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Tana Municipality

Tana kommune
Deanu gielda
Municipality
Tanaelva River Bridge Tana.jpg
Coat of arms of Tana kommune
Coat of arms
Official logo of Tana kommune
Finnmark within
Norway
Tana within Finnmark
Tana within Finnmark
Coordinates: 70°11′58″N 28°11′9″E / 70.19944°N 28.18583°E / 70.19944; 28.18583Coordinates: 70°11′58″N 28°11′9″E / 70.19944°N 28.18583°E / 70.19944; 28.18583
Country Norway
County Finnmark
District Øst-Finnmark
Administrative centre Tana Bru
Government
 • Mayor (2007) Frank Martin Ingilæ (Ap)
Area
 • Total 4,049.71 km2 (1,563.60 sq mi)
 • Land 3,831.02 km2 (1,479.17 sq mi)
 • Water 218.69 km2 (84.44 sq mi)
Area rank 5 in Norway
Population (2014)
 • Total 2,883 (Decrease from last year)
 • Rank 276 in Norway
 • Density 0.71/km2 (1.8/sq mi)
 • Change (10 years) -4.0 %
Demonym(s) Tanaværing
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 • Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
ISO 3166 code NO-2025
Official language form Northern Sami
and Bokmål
Website www.tana.kommune.no
Data from Statistics Norway

Deatnu (Northern Sami) or Tana (Norwegian) is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Tana Bru. Other villages in the municipality include Austertana, Bonakas, Polmak, Rustefjelbma, and Skiippagurra.

The municipality of Tana was established on 1 January 1864 when the eastern part of the large municipality of Lebesby was separated to become a new municipality with a population of 1,388. The original municipality included all the land on both sides surrounding the Tanafjorden and the Tana River.

On 1 January 1914, the municipality of Tana was divided into three parts. The southern part (population: 1,426) remained as (a smaller) Tana Municipality. The northern part of the municipality was divided by the Tanafjorden with the western side becoming Gamvik Municipality (population: 1,374) and the eastern side becoming Berlevåg Municipality (population: 784). On 1 January 1964, the neighboring municipality of Polmak (population: 1,072), which had separated from Nesseby Municipality on 1 January 1903, was merged into Tana.

Tana is a Norwegianized form of the Sami name Deatnu. The Sami name is identical with the Sami word deatnu which means "great river" or "main river", referring to the main river (Tana River) which runs through the municipality.


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