Gulen
| Gulen kommune | |||
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View of Eivindvik (photo: Bjarne Thune)
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 Gulen within Sogn og Fjordane |
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| Coordinates: 61°01′27″N 05°07′10″E / 61.02417°N 5.11944°ECoordinates: 61°01′27″N 05°07′10″E / 61.02417°N 5.11944°E | |||
| Country | Norway | ||
| County | Sogn og Fjordane | ||
| District | Sogn | ||
| Administrative centre | Eivindvik | ||
| Government | |||
| • Mayor (2011) | Hallvard S. Oppedal (Sp) | ||
| Area | |||
| • Total | 597.19 km2 (230.58 sq mi) | ||
| • Land | 575.85 km2 (222.34 sq mi) | ||
| • Water | 21.34 km2 (8.24 sq mi) | ||
| Area rank | 184 in Norway | ||
| Population (2013) | |||
| • Total | 2,305 | ||
| • Rank | 310 in Norway | ||
| • Density | 4.0/km2 (10/sq mi) | ||
| • Change (10 years) | -5.9 % | ||
| Demonym(s) | Guling | ||
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | ||
| ISO 3166 code | NO-1411 | ||
| Official language form | Nynorsk | ||
| Website | www |
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Gulen is a municipality in the southwestern part of Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Sogn. The administrative center of the municipality is the village of Eivindvik. Other villages in Gulen include Brekke, Byrknes, Dalsøyra, Dingja, Instefjord, Mjømna, Rutledal, and Ytre Oppedal.
The municipality of Gulen sits to the south of the Sognefjorden and it surrounds the Gulafjorden, which is considered to be the place where Norway's west-coastal Vikings met for the Gulating, a governing body. The area along the Gulafjorden called Flolid (just east of the village of Eivindvik) is now a national historic place, where an open-air theater and annual summer play commemorates the Vikings who gathered there 1000 years ago to accept Christianity.
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