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Vestland County
Vestland fylke | |
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County | |
 Coat of arms | |
 Vestland within Norway | |
| Coordinates: 60°55′30″N 6°26′42″E / 60.92500°N 6.44500°E | |
| Country | Norway |
| County | Vestland |
| District | Western Norway |
| Established | 1 Jan 2020 |
| • Preceded by | Hordaland and Sogn og Fjordane counties |
| Administrative centre | Bergen |
| Government | |
| • Body | Vestland County Municipality |
| • Governor (2023) | Liv Signe Navarsete (Sp) |
| • County mayor | Jon Askeland (Sp) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 33,871 km2 (13,078 sq mi) |
| • Land | 31,969 km2 (12,343 sq mi) |
| • Water | 1,902 km2 (734 sq mi) 5.6% |
| • Rank | #5 in Norway |
| Population (2021) | |
| • Total | 638,821 |
| • Rank | #3 in Norway |
| • Density | 20/km2 (50/sq mi) |
| • Change (10 years) |  +8.1% |
| Demonym | Vestlending[1] |
| Official language [2] | |
| • Norwegian form | Nynorsk |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| ISO 3166 code | NO-46[3] |
| Website | Official website |
Data from Statistics Norway | |
Vestland is a county in Norway established on 1 January 2020.[4][5] The county is located in Western Norway and it is centred around the city of Bergen, Norway's second largest city. The administrative centre of the county is the city of Bergen, where the executive and political leadership is based, but the County Governor is based in Hermansverk. The county is one of two counties in Norway that have Nynorsk as their official written language form (the others are neutral as to which form people use).[6]
Vestland was created in 2020 when the former counties of Hordaland and Sogn og Fjordane (with the exception of Hornindal municipality, which became part of Volda municipality in Møre og Romsdal county) were merged.[7]
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- ^ "Arealstatistikk for Norge". Kartverket (in Norwegian Bokmål). 8 March 2013. Archived from the original on 11 May 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
- ^ "19 fylker blir til 11 – dette skal de hete (19 counties becoming 11 – this will be their names)" (in Norwegian). 6 April 2018. Archived from the original on 30 April 2019. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
- ^ "Forskrift om målvedtak i kommunar og fylkeskommunar (målvedtaksforskrifta)" (in Norwegian). Lovdata.no. Archived from the original on 26 January 2020. Retrieved 19 June 2020.
- ^ "Navn på nye kommuner (Name of new municipalities)" (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 1 September 2019. Retrieved 28 May 2019.