Karasjok in the second largest municipality in Norway, with an areal of 5464 km²

In 2009 it was 2 791 inhabitants in Karasjok municipality.

In 1867 Karasjok became its own municipality.

Karasjok has got the name from the river that flotes throw the municipality, Kárášjohka. The name johka is sami and meens river. The name Karas most likely comes from the finnish (kara) that meens curv- the curvy river.

Karasjok is today a cultural and social place for sami people in Norway. Important sami institutions is locaded here, for example the sami parliament, NRK Sami Radio (sami television), sami special doctor center, the sami collections, the special sami libary and much more.

Norways bigest national park, Øvre Anárjohka national park, is locaded in Karasjok municipality. Øver Anárjohka together with the finnish national park Lemmonjohki is today one of the biggest and most unmoved wildnessareas in Europe.

The river Kárášjohka togheter with Anárjohka makes Norways biggest salomons leading stream- Tanavassdraget. In 2001 there was fisched 200 ton salomon in tanavassdraget, with the side rivers.

The rivers Kárášjohka and Anárjohka have gold occurrence and from 1890 to second world war was operated commerciall operations at the goldfields. The big goldstream was never found...