Editing Finnmark (section)

== Administration ==
{{main|Finnmark County Municipality}}
[[File:Vadso Kirche.jpg|thumb|right|Vadsø with the church, February 2004]]
The town of [[Vadsø (town)|Vadsø]] is the [[administrative centre]] for the county of Finnmark, although [[Alta (town)|Alta]] has the largest population.  The [[Finnmark County Municipality]] was the governing body for the county.  The county was generally divided into two districts: [[West-Finnmark]] (''Vest-Finnmark'') and [[East-Finnmark]] (''Øst-Finnmark'').

Until 2006, [[Statskog]], the Norwegian state-owned agency responsible for the management of state owned forest and mountain real estate, owned about 95% of the land in Finnmark county. On 1 July 2006, the [[Finnmark Estate]] agency took over the ownership and management of that land in Finnmark. The Finnmark Estate was governed in tandem by the [[Finnmark County Municipality]] and the [[Sami Parliament of Norway]]. The Sami Parliament of Norway is based in the village of [[Karasjok (village)|Karasjok]].

The national government runs the [[Northern Norway Regional Health Authority]] which in turn owns and operates two [[hospital]]s in Finnmark, located in [[Kirkenes]] and [[Hammerfest (town)|Hammerfest]].

=== Municipalities ===
There were 19 municipalities in Finnmark when the county merged into ''Troms og Finnmark''. 18 of those exist as of 2021.

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! colspan=2|Municipalities in Finnmark
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!Key
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# [[Alta Municipality|Alta]]
# [[Berlevåg Municipality|Berlevåg]]
# [[Båtsfjord Municipality|Båtsfjord]]
# [[Gamvik Municipality|Gamvik]]
# [[Hammerfest Municipality|Hammerfest]]
# [[Hasvik Municipality|Hassvik]]
# [[Karasjok Municipality|Kárášjohka or Karasjok]]
# [[Kautokeino Municipality|Guovdageaidnu or Kautokeino]]
# [[Hammerfest Municipality|Hammerfest]] (formerly Kvalsund, merged in 2020)
# [[Lebesby Municipality|Lebesby]]
# [[Loppa Municipality|Loppa]]
# [[Måsøy Municipality|Måsøy]]
# [[Nesseby Municipality|Unjárga or Nesseby]]
# [[Nordkapp Municipality|Nordkapp]]
# [[Porsanger Municipality|Porsanger or Porsángu or Porsanki]]
# [[Sør-Varanger Municipality|Sør-Varanger]]
# [[Tana Municipality|Deatnu or Tana]]
# [[Vadsø Municipality|Vadsø]]
# [[Vardø Municipality|Vardø]]
|}
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