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The county had a population of 169,610 in 2024. [4] The entire county, which was established in 1866, is located north of the Arctic Circle. The Troms County Municipality is the governing body for the county, elected by the people of Troms, while the Troms county governor is a representative of the King and Government of Norway.
Tromsø is the 12th-most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 78,745. ... which replaced the old Troms county. On 1 January 2024, ...
Tromsø Region is a region in Troms county, Norway. It is centered on the city of Tromsø and consists of two municipalities: Tromsø Municipality (population: 76,974) [1] and Karlsøy Municipality (population: 2,200). [2] The European route E8 passes through the region, and the Tromsø Airport, Langnes, is also located here.
This give the Tromsø metropolitan area a population of nearly 69,000 people. [2] The most populous town in Norway located north of Tromsø is Alta, with a population of 15,931 (2023), making Tromsø a very large city for this vast rural northern part of Norway. It is also the northernmost city in the world with a population exceeding 20,000.
The county numbers are from the official numbering system ISO 3166-2:NO, ... Troms og Finnmark, by merging Finnmark and Troms counties in 2020. Disestablished in 2023 ...
A county (fylke) is the chief local administrative area in Norway. The whole country is divided into 11 counties. A county is also an election area, with popular votes taking place every 4 years. In Troms og Finnmark, the government of the county was the Troms og Finnmark County Municipality.
Since 1963, the county mayor (Norwegian: fylkesordfører) of Troms has been the political leader of the county and the chairperson of the county council.Prior to 1963, the County governor led the council which was made up of all of the mayors of the rural municipalities within the county. [2]
The 11.46-square-kilometre (2,830-acre) city has a population (2023) of 21,289 (31,404 in the Urban area) and a population density of 1,858 inhabitants per square kilometre (4,810/sq mi). [2] It is the second-largest town in Troms county, after the city of Tromsø, and it is the largest town in Central Hålogaland. [7]