Vardø, Norway
| Vardø kommune | |||
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 Vardø within Finnmark |
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| Coordinates: 70°22′14″N 31°01′27″E / 70.37056°N 31.02417°ECoordinates: 70°22′14″N 31°01′27″E / 70.37056°N 31.02417°E | |||
| Country | Norway | ||
| County | Finnmark | ||
| District | Øst-Finnmark | ||
| Administrative centre | Vardø | ||
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| • Mayor (2015) | Robert Jensen (Labour Party (Norway)) | ||
| Area | |||
| • Total | 600.48 km2 (231.85 sq mi) | ||
| • Land | 585.45 km2 (226.04 sq mi) | ||
| • Water | 15.03 km2 (5.80 sq mi) | ||
| Area rank | 183 in Norway | ||
| Population (2014) | |||
| • Total | 2,119 ( from last year) |
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| • Rank | 327 in Norway | ||
| • Density | 3.53/km2 (9.1/sq mi) | ||
| • Change (10 years) | −11.6 % | ||
| Demonym(s) | Vardøværing | ||
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | ||
| ISO 3166 code | NO-2002 | ||
| Official language form | Bokmål | ||
| Website | www |
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Vardø (also Finnish: Vuoreija or Vuorea, Northern Sami: Várggát) is a municipality in Finnmark county in the extreme northeastern part of Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Vardø. The other main settlement in Vardø is the village of Kiberg.
The town of Vardø and the rural district around it was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). The law required that all towns should be separated from their rural districts, but because of a low population and very few voters, this was impossible to carry out for Vardø in 1838. (See also Hammerfest and Vadsø.) The rural district of Vardø (Vardø landdistrikt–renamed Båtsfjord in 1957) was officially separated from the town of Vardø in 1868. Then on 1 January 1964, the eastern part of Båtsfjord was merged with the town of Vardø to create today's Vardø Municipality.
The Old Norse form of the name was Vargøy. The first element is vargr which means "wolf" and the last element is øy which means "island". The first element was later replaced (around 1500) with varða which means "cairn". Historically, the name was spelled Vardöe.
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