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Porsanger

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Porsanger (Norwegian) or Porsáŋgu (Northern Sami) or Porsanki (Kven/Finnish) is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. [1]

95 relations: Administrative centre, Banak, Norway, Børselv, Børselv Church, Børselva, Bird, Bokmål, Brenna Chapel, Brenna, Finnmark, Church of Norway, Coat of arms, Counties of Norway, Deanery, Diocese of Nord-Hålogaland, Economic development, Empetrum nigrum, Famine, Finland, Finnish language, Finnmark, Finnmark Dagblad, Fishing, Fjord, Forest, Formannskapsdistrikt, Garrison, Garrison of Porsanger, Gákkajávri, Grape, Hålogaland Court of Appeal, Health care, Indre Finnmark District Court, Island, Karasjok, Kautokeino, Kirkenes, Kistrand, Kistrand Church, Kjæsvannet, Kunnskapsforlaget, Kven language, Kven people, Labour Party (Norway), Lakselv, Lakselv Airport, Banak, Lakselv Church, Lakselva, List of churches in Finnmark, List of municipalities of Norway, Mayor, ..., Midnight sun, Municipal council, Nordkapp, Northern Norway, Northern Sami, Norway, Norwegian Army, Norwegian language, Old age, Old Norse, Olderfjord, Pine, Pine grosbeak, Polar night, Political party, Population density, Porsanger Peninsula, Porsangerfjorden, Primary education, Red knot, Reindeer, Rhododendron tomentosum, Road, Royal Norwegian Air Force, Salmon, Sami people, Ságat, Skoganvarre, Skoganvarre Chapel, Social work, Stabbursdalen National Park, Stabburselva, Station Group Banak, Statistics Norway, Store norske leksikon, Sværholt Peninsula, Tromsø, Unemployment, War, Waterfall, Wetland, Widerøe, Winery, Woodland, Zoning. Expand index (45 more) »

Administrative centre

An administrative centre is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune is located.

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Banak, Norway

Banak is a small peninsula in Porsanger Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway.

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Børselv

Børselv is a village in Porsanger Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway.

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Børselv Church

Børselv Church (Børselv kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Porsanger Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway.

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Børselva

Børselva is a river in Porsanger Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway.

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Bird

Birds, also known as Aves, are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.

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Bokmål

Bokmål (literally "book tongue") is an official written standard for the Norwegian language, alongside Nynorsk.

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Brenna Chapel

Brenna Chapel (Brenna kapell) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Porsanger Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway.

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Brenna, Finnmark

Brenna (Breannjá; Prännä) is a village in Porsanger Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway.

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Church of Norway

The Church of Norway (Den norske kirke in Bokmål and Den norske kyrkja in Nynorsk) is a Lutheran denomination of Protestant Christianity that serves as the people's church of Norway, as set forth in the Constitution of Norway.

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Coat of arms

A coat of arms is a heraldic visual design on an escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard.

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Counties of Norway

Norway is divided into 18 administrative regions, called counties (singular fylke, plural fylker (Bokmål) / fylke (Nynorsk) from Old Norse: fylki from the word "folk"); until 1918, they were known as amter.

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Deanery

A deanery (or decanate) is an ecclesiastical entity in the Roman Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion, the Evangelical Church in Germany, and the Church of Norway.

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Diocese of Nord-Hålogaland

Nord-Hålogaland (Nord-Hålogaland bispedømme) is a diocese in the Church of Norway.

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Economic development

economic development wikipedia Economic development is the process by which a nation improves the economic, political, and social well-being of its people.

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Empetrum nigrum

Empetrum nigrum, crowberry, black crowberry, or, in western Alaska, blackberry, is a flowering plant species in the heather family Ericaceae with a near circumboreal distribution in the northern hemisphere.

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Famine

A famine is a widespread scarcity of food, caused by several factors including war, inflation, crop failure, population imbalance, or government policies.

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Finland

Finland (Suomi; Finland), officially the Republic of Finland is a country in Northern Europe bordering the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, and Gulf of Finland, between Norway to the north, Sweden to the northwest, and Russia to the east.

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Finnish language

Finnish (or suomen kieli) is a Finnic language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside Finland.

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Finnmark

Finnmark (italic; Finnmark; Фи́ннмарк, Fínnmark) is a county ("fylke") in the extreme northeastern part of Norway.

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Finnmark Dagblad

Finnmark Dagblad is a Norwegian daily newspaper, published in Hammerfest, Norway.

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Fishing

Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish.

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Fjord

Geologically, a fjord or fiord is a long, narrow inlet with steep sides or cliffs, created by a glacier.

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Forest

A forest is a large area dominated by trees.

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Formannskapsdistrikt

Formannskapsdistrikt is the name for Norwegian local self-government districts that were legally enacted on 1 January 1838.

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Garrison

Garrison (various spellings) (from the French garnison, itself from the verb garnir, "to equip") is the collective term for a body of troops stationed in a particular location, originally to guard it, but now often simply using it as a home base.

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Garrison of Porsanger

The Garrison of Porsanger (Garnisonen i Porsanger), based at Porsangmoen in Porsanger, is the world's northernmost military garrison at 70 degrees northern latitude, located in the Norwegian county of Finnmark.

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Gákkajávri

Gákkajávri is a lake that lies in Porsanger Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway.

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Grape

A grape is a fruit, botanically a berry, of the deciduous woody vines of the flowering plant genus Vitis.

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Hålogaland Court of Appeal

The Hålogaland Court of Appeal (Hålogaland lagmannsrett) is one of six courts of appeal in the Kingdom of Norway.

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Health care

Health care or healthcare is the maintenance or improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in human beings.

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Indre Finnmark District Court

Indre Finnmark District Court (Øst-Finnmark tingrett or Sis-Finnmárkku diggegoddi) is a district court located in the village of Tana Bru in Finnmark county, Norway.

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Island

An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water.

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Karasjok

Karasjok or Kárášjohka (Northern Sami) or Kaarasjoki (Finnish) is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway.

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Kautokeino

(Norwegian) or Guovdageaidnu (Northern Sami) (also: Koutokeino and Koutokeino) is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway.

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Kirkenes

(Finnish and, Киркенес) is a town in Sør-Varanger Municipality in Finnmark county, in the far northeastern part of Norway.

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Kistrand

Kistrand (Čuđegieddi; Ryssämarkka) is a village in Porsanger Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway.

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Kistrand Church

Kistrand Church (Kistrand kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Porsanger Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway.

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Kjæsvannet

Kjæsvannet (Keaisajávri or Stuorrajávri) is a lake on the border of the municipalities of Porsanger and Lebesby in Finnmark county, Norway.

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Kunnskapsforlaget

Kunnskapsforlaget is a Norwegian publishing company based in Oslo that concentrates on encyclopedias, encyclopedic books, textbooks, and dictionaries.

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Kven language

The Kven language (kvääni or kväänin kieli; kainu or kainun kieli) is a Finnish dialect spoken in northern Norway by the Kven people.

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Kven people

Kvens (Kven/Finnish: kveeni, Norwegian: kvener, Swedish: kväner, Northern Sami: kveanat) are a Finnic ethnic minority in Norway who are descended from Finnish peasants and fishermen who emigrated from the northern parts of Finland and Sweden to Northern Norway in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Labour Party (Norway)

The Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet, A/Ap), formerly the Norwegian Labour Party, is a social-democratic political party in Norway.

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Lakselv

(Leavdnja; Lemmijoki) is the largest village and administrative centre of Porsanger Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway.

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Lakselv Airport, Banak

Lakselv Airport, Banak (Lakselv lufthavn, Banak) is an international airport located at Banak, north of Lakselv, in the municipality of Porsanger, Finnmark county, Norway.

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Lakselv Church

Lakselv Church (Lakselv kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Porsanger Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway.

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Lakselva

Lakselva (Leavdnjajohka; Lemmijoki) is a river in Finnmark county in northern Norway.

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List of churches in Finnmark

This list of churches in Finnmark is a list of the Church of Norway churches in Finnmark county, Norway.

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List of municipalities of Norway

Norway is divided into 18 administrative regions, called counties (fylker in Norwegian, singular: fylke), and 422 municipalities (kommuner/-ar, singular: kommune – cf. communes).

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Mayor

In many countries, a mayor (from the Latin maior, meaning "bigger") is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town.

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Midnight sun

The midnight sun is a natural phenomenon that occurs in the summer months in places north of the Arctic Circle or south of the Antarctic Circle, when the sun remains visible at the local midnight.

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Municipal council

A municipal council is the local government of a municipality such as city councils and town councils.

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Nordkapp

Nordkapp (North Cape; Davvinjárga or Nordkáhppa; Kappa or Nordkappa) is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway.

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Northern Norway

Northern Norway (Nord-Norge, Nord-Noreg; Davvi-Norga) is a geographical region of Norway, consisting of the three northernmost counties Nordland, Troms and Finnmark, in total about 35% of the Norwegian mainland.

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Northern Sami

Northern or North Sami (davvisámegiella; disapproved exonym Lappish or Lapp), sometimes also simply referred to as Sami, is the most widely spoken of all Sami languages.

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Norway

Norway (Norwegian: (Bokmål) or (Nynorsk); Norga), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a unitary sovereign state whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the remote island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard.

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Norwegian Army

Norway achieved full independence in 1905, and in the first century of its short life has contributed to three major conflicts, World War II, the Cold War and the War on Terror.

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Norwegian language

Norwegian (norsk) is a North Germanic language spoken mainly in Norway, where it is the official language.

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Old age

Old age refers to ages nearing or surpassing the life expectancy of human beings, and is thus the end of the human life cycle.

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Old Norse

Old Norse was a North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements from about the 9th to the 13th century.

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Olderfjord

Olderfjord (Leaibevuotna; Leipovuono) is a village in Porsanger Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway.

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Pine

A pine is any conifer in the genus Pinus,, of the family Pinaceae.

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Pine grosbeak

The pine grosbeak (Pinicola enucleator) is a large member of the true finch family, Fringillidae.

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Polar night

The polar night occurs in the northernmost and southernmost regions of the Earth when the night lasts for more than 24 hours.

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Political party

A political party is an organised group of people, often with common views, who come together to contest elections and hold power in government.

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Population density

Population density (in agriculture: standing stock and standing crop) is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume; it is a quantity of type number density.

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Porsanger Peninsula

The Porsanger Peninsula (Porsangerhalvøya) is a peninsula in Finnmark county, Norway.

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Porsangerfjorden

The Porsangerfjorden (Porsanger Fjord; Porsáŋgguvuotna; Porsanginvuono) is a fjord in Finnmark county, Norway.

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Primary education

Primary education and elementary education is typically the first stage of formal education, coming after preschool and before secondary education (The first two grades of primary school, Grades 1 and 2, are also part of early childhood education).

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Red knot

The red knot (Calidris canutus) (just knot in English-speaking Europe) is a medium-sized shorebird which breeds in tundra and the Arctic Cordillera in the far north of Canada, Europe, and Russia.

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Reindeer

The reindeer (Rangifer tarandus), also known as the caribou in North America, is a species of deer with circumpolar distribution, native to Arctic, sub-Arctic, tundra, boreal and mountainous regions of northern Europe, Siberia and North America.

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Rhododendron tomentosum

Rhododendron tomentosum (syn. Ledum palustre), commonly known as marsh Labrador tea, northern Labrador tea or wild rosemary, is a flowering plant in the subsection Ledum of the large genus Rhododendron in the family Ericaceae.

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Road

A road is a thoroughfare, route, or way on land between two places that has been paved or otherwise improved to allow travel by foot or some form of conveyance, including a motor vehicle, cart, bicycle, or horse.

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Royal Norwegian Air Force

The Royal Norwegian Air Force (RNoAF) (Luftforsvaret) is the air force of Norway.

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Salmon

Salmon is the common name for several species of ray-finned fish in the family Salmonidae.

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Sami people

The Sami people (also known as the Sámi or the Saami) are a Finno-Ugric people inhabiting Sápmi, which today encompasses large parts of Norway and Sweden, northern parts of Finland, and the Murmansk Oblast of Russia.

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Ságat

Ságat is a Sámi newspaper written in Norwegian that is published in the county of Finnmark in Norway.

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Skoganvarre

Skoganvarre (Skuvvanvárri) is a village in Porsanger Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway.

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Skoganvarre Chapel

Skoganvarre Chapel (Skoganvarre kapell) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Porsanger Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway.

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Social work

Social work is an academic discipline and profession that concerns itself with individuals, families, groups and communities in an effort to enhance social functioning and overall well-being.

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Stabbursdalen National Park

Stabbursdalen National Park (Stabbursdalen nasjonalpark) is a national park in North Norway.

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Stabburselva

Stabburselva (Rautusjoki; Rávttošjohka) is a river in Porsanger Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway.

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Station Group Banak

Station Group Banak (Stasjonsgruppe Banak), formerly Banak Air Station (Banak flystasjon), is a military airbase located at Banak, just north of Lakselv in Porsanger, Norway.

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Statistics Norway

Statistics Norway (Statistisk sentralbyrå, abbreviated to SSB) is the Norwegian statistics bureau.

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Store norske leksikon

Store norske leksikon, abbreviated SNL, is a Norwegian language (bokmål) encyclopedia.

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Sværholt Peninsula

The Sværholt Peninsula (Sværholthalvøya) is a peninsula in Finnmark county, Norway.

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Tromsø

Tromsø (Romsa; Tromssa; Tromssa) is a city and municipality in Troms county, Norway.

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Unemployment

Unemployment is the situation of actively looking for employment but not being currently employed.

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War

War is a state of armed conflict between states, societies and informal groups, such as insurgents and militias.

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Waterfall

A waterfall is a place where water flows over a vertical drop or a series of steep drops in the course of a stream or river.

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Wetland

A wetland is a land area that is saturated with water, either permanently or seasonally, such that it takes on the characteristics of a distinct ecosystem.

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Widerøe

Widerøe's Flyveselskap AS, trading as Widerøe, is the largest regional airline operating in the Nordic countries.

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Winery

A winery is a building or property that produces wine, or a business involved in the production of wine, such as a wine company.

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Woodland

Woodland, is a low-density forest forming open habitats with plenty of sunlight and limited shade.

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Zoning

Zoning is the process of dividing land in a municipality into zones (e.g. residential, industrial) in which certain land uses are permitted or prohibited.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsanger

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