Krokeidet is a suburban village in the borough of
Fana in the municipality of
Bergen
Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula of ...
in
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 ...
county,
Norway
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. It is located near the end of a small peninsula between the
Lysefjorden and
Fanafjorden
Fanafjorden is a fjord in the city-municipality of Bergen in Vestland county, Norway. The long fjord is a fjord arm that branches off of the Korsfjorden fjord and cuts into the large Bergen Peninsula. The deepest point in the fjord reaches be ...
, about south of the city centre of Bergen. The village has a population (2019) of 393 and a
population density
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of .
Transport
The
bus line 61 goes from the
Nesttun terminal to Krokeide. Before the
Bergen Light Rail between Byparken and Nesttun was opened in June 2011, the earlier line 560 buses drove between Krokeide and Bergen city centre. From Krokeide, there is a ferry route to Hufthamar in the municipality of
Austevoll.
References
Villages in Vestland
Neighbourhoods of Bergen
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