Eidfjord

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Eidfjord kommune

Administrative centre

Eidfjord

Mayor (2003)

Ola B Hereid (Tverrpolitisk Bygdeliste)

Official language form

Nynorsk

Area
- Total
- Land
- Percentage

Ranked 53
1,493 km²
1,388 km²
0.46 %

Population
- Total (2004)
- Percentage
- Change (10 years)
- Density

Ranked 414
916
0.02 %
-15.6 %
1/km²

Coordinates

60°26′N, 7°16′E

www.eidfjord.kommune.no

Data from Statistics Norway

Coordinates: 60°26′N, 7°16′E

Eidfjord is a municipality in the county of Hordaland, Norway.

Eidfjord has two townships, Eidfjord and Øvre Eidfjord. Eidfjord is the municipality center situated by Eidfjorden, and is a major cruise harbour. Eidfjord has several wonderful tourist sites, like the Sima Power Plant built into the mountain itself, the famous waterfall Vøringsfossen with a free fall of 182 m and large parts of Europe's largest mountain plateau, Hardangervidda.

[edit] The name

The municipality is named after Eidfjorden (Norse Eiðafjörðr). The first element is the genitive case of the name of the farm Eiðar, the old churchsite. The name of the farm is the plural form of eið n 'land between to waters' (here the fjord and the lake of Eidfjordvatnet).

[edit] Coat-of-arms

The coat-of-arms is from modern times (1984). It shows the antlers of a reindeer.

(See also the coat-of-arms of Porsanger, Rendalen, Tromsø, Vadsø and Vågå.)

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