Ã…rland is a village in
Samnanger
Samnanger () is a municipality in the Midhordland region of Vestland county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Tysse, Hordaland, Tysse. Other main villages in the municipality include Haga, Hordaland, Haga an ...
municipality in
Vestland
Vestland is a Counties of Norway, county in Norway. The county is located in Western Norway, and its administrative centre is Bergen, where the executive and political leadership is based. The County governor (Norway), County Governor is based in ...
county,
Norway
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. The village is located on the northeastern shore of the
Samnangerfjorden
Samnangerfjorden () is a fjord in Vestland county, Norway. The long fjord is located in the municipalities of Bjørnafjorden (municipality), Bjørnafjorden and Samnanger. The head of the fjord is located in Samnanger, surrounded by the village ...
, west of the village of
Haga. It sits along
Norwegian County Road 7, which runs from the city of
Bergen
Bergen (, ) is a city and municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestland county on the Western Norway, west coast of Norway. Bergen is the list of towns and cities in Norway, second-largest city in Norway after the capital Oslo.
By May 20 ...
to Samnanger.
Samnanger Church is located in this village. The newspaper ''
Samningen'' has been published in Ã…rland since 1977.
''Store norske leksikon'': Samningen.
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References
Villages in Vestland
Samnanger
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