General Information
The municipality of Narvik was established on 1 January 1902 when the village of Narvik received city status and was separated from the large municipality of Ankenes. Initially, the city-municipality of Narvik had 3,705 residents. On 1 January 1974, the municipality of Ankenes was merged with the city-municipality of Narvik, forming a new, larger municipality of Narvik. After the merger, the new municipality of Narvik had 19,780 residents. On 1 January 1999, a small area of Narvik (population: 9) was transferred to Evenes.
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