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Flekke is a village in the municipality of
Fjaler Fjaler is a municipality in the county of Vestland, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Sunnfjord. The administrative centre is the village of Dale. Other places in Fjaler include Espedal, Flekke, Folkestad, Guddal, and Hellevik ...
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Vestland Vestland is a county in Norway established on 1 January 2020. 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 t ...
,
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. Flekke is located about south of the municipal center of Dale. The village is situated at the end of the Flekkefjorden, an arm of the Dalsfjorden. The village of
Guddal Guddal is a village in Fjaler Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The village is located about southeast of the village of Flekke, in the Guddalen valley. The village of Vadheim (in Høyanger Municipality) lies about to the southeast o ...
lies about to the southeast in the valley of Guddalen. A few kilometers north of Flekke, lies the village of Haugland, while the bay continues south to Trollvika and a narrow strait into Flosjøen.
UWC Red Cross Nordic The school UWC Red Cross Nordic ( Norwegian: UWC Røde Kors Nordisk), formerly known as Red Cross Nordic United World College, was founded in 1995, located in Norway. It is the ninth member of the today 18 United World Colleges, others having been ...
is located next to the Haugland Rehabilitation Center, just north of Flekke. Haugland Rehabilitation Centre is owned by the
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District of Sogn and Fjordane, and is part of the Norwegian Health Care System. The village of Flekke has a population (2013) of 263, giving the village a
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of .


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Villages in Vestland Fjaler {{Vestland-geo-stub