Eikefjord 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 ...

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county,

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. The village is located at the end of the Eikefjorden along the Norwegian National Road 5 highway. The town of

Florø is a town and the administrative centre of the municipality of Kinn, Vestland, Norway. The town was founded by royal decree in 1860 as a ladested on the island of Florelandet, located between the Botnafjorden and Solheimsfjorden. Florø is N ...

lies about to the west and the village of

Naustdal Naustdal is a former municipality in the old Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. It was located in the traditional district of Sunnfjord. The administrative centre was the village of Naustdal, which has 1,188 inhabitants (2017). Other villag ...

lies about to the southeast (through the Naustdal Tunnel. The lake Endestadvatnet lies about to the east. The villages of

Nyttingnes Nyttingnes is a hamlet with 28 inhabitants and 9 houses in the municipality of Kinn in Vestland county, Norway. Nyttingnes is located northwest of the village of Steinhovden and about across the fjord from the village of Brandsøy. The town o ...

and Steinhovden lie about west of Eikefjord. The village has a population (2019) of 414 and a

population density Population density (in agriculture: Stock (disambiguation), standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area. It is mostly applied to humans, but sometimes to other living organisms too. It is a key geographical ...

of . Eikefjord Church is located in this village, serving the southeastern part of the municipality. This 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, L ...

of the old municipality of Eikefjord which existed from 1923 until 1964.

Name

The village was named after the old ''Eikefjord'' farm ( non, Eikifjǫrðr) since the Eikefjord Church was located there. The farm is named after the Eikefjorden which is located nearby. The

fjord In physical geography, a fjord or fiord () is a long, narrow inlet with steep sides or cliffs, created by a glacier. Fjords exist on the coasts of Alaska, Antarctica, British Columbia, Chile, Denmark, Germany, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, Icela ...

name comes from the Old Norse word ''eiki'' which means

oak An oak is a tree or shrub in the genus ''Quercus'' (; Latin "oak tree") of the beech family, Fagaceae. There are approximately 500 extant species of oaks. The common name "oak" also appears in the names of species in related genera, notably ''L ...

wood.

Population

In 2001, the village of Eikefjord had 322 inhabitants. The greater Eikefjord area had exactly 1,000 inhabitants, with 322 inhabitants in the village of Eikefjord, 100 in Tonheim/ Grov, 88 in Sunnarvik, 192 in Hovland, 55 in Svardal/Steindalen, 117 in Langedal/Ramsdal, and 126 in Endestad/Løkkebø. Also in 2001, the whole Eikefjord district has a population of 1,273.

References

Villages in Vestland Kinn {{Vestland-geo-stub