Brandsøy is a village in
Kinn Municipality in
Vestland
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county,
Norway
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. 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
Norwegian National Road 5 (, ) is a national road in Norway. It runs between Florø, Kinn to Lærdal, Vestland.
Starting where the E16 enters the Lærdal Tunnel, approximately five kilometers south of Lærdalsøyri, the road goes northwest ...
highway, about east of the town of
Florø and about west of the village of
Grov.
The village has a population (2019) of 674 and a
population density
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of .
References
Villages in Vestland
Kinn
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