District Nord-Norge Adm. Center Polmak Area 2,257 km² | Municipality ID NO-2026 Created from Nesseby in 1903 Local time Thursday 9:57 AM | |
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Polmak (Northern Sami: Buolbmát and Finnish: Pulmanki) is a village and a former municipality in Finnmark county in Norway. It is located in the southern part of the present-day municipality of Tana. It stretched from Leavvajohka in the west to Polmak village in the east and then on both sides of the Tana River north river to the Tana Bridge.
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Map of 9845 Polmak, Norway
The name
The Sami form of the name is Buolbmát. The meaning is unknown.
History
The municipality was established on 1 January 1903 when it was split from the municipality of Nesseby. At that time, it had a population of 450. On 1 January 1964, Polmak (population: 1,072) was merged into the neighboring municipality of Tana.
References
Polmak Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA