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Bergen Peninsula
The Bergen Peninsula (Bokmål: Bergenshalvøya, Urban East Norwegian:; Nynorsk: Bergenshalvøya) is a peninsula in Vestland county, Norway. The city of Bergen, Norway's second largest city, is located on the peninsula. The peninsula extends out from the mainland and it is surrounded by the following fjords: Samnangerfjorden, Bjørnafjorden, Fusafjorden, Raunefjorden, Byfjorden, Salhusfjorden, Sørfjorden. The peninsula is connected to the rest of mainland Norway by a narrow, 6.5-kilometre (4.0 mi) wide strip of land between the villages of Trengereid and Årland. The highest point is the 987-metre (3,238 ft) tall mountain Gullfjellet.
The peninsula is shared by three municipalities:
- all of Bergen Municipality (465 square kilometres; 180 sq mi)
- part of Bjørnafjorden Municipality (140 square kilometres; 54 sq mi)
- part of Samnanger Municipality (50 square kilometres; 19 sq mi)