| Berg kommune | |||
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| Country | Norway | ||
| County | Troms | ||
| Municipality ID | NO-1929 | ||
| Administrative centre | Skaland | ||
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| - Mayor (2003) | Trond Abelson (Ap) | ||
| Area (Nr. ||} Norway is divided into 19 administrative regions called counties ( fylker, singular fylke) and 430 municipalities ( kommuner, cf Norway ( Norwegian: Norge ( Bokmål) or Noreg ( Nynorsk) officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Constitutional ||-||} Norway is divided into 19 administrative regions, called counties ( Norwegian: singular fylke, plural fylker ( Bokmål or Romsa ( Sami language) is a county in North Norway, bordering Finnmark to the northeast and Nordland in the southwest ISO 3166-2NO is an ISO standard which defines Geocodes it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to Norway. Skaland is the administrative centre of Berg municipality Norway. The Norwegian Labour Party ( Norwegian: Det norske arbeiderparti ( DNA) or Arbeiderpartiet ( AP) is a Social democratic Area is a Quantity expressing the two- Dimensional size of a defined part of a Surface, typically a region bounded by a closed Curve. 280 in Norway) | |||
| - Total | 294 km² (113. Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of 5 sq mi) | ||
| - Land | 276 km² (106. The square mile is an imperial and US unit of Area equal the area of a square of one statute mile. 6 sq mi) | ||
| Population (2008) | |||
| - Total | 937 | ||
| - Density | 4/km² (10. Population density (in agriculture standing stock and Standing crop) is a measurement of Population per unit area or unit volume 4/sq mi) | ||
| - Change (10 years) | -14. 3 % | ||
| - Rank in Norway | 407-408 | ||
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | ||
| - Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | ||
| Official language form | Bokmål | ||
| Demonym | Bergsværing[1] | ||
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| Website: www.berg.kommune.no | |||
Berg is a municipality in the county of Troms, Norway. Central European Time ( CET) is one of the names of the Time zone that is 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. UTC+1 is used in the following locations Central European Time West Africa Time Western European Summer Time Daylight saving time ( DST Central European Summer Time ( CEST) is one of the names of UTC+2 Time zone, 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. UTC+2 corresponds to the following Time zones Eastern European Time Egypt Standard Time Central Africa Time Norwegian ( norsk) is a North Germanic Language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is an official language Bokmål (lit "book language" or Dano-Norwegian is the most commonly used of the two official Norwegian written Standard languages the other A demonym or gentilic is a word that denotes the members of a People or the inhabitants of a place Norway ( Norwegian: Norge ( Bokmål) or Noreg ( Nynorsk) officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Constitutional
Berg was established as a municipality January 1, 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). Formannskaps-distrikt was the name for a Norwegian local self-government districts put into force in 1838. Torsken was separated from Berg January 1, 1902. Torsken is a municipality in the county of Troms Norway. The municipality is situated at the western coast of Senja island
The municipality was also the first place in the world to utilize a hydroelectrical powerplant in the miningcommunity of Hamn i Senja. When this mining industry ceased, the "electrical adventure" did as well. The buildings are still to be seen, at Hamn, which is now a very special hotel/lodge.
The municipality faces the Atlantic on the west side of the island of Senja. Senja is the second largest island in Norway (not counting Spitsbergen) The municipal centre is at Skaland. The first female pastor in the Lutheran Church of Norway worked in the parish from 1961 onwards. Lutheranism is a major branch of Western Christianity that identifies with the teachings of the sixteenth-century German reformer Martin Luther The Church of Norway ( Den norske kirke in Bokmål or Den norske kyrkja in Nynorsk) is the state church of Norway
The name
The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old farm Berg (Norse Berg). Old Norse is the North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements during the Viking Age The name is identical with the word berg n 'mountain'.
Coat-of-arms
The coat-of-arms is from modern times (1987). The profile represents the three mountains Trælen, Oksen and Kjølva.
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