Espeland is a village in the borough of Arna in the municipality of

Bergen Bergen (, ) is a city and municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestland county on the Western Norway, west coast of Norway. Bergen is the list of towns and cities in Norway, second-largest city in Norway after the capital Oslo. By May 20 ...

Vestland Vestland is a Counties of Norway, county in Norway. The county is located in Western Norway, and its administrative centre is Bergen, where the executive and political leadership is based. The County governor (Norway), County Governor is based in ...

county,

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...

. Espeland is located north of Lake Haukeland () and Mount Livarden. The village of

Indre Arna Indre Arna is a suburban village in the borough of Arna in the municipality of Bergen in Vestland county, Norway. While Indre Arna is relatively far from most of the city centre by road, there is an 8-minute train journey through the mountain U ...

lies about to the north. The village has a population (2012) of 2,182 and a

population density Population density (in agriculture: Standing stock (disambiguation), standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area. It is mostly applied to humans, but sometimes to other living organisms too. It is a key geog ...

of . Starting in 2013, Espeland has been included in the urban area of Arna and separate population statistics are no longer tracked. Espeland was the site of the

Espeland concentration camp Espeland detention camp (Norwegian language, Norwegian: ''Espeland fangeleir'', German language, German: ''Polizeihäftlingslager Espeland'') was an internment camp opened in 1943 by Nazi Germany in German occupation of Norway, occupied Norway ne ...

() built under the direction of German occupation forces between 1942 and 1943.

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Villages in Vestland Populated places in Bergen {{Bergen-stub