Western Norway
Western Norway, Vestlandet, is a region of Norway with 1.3 million citizens, famous for its fjords and mountainous sceneries. Bergen and Stavanger are dominant cities.Photo: Anna Anichkova, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Bergen and Stavanger.
Bergen
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Bergen is Norway's second largest city and the most popular gateway to the fjords of West Norway. The city is renowned for its great location amidst mountains, fjords, and the ocean.
Stavanger
Stavanger is Norway's fourth largest city, at almost 150,000 residents. It is the largest city in, and the administrative centre of, Rogaland county in West Norway.
Ålesund
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Ålesund is the largest city in Møre og Romsdal county, West Norway, with about 53,000 inhabitants, 66,000 in the surrounding area. Ålesund is the gateway to the iconic northwestern fjords and surrounding alpine mountains.
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Hordaland
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Hordaland is a former county in West Norway. Hordaland stretched from the weather-beaten islands on the North Sea coast, through the gentle fertile slopes of the great fjords, toward alpine mountains with glaciers and high plateaus inland. Bergen—Norway's…
Sogn og Fjordane
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Sogn og Fjordane is a county in West Norway. Sogn og Fjordane borders Hordaland in south, Møre og Romsdal in north. And Oppland and Buskerud to the east.
Rogaland
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Rogaland is a county in West Norway. Rogaland is a highly varied area from the sandy beaches and flatlands at Jæren, to the jaw-dropping cliffs of Lysefjorden, to charming lakes and fjord of Ryfylke and the barren uplands within.
Møre og Romsdal
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Møre og Romsdal is a county in Western Norway. It is the most northerly of the famous west coast fjord regions and its northern location possibly cuts visitors - but it yields to none of the others in its scenery.
Western Norway
- Type: region of Norway with 639,000 residents
- Description: region of Norway
- Also known as: “Vestland” and “Vestlandet”
- Location: Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Western Norway” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Vestland”
- Albanian: “Vestlandet”
- Amharic: “ቬስትላንድ”
- Arabic: “غرب النرويج”
- Arabic: “فيستلاند”
- Armenian: “Վեսթլան”
- Armenian: “Վեստլանն”
- Asturian: “Vestland”
- Asturian: “Vestlandet”
- Azerbaijani: “Vestland”
- Basque: “Hornelen”
- Belarusian: “Вестлан”
- Belarusian: “Вэстлян”
- Belarusian: “Рэгіён Вестлан”
- Bengali: “পশ্চিম নরওয়ে”
- Bengali: “ভেস্টল্যান্ড”
- Catalan: “Vestland”
- Catalan: “Vestlandet”
- Chinese: “西挪威”
- Chinese: “韋斯特蘭郡”
- Czech: “Vestland”
- Danish: “Vestland”
- Danish: “Vestlandet”
- Dimli (individual language): “Norwec Rocawani”
- Dutch: “Vestland”
- Dutch: “Vestlandet”
- Dutch: “West-Noorwegen”
- Esperanto: “Okcidentlando”
- Esperanto: “Vestland”
- Estonian: “Lääne-Norra”
- Estonian: “Vestlandet”
- Faroese: “Vestland fylki”
- Finnish: “Länsi-Norja”
- Finnish: “Vestland”
- Finnish: “Vestlandet”
- French: “Norvège occidentale”
- French: “Vestland”
- French: “Vestlandet”
- German: “Vestland”
- German: “Vestlandet”
- Greek: “Βέστλαντ”
- Greek: “Δυτικά της Νορβηγίας”
- Greek: “Δυτική Νορβηγία”
- Hausa: “Vestland”
- Hebrew: “וסטלן”
- Hebrew: “מערב נורבגיה”
- Hebrew: “מערב נורווגיה”
- Hungarian: “Vestlandet”
- Icelandic: “Vestur-Noregur”
- Icelandic: “Vesturland”
- Italian: “Norvegia occidentale”
- Italian: “Vestland”
- Italian: “Vestlandet”
- Japanese: “ヴェストラン”
- Japanese: “ヴェストラン県”
- Javanese: “Vestland”
- Kazakh: “Вестланд”
- Kirghiz: “Вестланд”
- Korean: “베스트란주”
- Korean: “베스틀란데트”
- Korean: “서노르웨이”
- Korean: “서부 노르웨이”
- Latin: “Vestlandia”
- Latvian: “Vestlanne”
- Limburgan: “Vestlandet”
- Macedonian: “Вестлан”
- Malay: “Vestland”
- Northern Frisian: “Vestland”
- Northern Sami: “Vestlandet”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vestland”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vestlandet”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vest-Noreg”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vestland fylke”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vestlandet”
- Norwegian: “Vestlandet”
- Oromo: “Vestland”
- Ossetian: “Вестланн”
- Ossetian: “Ныгуылæн Норвеги”
- Panjabi: “ਵੈਸਟਲੈਂਡ”
- Persian: “غرب نروژ”
- Persian: “نروژ غربی”
- Persian: “وستلند”
- Polish: “Vestland”
- Polish: “Vestlandet”
- Portuguese: “Noruega Ocidental”
- Portuguese: “Vestland”
- Portuguese: “Vestlandet”
- Pushto: “وستلند”
- Romanian: “Vestland”
- Romanian: “Vestlandet”
- Russian: “Вестланн”
- Russian: “Западная Норвегия”
- Serbian: “Вестландет”
- Serbian: “Западна Норвешка”
- Slovak: “Vestland”
- Slovak: “Vestlandet”
- Slovak: “Západné Nórsko”
- Slovenian: “Vestland”
- Slovenian: “Vestlandet”
- Slovenian: “Zahodna Norveška”
- Somali: “Vestland”
- Somali: “Western Norway”
- South Azerbaijani: “غربی نوروژ”
- Spanish: “Vestland”
- Spanish: “Vestlandet”
- Swahili: “Magharibi mwa Norwei”
- Swahili: “Vestland”
- Swedish: “Västnorge”
- Swedish: “Vestland fylke”
- Swedish: “Vestlandet”
- Tajik: “Вестланд”
- Tatar: “Вестланд”
- Thai: “เทศมณฑลเว็สต์ลัน”
- Turkish: “Batı Norveç”
- Turkish: “Vestland”
- Ukrainian: “Вестланн”
- Urdu: “مغربی ناروے”
- Uzbek: “Vestland”
- Vlaams: “Vestland”
- Vlaams: “Vestlandet”
- Western Frisian: “Vestlandet”
- Yue Chinese: “韋斯特蘭”
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