Nyttingnes is a

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with 28 inhabitants and 9 houses in the municipality of

Kinn Kinn is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It was established on 1 January 2020. It is in the traditional districts of Nordfjord and Sunnfjord. The municipality is the only non-contiguous municipality in Norway since the municipality of ...

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,

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. Nyttingnes is located northwest of the village of

Steinhovden Steinhovden is a village with 119 inhabitants in the municipality of Kinn in Vestland county, Norway. The village is located along the Høydalsfjorden, about southeast of the village of Nyttingnes and about west of the village of Eikefjord. Th ...

and about across the

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from the village of

Brandsøy Brandsøy is a village in Kinn Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located on both sides of small strait that separates the east end of the island of Brandsøya and the mainland. The village sits along the Norwegian National Road 5 h ...

. The town of

Florø is a town and the administrative centre of the municipality of Kinn, Vestland, Norway. The town was founded by royal decree in 1860 as a ladested on the island of Florelandet, located between the Botnafjorden and Solheimsfjorden. Florø is No ...

lies about to the west, although the road from Nyttingnes to Florø goes around the fjord via the village of

Eikefjord Eikefjord is a former municipality in the Sunnfjord district in the old Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1923 until 1964 when it joined Flora Municipality (now part of Kinn Municipality in Vestland county). The ...

(a 40-kilometre long drive). In recent history, there has been a negative demographic trend in this village. Nyttingnes is made up of the farms: Tunet, Bakken, Pergarden, Ludviggarden, Kvia and Opptun. Historically, the inhabitants were farmers and fishermen. The nearby Skårafjæra beach area is popular for many tourists.

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Kinn Villages in Vestland {{Vestland-geo-stub