Sogndal Municipality
Sogndal Municipality
Sogndal kommune | |
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Sogndal by night | |
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Coat of arms | |
Vestland within Norway | |
Sogndal within Vestland | |
| Coordinates: 61°14′32″N 07°03′18″E / 61.24222°N 7.05500°E | |
| Country | Norway |
| County | Vestland |
| District | Sogn |
| Established | 1 Jan 1838 |
| • Created as | Formannskapsdistrikt |
| Administrative centre | Hermansverk/Leikanger |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2023) | Stig Ove Ølmheim (Ap) |
| Area | |
• Total | 1,257.84 km2 (485.65 sq mi) |
| • Land | 1,229.17 km2 (474.59 sq mi) |
| • Water | 28.67 km2 (11.07 sq mi) 2.3% |
| • Rank | #84 in Norway |
| Highest elevation | 1,741.81 m (5,714.6 ft) |
| Population (2025) | |
• Total | 12,496 |
| • Rank | #96 in Norway |
| • Density | 9.9/km2 (26/sq mi) |
| • Change (10 years) | +10% |
| Demonym | Systrening |
| Official language | |
| • Norwegian form | Nynorsk Sognamål (dialect) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| ISO 3166 code | NO-4640 |
| Website | Official website |
Sogndal is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located on the northern shore of the Sognefjorden in the traditional district of Sogn. The village of Hermansverk/Leikanger is the administrative center of Sogndal Municipality. Other villages in the municipality include Balestrand, Dragsviki, Fimreite, Fjærland, Kaupanger, Kjørnes, Norane, Sæle, and Sogndalsfjøra. Sogndal Airport, Haukåsen is located 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) southwest of Kaupanger. The most populated settlement in the municipality is Sogndalsfjøra.
The 1,257.84-square-kilometre (485.65 sq mi) municipality is the 84th largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Sogndal Municipality is the 96th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 12,496. The municipality's population density is 9.9 inhabitants per square kilometre (26/sq mi) and its population has increased by 10% over the previous 10-year period.
The Norwegian dialect spoken in Sogndal Municipality is called sognamål.
In 1917, a farmer in Sogndal (Kato Linde) plowed up the Eggja stone, a gravestone with runic inscriptions important for the history of the Old Norse language.