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Kautokeino Municipality

Kautokeino kommune
Guovdageainnu suohkan
Municipality
Guovdageaidnu.jpg
Coat of arms of Kautokeino kommune
Coat of arms
Official logo of Kautokeino kommune
Finnmark within
Norway
Kautokeino within Finnmark
Kautokeino within Finnmark
Coordinates: 69°0′42″N 23°2′36″E / 69.01167°N 23.04333°E / 69.01167; 23.04333Coordinates: 69°0′42″N 23°2′36″E / 69.01167°N 23.04333°E / 69.01167; 23.04333
Country Norway
County Finnmark
Administrative centre Kautokeino
Government
 • Mayor (2015) Johan Vasara (Ap)
Area
 • Total 9,707.35 km2 (3,748.03 sq mi)
 • Land 8,970.28 km2 (3,463.44 sq mi)
 • Water 737.07 km2 (284.58 sq mi)
Area rank 1 in Norway
Population (2014)
 • Total 2,931 (Increase from last year)
 • Rank 274 in Norway
 • Density 0.30/km2 (0.8/sq mi)
 • Change (10 years) -2.4 %
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 • Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
ISO 3166 code NO-2011
Official language form Bokmål and Sami
Website www.kautokeino.kommune.no
Data from Statistics Norway

About this sound Kautokeino  (Norwegian) or Guovdageaidnu (Northern Sami) (also: Finnish: Koutokeino and Kven: Koutokeino) is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Guovdageaidnu/Kautokeino. Other villages include Láhpoluoppal and Máze.

Guovdageaidnu-Kautokeino is one of two cultural centers of Northern Sápmi today (other being Kárášjohka-Karasjok). The most significant industries are reindeer herding, theatre/movie industry, and the public education system.

The municipality of Kautokeino was established in 1851 when the southern part of the old Kistrand municipality was separated to form this new municipality. Initially, there were 869 residents in the new municipality.

The first element in Guovdageaidnu is guovda which means "middle" or "half" and the last element is geaidnu which means "road". Combined it means "half way", since the location is half way between two traditional migrating points. It is also the geographic centre of Northern Sápmi. Kautokeino is a Finnicized form of the Sámi name Guovdageaidnu, and it is also used by Norwegians.


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