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Lenvik

former municipality in Troms, Norway
Organization Municipality Of Norway Q499770

Facts

20 properties

Identity

Instance of
municipality of Norway, former municipality of Norway[5]
Official website
www.lenvik.kommune.no[17]

Status and dates

Inception
1837[14]
Dissolved, abolished or demolished
December 31, 2019[15]
Replaced by
Senja Municipality[20]

Location

Country
Norway[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 69.384°, 17.968°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Troms[2]
More facts +12
Area
0.78 (0–1.6k, n=14)[28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41]
Capital
Finnsnes, Gibostad[6][7]
Demonym
lenvikværing, lenvikværing[27]
Has list
Grunnkretser i Lenvik kommune[42]
Head of government
Geir-Inge Sivertsen[4]
Language used
Bokmål, Nynorsk[43][44]
Located in the present-day administrative territorial entity
Senja Municipality[45]
Number of households
133 (133–5.0k, n=6)[21][22][23][24][25][26]
Office held by the head of government
Mayor of Lenvik[19]
Population
+11618[18]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 11,618 GeoNames 11,207 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
Shares border with
Tromsø Municipality, Balsfjord Municipality, Målselv, Sørreisa Municipality, Tranøy Municipality, Berg Municipality[8][9][10][11][12][13]
Significant event
boundary change, boundary change, boundary change, boundary change, boundary change[16]
🏷️ Also known as
en Lenvik ar لينفيك fa لنویک، نروژ ja レンヴィク ru Ленвик sv Leaŋgáviika suohkan sv Lenvik kommune sv Lenviks kommun uk Ленвік zh 倫維克 zh-hans 伦维克
🔖 Identifiers · 20
ROR ID
05sa5v987
ISNI
0000000406049251
GRID ID
grid.458262.f
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Trollvika.JPG ↗
Freebase ID
/m/018c0b
GNS Unique Feature ID
-268672
GeoNames ID
3147742
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Lenvik, Lenvik_-_tidligere_kommune
INaturalist place ID
40402
KulturNav-ID
c89ae046-cb40-41a1-937b-dab2dfc5391c
Lokalhistoriewiki.no article ID
Lenvik_kommune
MusicBrainz area ID
d40943f6-930d-48cc-8a81-a055853c6193
Show all 20 identifiers +8
Norwegian municipality number
1931
OpenStreetMap relation ID
407758
Ringgold ID
300392
SSR place name number
450694
Scilit organization ID
48909
Topic's main category
Category:Lenvik
Who's on First ID
1159297333
YSO ID
226870
📚 Sources · 1
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🔗 Connections
Contained subdivisions 32
Finnsnes, Malangen, Husøy, Gibostad, Silsand, Fjordgård, Gisund bridge, Gisundet +24 more
Shares border with 6
Tromsø Municipality, Balsfjord Municipality, Målselv, Sørreisa Municipality, Tranøy Municipality, Berg Municipality
← Shares border with 6
Tromsø Municipality, Balsfjord Municipality, Målselv, Sørreisa Municipality, Tranøy Municipality, Berg Municipality
People born here 3
Arvid Hanssen, Alf E. Jakobsen, Irene Lange Nordahl
Capital 2
Finnsnes, Gibostad
Language used 2
Nynorsk, Bokmål
← Capital of 2
Finnsnes, Gibostad
Country 1
Norway
Head of government 1
Geir-Inge Sivertsen
Instance of 1
municipality of Norway
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Troms
Located in the present-day administrative territorial entity 1
Senja Municipality
Located in time zone 1
UTC+01:00
Replaced by 1
Senja Municipality
Topic's main category 1
Category:Lenvik
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Lenvik
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Troms
← Place served by transport hub 1
Bardufoss Air Station
← Replaces 1
Senja Municipality
← Separated from 1
Målselv
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Summary

Lenvik is a municipality of Norway[1].

Related Entities

Norway

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . GRID. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  14. [15] ↑ . kommunal-rapport.no. kommunal-rapport.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . Historisk oversikt over endringer i kommune- og fylkesinndelingen. wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . ssb.no. ssb.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . kommunal-rapport.no. kommunal-rapport.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . Housing conditions for Norway 2018. wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . Housing conditions for Norway 2018. wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . Housing conditions for Norway 2018. wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . Housing conditions for Norway 2018. wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . Housing conditions for Norway 2018. wikidata.org.
  25. [26] ↑ . Housing conditions for Norway 2018. wikidata.org.
  26. [27] ↑ . sprakradet.no. Retrieved . sprakradet.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  27. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  42. [43] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  44. [45] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 15w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → —
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #43521: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
  2. 24w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Shares border with → Tromsø Municipality, Balsfjord Municipality, Målselv +1
    Coordinate location → 69.384°, 17.968°
    Category for maps or plans → Category:Maps of Lenvik
    Dissolved, abolished or demolished → December 31, 2019
    + 19 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed claim qualifiers: YSO ID: 226870, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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