Sør-Varanger Municipality
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Sør-Varanger kommune Mátta-Várjjaga gielda Etelä-Varengin komuuni |
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 Sør-Varanger within Finnmark |
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| Coordinates: 69°43′43″N 30°02′30″E / 69.72861°N 30.04167°ECoordinates: 69°43′43″N 30°02′30″E / 69.72861°N 30.04167°E | |||
| Country | Norway | ||
| County | Finnmark | ||
| District | Øst-Finnmark | ||
| Administrative centre | Kirkenes | ||
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| • Mayor (2015) | Rune Gjertin Rafaelsen (Ap) | ||
| Area | |||
| • Total | 3,971.58 km2 (1,533.44 sq mi) | ||
| • Land | 3,458.68 km2 (1,335.40 sq mi) | ||
| • Water | 512.90 km2 (198.03 sq mi) | ||
| Area rank | 6 in Norway | ||
| Population (2017) | |||
| • Total | 10,199 (  from last year) |
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| • Rank | 113 in Norway | ||
| • Density | 2.9/km2 (8/sq mi) | ||
| • Change (10 years) | 7.5 % | ||
| Demonym(s) | Varangværing | ||
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | ||
| ISO 3166 code | NO-2030 | ||
| Official language form | Bokmål | ||
| Website | www |
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Sør-Varanger (Northern Sami: Máttá-Várjjat, Kven: Etelä-Varenki, Finnish: Etelä-Varanki, Russian: Сёр-Вара́нгер) is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Kirkenes. Other settlements in the municipality include the villages of Bjørnevatn, Bugøynes, Elvenes, Grense Jakobselv, Hesseng, Jakobsnes, Neiden, and Sandnes. Located west of the Norway–Russia border, Sør-Varanger is the only Norwegian municipality that shares a land border with Russia, with the only legal border crossing at Storskog.
The 3,972-square-kilometre (1,534 sq mi) municipality is the 6th largest by area out of the 426 municipalities in Norway. Sør-Varanger is the 113th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 10,199. The municipality's population density is 2.9 inhabitants per square kilometre (7.5/sq mi) and its population has increased by 7.5% over the last decade.
The meaning of the name Sør-Varanger comes from the name of the large Varangerfjorden (Old Norse: Ver(j)angr) on the northern shore of the municipality. The first part is ver meaning "fishing village" and the last part is angr which means "fjord". It was first probably used for the narrow fjord on the inside of Angsnes which now is called "Meskfjorden" and leads into Varangerbotn. Sør means "south" in Norwegian. Prior to 1918, the name was spelled Sydvaranger (also meaning "South Varanger"). Before 1964, there also was a municipality named Nord-Varanger, located north of the Varangerfjorden, covering most of present-day Vadsø municipality.
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