Kjørnes is a small village area in the municipality of
Sogndal
Sogndal is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located on the northern shore of the Sognefjorden in the traditional district of Sogn. The village of Hermansverk is the administrative center of Sogndal municipality. Other villages ...
in
Vestland
Vestland is a 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 city of Bergen, whe ...
county,
Norway
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. It is located at the inner part of the
Sogndalsfjorden, about southeast of the municipal center of
Sogndalsfjøra and about northwest of the village of
Kaupanger. Kjørnes is a
suburb or
bedroom community
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for the village of Sogndalsfjøra. The village area sits along
Norwegian National Road 5 on the steep, forested, hill leading down to the shore of the fjord.
The village has a population (2019) of 804 and a
population density
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of .
References
Villages in Vestland
Sogndal
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