Landscapes of Norway

Norway is divided into 19 administrative regions, called counties (Norwegian: singular fylke, plural fylker (Bokmål) / fylke (Nynorsk); until 1918 known as amt, pl. amter / amt), and 431 municipalities (kommune, pl. kommuner / kommunar). The capital Oslo is considered as both a county and a municipality. There is some political disagreement on whether counties are a practical or indeed necessary level of adm ...

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• Counties of Norway - List of counties

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Sogn is a landscape in the western part of Norway, in the county of Sogn og Fjordane, surrounding Sognefjorden. It consists of the municipalities Aurland, Balestrand, Hyllestad, Høyanger, Gulen, Leikanger, Luster Lærdal, Sogndal, Solund, Vik and Årdal. In the early Viking Age, before Harald Fairhair, Sogn was a petty kingdom. The kings of Sogn are: Harald Gulskeg (Goldbeard), father of Ragnhild, first wife of Halfdan the Black Halfdan the Black Harald Fairhair

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