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Tromsø
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Area: 2558 sq. kilometers (988 sq. miles)
Inhabitants: 60 086 (2001)
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Tromsø is the main city in northern Norway. It is Norway's largest county borough, measured in area – a result of combining it with Tromsøysund and large parts of Ullsfjord and Hillesøy municipalities in 1964.
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The 'Gateway to the Arctic' is a stark contrast to the sober communities dotting the northern coast of Norway.
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It's a spirited town with street music, cultural happenings and more pubs per capita than any other place in the country.
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Set on an island, with fjords all around, the city is joined to the mainland by a long bridge. Soaring over Tromsø Sound, it was built in 1960 and is still a striking engineering achievement, though traffic across it has grown to such an extent that it is a bottleneck at peak times.
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Tromsø has strong traditions of local patriotism and cultural conservatism, but because of its special atmosphere and its lively contact with the outside world, this arctic city is also known as "Paris of the
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North". The city center is characterized by unusual old wooden houses and lively street life. The students attending Tromsø's large university keep things lively, and the world's most northerly brewery doubtless plays its part too.
Tromsø is one of the county's largest agriculture municipalities, with particularly large sheep stocks. The fishing fleet is considerable, and has relatively many large boats that fish year round – making fishing the only trade for most boat owners.
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