of the municipal reform in Norway , the two municipalities of Tjeldsund in the province of Nordland and Skånland in Troms were merged under the name Tjeldsund as a new municipality in the new province of Troms og Finnmark on January 1, 2020 . Evenskjer, the former center of the more populous municipality of Skånland, was chosen as the administrative seat of the municipality. (The administrative seat of the former municipality of Tjeldsund in Nordland was Hol).

The name of the municipality is derived from the sound of Tjeldsund , which separates Norway's largest island, Hinnøya , from the mainland and the island of Tjeldøya .

In the municipality there is Norges Brannskole (NBSK), a training center for firefighters with an attached boarding school.

coat of arms

Description : A blue cross of St. Anthony in silver .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Statistisk sentralbyrå - Befolkning