page_title: Gamvik
section_title: General information
hierarchical_section_title: Gamvik / General information
caption_attribution_description: Slettnes Nature Reserve, Finnmark, Norway
context_page_description: Gamvik is a municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Mehamn. The other main villages in Gamvik include Gamvik and Skjånes. Gamvik is known as one of the poorest and most undeveloped municipalities in Norway. The number of inhabitants rose at one moment in 2012, but in 2014, after the fish factory closed, the population declined dramatically with the departure of the eastern European fishermen.
  Most people live in the village of Mehamn, which has an airport, Mehamn Airport, and is also a port of call of the hurtigruten coastal boats. The Slettnes Lighthouse near the village of Gamvik is the northernmost lighthouse on the mainland of Europe. Nervei and Langfjordbotn are two very small villages in southern Gamvik that are only accessible by boat. Finnkongkeila is an abandoned village along the Tanafjorden.
  The 1,416-square-kilometre municipality is the 65th largest by area out of the 356 municipalities in Norway. Gamvik is the 326th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 1,132.
context_section_description: The municipality of Gamvik was established on 1 January 1914 when the old Tana Municipality was divided into three municipalities: Tana (population: 1,426) in the south, Berlevåg (population: 784) in the northeast, and Gamvik (population: 1,371) in the northwest.  The municipal boundaries have not changed since that time.
  On 1 January 2020, the municipality became part of the newly formed Troms og Finnmark county. Previously, it had been part of the old Finnmark county.
caption: View of the Slettnes Nature Reserve
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