Troms, Norway

Troms is a county in northern Norway. It borders Finn Mark County to the northeast and Fordland County within the southwest. Norrbotten Lan in Sweden is positioned to the south and in addition southeast is a shorter border with Lapland Province in Finland. To the west is the Norwegian Sea Atlantic Ocean. The entire county, which was installed in 1866, is positioned north of the Arctic Circle. The Troms County Municipality is the governing body for the county, elected by using the humans of Troms, even as the Troms county governor is a representative of the King and Government of Norway. The county had a populace of 161,771 in 2014.

The city of Troms, in the north crucial part, is the county seat and an Arctic seaport, and seat of the sector's northernmost college, renowned for studies about the aurora borealis. The University of Troms has an astrophysical observatory located in Skibotn . Troms is the only municipality inside the county with a robust populace boom; maximum of the smaller municipalities revel in decreasing populations because the younger and educated flow to the towns, regularly inside the southern part of Norway.