Tennebø is a village in

Kinn Municipality 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,

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 t ...

. It is a suburb of the town of

Måløy Måløy () is a town in the municipality of Kinn in Vestland county, Norway. Måløy is located on the southeastern side of the island of Vågsøy, about northeast of the village of Holvika and about south of the village of Raudeberg. The M� ...

, the centre of which is located about away. The village of

Deknepollen Degnepoll or Deknepollen is a neighborhood in Kinn Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. Deknepollen is located on the mainland and it is an eastern suburb of the town of Måløy (which is located on the island of Vågsøy), which it is conne ...

, another suburb of Måløy lies about to the northwest. The lake

Degnepollvatnet Degnepollvatnet or Deknepollvatnet (known locally as ''Polljavatnet'') is a lake in Kinn Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The lake is situated on the mainland between the small villages of Degnepoll and Tennebø, just east of the town ...

is just north of the village of Tennebø. The village sits along the Skavøypollen, a small bay off the main Nordfjorden. To the east, the village of

Bryggja Bryggja is a village in southwestern part of Stad Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located on the mainland, along the northern shore of the Nordfjorden. The village is located about east of the urban areas of Måløy– Dekn ...

is about away. The population in 1999 was 481, but since 2001 it has been considered a part of the urban area of

, so specific population figures are not available.

Notable residents

Bjørg Sandal Bjørg Kirsten Sandal (born 2 March 1955) is a Norwegian director and politician for the Labour Party. She is from Tennebø in Sogn og Fjordane, and a sister of fellow politician Reidar Sandal. A cand.mag. by education, she was hired to the Phi ...

(born 1955) is a

politician A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking, a ...

from the

Norwegian Labour Party The Labour Party ( nb, Arbeiderpartiet; nn, Arbeidarpartiet; A/Ap; se, Bargiidbellodat), formerly The Norwegian Labour Party ( no, Det norske Arbeiderparti, DNA), is a social-democratic political party in Norway. It is positioned on the centr ...

and is from Tennebø.

References

Villages in Vestland Kinn {{Vestland-geo-stub