Editing Tromsø (section)

===Late 1900s{{spaced ndash}}today: rapid expansion===
Expansion after World War II has been rapid. The rural [[Tromsøysund Municipality]] and [[Ullsfjord Municipality]], and most of [[Hillesøy Municipality]], were merged with Tromsø on 1 January 1964, creating today's Tromsø municipality and almost tripling Tromsø's population - from 12,430 to 32,664.<ref name="ssbpop">{{Cite web |year=2007 |title=1902 Tromsø. Population 1 January and population changes during the year. 1951- |url=http://www.ssb.no/english/subjects/02/02/folkendrhist_en/tables/tab/1902.html |access-date=2007-11-03 |publisher=Statistics Norway |archive-date=7 November 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071107101824/http://www.ssb.no/english/subjects/02/02/folkendrhist_en/tables/tab/1902.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In addition, the population growth has been strong, with at times more than 1,000 new '''Tromsøværinger''' (residents of Tromsø) annually. The population of Tromsø municipality today is 68,239, and the urban area, Norway's ninth most populous, is home to 58,486 people.<ref name="ssb">{{Cite web |last=Statistics Norway |date=1 January 2011 |title=Urban settlements. Population and area, by municipality. |url=http://www.ssb.no/emner/02/01/10/beftett/tab-2011-06-17-02.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111125213911/http://www.ssb.no/emner/02/01/10/beftett/tab-2011-06-17-02.html |archive-date=25 November 2011}}</ref> This excludes most of the city's students, however, who often do not change their address when moving to Tromsø.

A major development was the opening of [[Tromsø Airport]] in 1964, situated on the main island, and in 1972 the [[University of Tromsø]] was opened, at the time one of four universities in Norway and the only one serving the northern half of the country. A local teacher's college and museum were eventually incorporated into the university. The [[Norwegian Polar Institute]] was moved to Tromsø from [[Oslo]] in 1998. More recently, the university has expanded further through two mergers, first with University College Tromsø in 2009 and then with University College Finnmark in 2013.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The story of UiT |url=https://en.uit.no/om/historie#dok539223 |access-date=15 July 2023 |archive-date=15 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230715190800/https://en.uit.no/om/historie#dok539223 |url-status=live }}</ref>