page_title: Nesseby
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Nesseby / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Fish farming of salmon i Nesseby, Norway
context_page_description: Unjárga or Nesseby is a municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Varangerbotn. Other villages in Nesseby include Gandvik, Karlebotn, Nesseby, and Nyelv. The European route E06 and European route E75 highways intersect at Varangerbotn in Nesseby.
  The 1,437-square-kilometre municipality is the 62nd largest by area out of the 356 municipalities in Norway. Nesseby is the 340th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 926. The municipality's population density is 0.7 inhabitants per square kilometre and its population has increased by 4.8% over the previous 10-year period.
context_section_description: Wild reindeer used to cross the isthmus in prehistoric times until the year 1900, causing extensive human activity throughout the millennia.  Therefore, the area is full of archeological finds from different periods.
caption: Farming of salmon in Nesseby
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