Skogsvågen or Skogsvåg is a village in

Øygarden Øygarden is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is an island municipality located in the traditional district of Midhordland, stretching along the west coast of the county. The village of Straume is the administrative centre of the ...

municipality in

Vestland Vestland is a Counties of Norway, 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 cit ...

county,

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. The village is located on the eastern coast of the island of

Sotra Sotra or Store Sotra is the name of a large island in Øygarden Municipality in Vestland county, Norway, located just west of the city of Bergen. It is part of a pair of islands called 'Store Sotra, Sotra' and 'Litlesotra' ('small Sotra') that a ...

in the northern part of the municipality, just northeast of the village of

Hammarsland Hammarsland () is a village in Øygarden municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The village is located on the island of Sotra, just east of the village of Skogsvåg Skogsvågen or Skogsvåg is a village in Øygarden municipality in Vestland ...

. The village is the site of ''Sund senter'' (a shopping center), Skogsvåg kindergarten, Skogsvåg stadium, Sotra Upper Secondary School, and the Sund og Sundheimen nursing home. The village was the

administrative centre An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune is located. In countries with French as administrative language (such as Belgium, Lu ...

of Sund municipality until 2020. The village has a population (2019) of 555 and a

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of .

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Villages in Vestland Øygarden {{Vestland-geo-stub