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Alta (Norwegian; pronounced [ˈɑ̂ɫtɑ] ⓘ), Áltá (Northern Sami), or Alattio [4] is a town [1] in Alta Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The town is the administrative centre of the municipality and the major commercial centre in the western part of the county.
Alta is the 59th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 21,708. The municipality's population density is 5.6 inhabitants per square kilometre (15/sq mi) and its population has increased by 9.5% over the previous 10-year period.
This is a list of urban areas in Norway by population, with population numbers as of 1 January 2024.. Statistics Norway, the governmental organisation with the task of measuring the Norwegian population, uses the term tettsted (literally "dense place"; meaning urban settlement or urban area), which is defined as a continuous built-up area with a maximum distance of 50 metres (160 ft) between ...
In 1999, the municipal council of Bardu Municipality declared city status for Setermoen, only to be rejected because the municipality fell short of the population limit. One exception is Honningsvåg in Nordkapp Municipality , where the municipality actually has less than 5,000 inhabitants but declared city status before the limit was ...
It is a suburb to the southeast of the town of Alta. The river Tverrelva runs through the valley and village area. [4] The 0.37-square-kilometre (91-acre) village has a population (2023) of 457 and a population density of 1,235 inhabitants per square kilometre (3,200/sq mi). [1] The Tverrelvdalen IL sports club is based here.
Alta Church, a church in Alta Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway; Alta Museum, a museum in Alta Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway; Altaelva (lit. ' Alta River '), a river in Alta Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway Alta controversy, a series of protests over Sámi rights and dam on the Altaelva
Northern Norway (Bokmål: Nord-Norge, Urban East Norwegian: [ˈnûːrˌnɔrɡə], Nynorsk: Nord-Noreg; Northern Sami: Davvi-Norga) is a geographical region of Norway, consisting of the three northernmost counties Nordland, Troms and Finnmark, in total about 35% of the Norwegian mainland.
During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee. On 1 January 1964, the neighboring municipalities of Talvik (population: 3,266) and Alta (population: 6,629) were merged to form a new, larger Alta Municipality .