Tana Municipality
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Tana kommune Deanu gielda |
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 Tana within Finnmark |
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| Coordinates: 70°11′58″N 28°11′9″E / 70.19944°N 28.18583°ECoordinates: 70°11′58″N 28°11′9″E / 70.19944°N 28.18583°E | |||
| Country | Norway | ||
| County | Finnmark | ||
| District | Øst-Finnmark | ||
| Administrative centre | Tana Bru | ||
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| • 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 ( from last year) |
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| • 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 |
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| Website | www |
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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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