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Nordreisa is a municipality
Municipalities of Norway

||}Norway is divided into 19 administrative regions, called county , and 430 municipality . The capital city Oslo is considered both a county and a municipality....
 in Troms
Troms

or Romsa is a Counties of Norway in North Norway, bordering Finnmark to the northeast and Nordland in the southwest. To the south is Norrbotten L?n in Sweden and further southeast is a shorter border with Lapland Province in Finland....
 county
Counties of Norway

||-||}Norway is divided into 19 subnational, called county . The counties form the primary first-level subdivisions of Norway and are further divided into 431 Municipalities of Norway ....
, Norway
Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe that occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula....
. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Storslett
Storslett

Storslett is the administrative centre of Nordreisa municipality, Norway. Its population is 1,455....
. Nordreisa was separated from the municipality of Skjervøy
Skjervøy

Skjerv?y is a Municipalities of Norway in Troms Counties of Norway, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Skjerv?y, where most of the inhabitants live....
 on 1 January 1886. The parts of Skjervøy lying on the mainland were transferred from Skjervøy to Nordreisa on 1 January 1972.

The municipality consists of the valley of Reisadalen, with Reisa river and deep pine
Pine

Pines are Pinophyta trees in the genus Pinus, in the family Pinaceae. They make up the monotypic subfamily Pinoideae. There are about 115 species of pine, although different authorities accept between 105 and 125 species....
 forest
Forest

File:Stara planina suma.jpgA forest is an area with a high density of trees. There are many definitions of a forest, based on various criteria....
s, surrounded by mountain
Mountain

A mountain is a landform that stretches above the surrounding land in a limited area usually in the form of a peak. A mountain is generally steeper than a hill....
s and high plateau
Plateau

In geology and earth science, a plateau, also called a high plateau or tableland, is an area of highland , usually consisting of relatively flat terrain....
s.






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Nordreisa is a municipality
Municipalities of Norway

||}Norway is divided into 19 administrative regions, called county , and 430 municipality . The capital city Oslo is considered both a county and a municipality....
 in Troms
Troms

or Romsa is a Counties of Norway in North Norway, bordering Finnmark to the northeast and Nordland in the southwest. To the south is Norrbotten L?n in Sweden and further southeast is a shorter border with Lapland Province in Finland....
 county
Counties of Norway

||-||}Norway is divided into 19 subnational, called county . The counties form the primary first-level subdivisions of Norway and are further divided into 431 Municipalities of Norway ....
, Norway
Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe that occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula....
. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Storslett
Storslett

Storslett is the administrative centre of Nordreisa municipality, Norway. Its population is 1,455....
. Nordreisa was separated from the municipality of Skjervøy
Skjervøy

Skjerv?y is a Municipalities of Norway in Troms Counties of Norway, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Skjerv?y, where most of the inhabitants live....
 on 1 January 1886. The parts of Skjervøy lying on the mainland were transferred from Skjervøy to Nordreisa on 1 January 1972.

The municipality consists of the valley of Reisadalen, with Reisa river and deep pine
Pine

Pines are Pinophyta trees in the genus Pinus, in the family Pinaceae. They make up the monotypic subfamily Pinoideae. There are about 115 species of pine, although different authorities accept between 105 and 125 species....
 forest
Forest

File:Stara planina suma.jpgA forest is an area with a high density of trees. There are many definitions of a forest, based on various criteria....
s, surrounded by mountain
Mountain

A mountain is a landform that stretches above the surrounding land in a limited area usually in the form of a peak. A mountain is generally steeper than a hill....
s and high plateau
Plateau

In geology and earth science, a plateau, also called a high plateau or tableland, is an area of highland , usually consisting of relatively flat terrain....
s. Most people live in Storslett, where the river
River

A river is a natural stream of water, usually freshwater, flowing toward an ocean, a lake, or another stream. In some cases a river flows into the ground or dries up completely before reaching another body of water....
 meets the fjord
Fjord

Geologically, a fjord or fiord is a long, narrow inlet with steep sides, created in a valley carved by Glacier....
. Close by, at Sørkjosen
Sørkjosen

S?rkjosen is a village in the municipality of Nordreisa, Norway. Its population is 887. It is the site of S?rkjosen Airport....
 there is an airport
Airport

An airport is a location where aircraft such as Fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and Non-rigid airship take off and land. Aircraft may also be stored or maintained at an airport....
. European route E6
European route E6

E 6 is the designation for the main north-south road in Norway, and the west coast of Sweden, running from the southern tip of Sweden, at Trelleborg, into Norway and through almost all of the country north to Finnmark....
 goes through the municipality.

General information


Name

The municipality is named after the Reisafjorden (originally Reisa), which again is named after Reisaelva ("Reisa river" - originally Reisa). The river name is probably derived form the verb rísa which means "raise" (referring to flood
Flood

A flood is an overflow of an expanse of water that submerges land, a deluge. In the sense of "flowing water", the word may also be applied to the inflow of the tide....
ing).

The first element Nord ("northern") was added to distinguish the municipality from Sørreisa
Sørreisa

S?rreisa is a Municipalities of Norway in Troms Counties of Norway, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of S?rreisa....
.

Coat-of-arms

The coat-of-arms
Coat of arms

A coat of arms, more properly called an armorial achievement, armorial bearings or often just arms for short, in European tradition, is a design belonging to a particular person and used by them in a wide variety of ways....
 is from modern times. They were granted on 21 December 1984. The arms show two salmon
Salmon

Salmon is the common name for several species of fish of the family Salmonidae. Several other fish in the family are called trout,the difference is often attributed to the migratory life of the salmon as compared to the residential behaviour of trout, this holds true for the Atlantic salmon....
, since one of the country's best salmon rivers runs through the municipality.

History

Most inhabitants are descendants of settlers from Finland
Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....
 who came over in the 18th century, escaping famine
Famine

A famine is a widespread shortage of food that may apply to any faunal species, which phenomenon is usually accompanied by regional malnutrition, starvation, epidemic, and increased death....
 and war
War

...
. Today, only a few old people can speak Finnish
Finnish language

Finnish is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by Finnish people outside of Finland. It is one of the official languages of Finland and an official minority language in Sweden....
. Some inhabitants have Sami
Sami people

The S?mi people, are the indigenous people Indigenous peoples of Europe inhabiting S?pmi , which today encompasses parts of northern Sweden, Norway, Finland and the Kola Peninsula of Russia....
 or Norwegian
Norwegian people

Norwegians See also History of Norway and Demography of Norway.There are about 4.4 million ethnic Norwegians living in Norway today. The Norwegians are a Scandinavian ethnic group, descendants of the Norsemen , and Celts....
 backgrounds, and today the Norwegian language
Norwegian language

Norwegian is a North Germanic languages language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is an official language. It is also spoken as a second language among Norwegian-Americans in the United States of America, especially in the central northern states....
 is most commonly used.

Few old buildings survive in Nordreisa, as virtually everything was destroyed in early 1945 by retreating German troops
Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany and the Third Reich are the colloquial English names for Germany under the regime of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party , which established a Totalitarianism dictatorship that existed from 1933 to 1945....
. The two major attractions are the old trading post at Havnnes, with picturesque old houses that escaped the war damages, and the waterfall
Waterfall

A waterfall is usually a geology geologic formation resulting from water, often in the form of a stream, flowing over an erosion-resistant rock formation that forms a nickpoint, or sudden break in elevation....
 of Mollisfossen, which is high. The upper, or southernmost, areas of the municipality are covered by the Reisa National Park
Reisa National Park

Reisa National Park is a national park in the county of Troms in Norway.The Reisa river has cut a valley and, north of Imo, canyon in the mountain plateau, producing the long fertile valley called Reisadalen....
 with unique forest and high plateau vegetation.

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