Aurland

Aurland is a municipality in the county of Sogn og Fjordane, Norway. It is placed on the south side of the Sognefjorden inside the traditional district of Sogn. The place of business is the village of Aurlandsvangen. Other villages consist of Bakka, Flam, Undredal, and Gudvangen. The 1,468-rectangular-kilometre 567 sq.Mi municipality is the 54th biggest by way of vicinity out of the 422 municipalities in Norway. Aurland is the 340th maximum populous municipality in Norway with a population of 1,787.

The municipality's population density is 1.3 population consistent with square kilometer and its populace has extended by 4.2% over the last decade. In 2016, the leader of police for Vestlandet officially counseled a reconfiguration of police districts and stations. He proposed that the police station in Aurland be closed. The earliest population lived with the aid of searching and fishing until they regularly began farming about 2,000 years in the past. Agriculture is still vital with the wealthy valley flooring and abundant mountain pastures.

As in all of western Norway, the place become overpopulated within the center nineteenth century, and cotters had been compelled to clear land a ways up the mountainsides. This problem led to emigration and within the 20-12 months length after 1845, 1,050 humans moved out of the network—maximum of them moving to America. Tourism got here to the community as early because the center of the nineteenth century, in the shape of game fishing and hunting.