Sogndal

Sogndal kommune
Municipality
Sogndal by night
Coat of arms Sogn og Fjordane within Norway
Sogndal within Sogn og Fjordane
Coordinates: 61°14′32″N 07°03′18″E / 61.24222°N 7.05500°E / 61.24222; 7.05500Coordinates: 61°14′32″N 07°03′18″E / 61.24222°N 7.05500°E / 61.24222; 7.05500
Country	Norway
County	Sogn og Fjordane
District	Sogn
Administrative centre	Sogndalsfjøra
Government
• Mayor (2007)	Jarle Aarvoll (Ap)
Area
• Total	745.91 km2 (288.00 sq mi)
• Land	736.13 km2 (284.22 sq mi)
• Water	9.78 km2 (3.78 sq mi)
Area rank	146 in Norway
Population (2010)
• Total	7,477
• Rank	141 in Norway
• Density	10.2/km2 (26/sq mi)
• Change (10 years)	10.7 %
Demonym(s)	Sogndøl
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
ISO 3166 code	NO-1420
Official language form	Nynorsk
Website	www.sogndal.kommune.no
Data from Statistics Norway

Sogndal is a municipality in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. It is located on the northern shore of the Sognefjorden in the traditional district of Sogn. The village of Sogndalsfjøra (population 3,455 in 2012) is the administrative center of Sogndal municipality. Other villages include Kaupanger, Kjørnes, Fimreite, Nornes, and Fjærland. Sogndal Airport, Haukåsen is located 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) southwest of Kaupanger.

The Norwegian dialect spoken in Sogndal is called sognamål.

In 1917, a farmer in Sogndal plowed up the Eggja stone, a gravestone with runic inscriptions important for the history of the Old Norse language.

Sogndal was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). The original municipality was identical to the Sogndal parish (prestegjeld) with the sub-parishes (sokn) of Stedje, Norane, and Kaupanger. On 1 January 1964, the Tingstad area (population: 5) was transferred from Leikanger municipality to Sogndal municipality. On 1 January 2000, the sub-parish of Fjærland was transferred from Balestrand municipality to Sogndal.

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