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Vestland is a county in Norway. The county is located in Western Norway, and its administrative centre is Bergen, where the executive and political leadership is based. The County Governor is based in Hermansverk. Vestland is one of two counties in Norway that have Nynorsk as their official written language form.

Key facts

Kommune.name
Vestland
Kommune.fylke
yes
Kommune.map
none
Kommune.idnumber
46
Kommune.county
Vestland
Kommune.district
Western Norway
Kommune.capital
Bergen
Kommune.established
1 Jan 2020
Kommune.preceded
Hordaland and Sogn og Fjordane counties
Kommune.demonym
Vestlending
Kommune.language
Nynorsk
Kommune.webpage
vlfk.no
Kommune.county_mayor
Jon Askeland
Kommune.county_mayor_party
Sp
Kommune.county_mayor_as_of
2020
Kommune.governor
Liv Signe Navarsete
Kommune.governor_party
Sp
Kommune.governor_as_of
2022

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Official website

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
county of Norway
Country
Norway
Located in
Norway
Capital
Bergen
Population
633117
Area
1892.57
Shares border with
Rogaland
Official website
www.vlfk.no
Image
Sognefjord - 2013.08 - panoramio.jpg
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inception
2020-01-01
replaces
Hordaland
topic's main category
Category:Vestland
Commons category
Vestland
different from
Western Norway
native label
Vestland
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Encyclopedic overview

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  • Geography
  • Government
  • Media gallery
  • Municipalities
  • See also
  • Explanatory notes
  • References

Vestland is a county in Norway. The county is located in Western Norway, and its administrative centre is Bergen, where the executive and political leadership is based. The County Governor is based in Hermansverk. Vestland is one of two counties in Norway that have Nynorsk as their official written language form.

Vestland was created on 1 January 2020, when the former counties of Hordaland and Sogn og Fjordane were merged.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vestland” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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