Fiskåbygd or Fiskå is a coastal village that is also the
administrative centre of
Vanylven Municipality
Vanylven is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the Sunnmøre region. The administrative centre is the village of Fiskåbygd. Other villages in the municipality include Åheim, Åram, Rovdane, Eidså, Slagnes ...
in
Møre og Romsdal county,
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the ...
. The village is located about southwest of the city of
Ålesund
Ålesund () sometimes spelled Aalesund in English, is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal County, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Sunnmøre and the centre of the Ålesund Region. The town of Ålesund is the administrativ ...
, about east of the village of
Myklebost, and about southwest of the village of
Rovdane. Fiskåbygd lies along the shores of the
Vanylvsfjorden, east of the
Stadlandet peninsula in
Selje Municipality.
The village has a population (2018) of 499 and a
population density
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of .
The nearest church is
Vanylven Church, located in
Slagnes about to the southwest.
References
Vanylven
Villages in Møre og Romsdal
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