Gulen Municipality
Gulen Municipality
Gulen kommune | |
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| Evindvig herred (historic name) | |
View of Eivindvik Credit: Bjarne Thune | |
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Flag Coat of arms | |
Vestland within Norway | |
Gulen within Vestland | |
| Coordinates: 61°01′27″N 05°07′10″E / 61.02417°N 5.11944°E | |
| Country | Norway |
| County | Vestland |
| District | Sogn |
| Established | 1 Jan 1838 |
| • Created as | Formannskapsdistrikt |
| Administrative centre | Eivindvik |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2023) | May-Lynn Osland (Ap) |
| Area | |
• Total | 599.41 km2 (231.43 sq mi) |
| • Land | 577.10 km2 (222.82 sq mi) |
| • Water | 22.31 km2 (8.61 sq mi) 3.7% |
| • Rank | #189 in Norway |
| Highest elevation | 877.44 m (2,878.7 ft) |
| Population (2025) | |
• Total | 2,260 |
| • Rank | #266 in Norway |
| • Density | 3.8/km2 (9.8/sq mi) |
| • Change (10 years) | −3.5% |
| Demonym | Guling |
| Official language | |
| • Norwegian form | Nynorsk |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| ISO 3166 code | NO-4635 |
| Website | Official website |
ⓘ is a municipality in the western part of Vestland 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, Oppedal, and Rutledal.
The 599-square-kilometre (231 sq mi) municipality is the 189th largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Gulen Municipality is the 266th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 2,260. The municipality's population density is 3.8 inhabitants per square kilometre (9.8/sq mi) and its population has decreased by 3.5% over the previous 10-year period.
Gulen Municipality 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.
In 2016, the chief of police for Vestlandet formally suggested a reconfiguration of police districts and stations. He proposed that the police station in Gulen be closed.