Fiksdal or Fiksdalen
is a village in
Vestnes Municipality
Vestnes is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Møre og Romsdal Counties of Norway, county, Norway. Vestnes is part of the Districts of Norway, traditional district of Romsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the ...
in
Møre og Romsdal
Møre og Romsdal (; ) is a Counties of Norway, county in the northernmost part of Western Norway, Western Norway. It borders the counties of Trøndelag, Innlandet, and Vestland. The county administration is located in the Molde (town), town of M ...
county,
Norway
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. The village is located on the west side of the
Tomrefjorden
Tomrefjorden is a fjord in Vestnes Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. At long, it branches off of the main Romsdalsfjorden and is one of two big fjords that cut into the municipality. It is located about west of the village of ...
, about northwest of the village of
Tomra
TOMRA is a Norwegian multinational corporation manufacturing collection and sorting products, such as reverse vending machines for bottles and cans recycling, as well as machines for the food, recycling, and mining industries. With over 82,0 ...
.
Fiksdal Church is located in this village. Fiksdal is also the hometown of Norwegian international footballer
Kjetil Rekdal
Kjetil André Rekdal (born 6 November 1968) is a Norwegian football manager and a former player. He is the manager of Norwegian club Aalesund.
Rekdal began his playing career in Molde FK, playing afterwards for clubs in the Bundesliga, Ligue 1 ...
.
The village has a population (2024) of 225 and a
population density
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of .
Media gallery
Fiksdal-havn-2008-12-28.JPG, View of the local harbor
Fiksdal-skole-2008-12-28.JPG, The primary public school in the village
References
Villages in Møre og Romsdal
Vestnes
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