Sylte or Valldal is a village in Fjord Municipality 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 situated at the southern end of the

Valldalen Valldalen (or sometimes just ''Valldal'') is a valley in Fjord Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located north of the Norddalsfjorden. The village of Sylte, Norddal, Sylte (which is also called Valldal) is located at the end ...

valley along the shore of the

Norddalsfjorden Norddalsfjorden is a branch off of the main Storfjorden in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The fjord is located in Fjord Municipality and a small part is also in Stranda Municipality. The fjord is long, when you include the Tafjorden arm th ...

near the mouth of the Valldøla river, just west of the entrance to the

Tafjorden Tafjorden is an inner branch of the Norddalsfjorden/ Storfjorden in Fjord Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site West Norwegian Fjords. The fjord is located southeast of the village of Sylt ...

. The village has a population (2012) of 411. This gives the village a population density of . Syltekyrkje-Valldal-HH

The village is located about northeast of the village of

Eidsdal Eidsdal is a village and valley in Fjord Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located along the south side of the Norddalsfjorden, about southwest of the municipal centre of Sylte, Norddal, Sylte and the village of Norddal (vil ...

(across the fjord), and it is about northwest of the village of

Tafjord Tafjord is a village in Fjord Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The village is in a valley located at the end of the Tafjorden, about southeast of the municipal centre of Sylte, and just west of the borders of Reinheimen Nation ...

which is accessed via several long tunnels including the

Heggur Tunnel The Heggur Tunnel ( no, Heggurtunnelen) is a road tunnel in Fjord Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The long tunnel was built in 1982 to connect the isolated village of Tafjord to the rest of Norway's road network. The village is ...

Norwegian County Road 63 Norwegian County Road 63 ( no, Fylkesvei 63 or ) is a Norwegian county road in Møre og Romsdal county and a very small part in Innlandet county, Norway. It begins at Norwegian National Road 15 along the lake Langvatnet in Skjåk Municipality in ...

runs north through Sylte on its way through the

valley up to the

Trollstigen Trollstigen (or trollstigvegen; en, The troll path) is a serpentine mountain road and pass in Rauma Municipality, Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of Norwegian County Road 63 that connects the town of Åndalsnes in Rauma and the ...

area. The village is home to many industries, including production of

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and wood products,

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, and

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. The newspaper ''

Storfjordnytt ''Storfjordnytt'' (The Storfjord News) is a local Norwegian newspaper published once a week in Møre og Romsdal county. The newspaper is published every Thursday, and it covers news in the municipality of Fjord, as well as in the villages of Geira ...

'' is published in Sylte. Sylte Church is located here. The name originates from an older word in dialect meaning wet lowland. The village was the

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of the old

Norddal Municipality Norddal is a former municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It merged with Stordal municipality to establish the new Fjord municipality in 2020. It covered the easternmost part of the Sunnmøre region along the border with Oppland co ...

until 2020.

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* Fjord (municipality) Villages in Møre og Romsdal {{MøreRomsdal-geo-stub