Angvik
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Angvik or Angvika is a small village in the municipality of Gjemnes
Gjemnes
Gjemnes is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway on the Romsdal peninsula. It is part of the Nordmøre region. The administrative centre is Batnfjordsøra, which lies along the Batnfjorden and is a former steamship landing place...

 in Møre og Romsdal
Møre og Romsdal
is a county in the northernmost part of Western Norway. It borders the counties of Sør-Trøndelag, Oppland and Sogn og Fjordane. The county administration is located in Molde, while Ålesund is the largest city.-The name:...

 county, Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. The village is located along the western shores of the Tingvollfjorden
Tingvollfjorden (Møre og Romsdal)
The Tingvollfjorden is a fjord in the municipalities of Tingvoll, Gjemnes, Nesset, and Sunndal. The inner part of the fjord is called the Sunndalsfjord. The fjord begins at the island of Bergsøya and stretches about to the village of Sunndalsøra. The river Driva flows into the fjord at its start...

, just across the fjord from the village of Tingvoll
Tingvoll
Tingvoll is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the Nordmøre region. The administrative centre is the village of Tingvoll. Other villages include Meisingset, Kvisvik, and Torjulvågen.-General information:...

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The population of Angvik is about 300. There is a furniture
Furniture
Furniture is the mass noun for the movable objects intended to support various human activities such as seating and sleeping in beds, to hold objects at a convenient height for work using horizontal surfaces above the ground, or to store things...

 factory
Factory
A factory or manufacturing plant is an industrial building where laborers manufacture goods or supervise machines processing one product into another. Most modern factories have large warehouses or warehouse-like facilities that contain heavy equipment used for assembly line production...

, a salmon
Salmon
Salmon is the common name for several species of fish in the family Salmonidae. Several other fish in the same family are called trout; the difference is often said to be that salmon migrate and trout are resident, but this distinction does not strictly hold true...

 fish farm
Fish farming
Fish farming is the principal form of aquaculture, while other methods may fall under mariculture. Fish farming involves raising fish commercially in tanks or enclosures, usually for food. A facility that releases young fish into the wild for recreational fishing or to supplement a species'...

, a Spa Hotel, and tourist apartments. The village of Rausand
Rausand
Raudsand or Rausand is a village in the municipality of Nesset in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located on the Romsdal peninsula along the Tingvollfjorden about northeast of Eidsvåg and south of Angvika in Gjemnes. The village has a population of 265....

 in Nesset
Nesset
Nesset is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway on the Romsdal Peninsula. The administrative centre is the village of Eidsvåg. Other population centers include Rausand, Boggestranda, Myklebostad, Eresfjord, and Eikesdalen....

 lies about 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) to the south, Heggem
Heggem
Heggem is a village in the municipality of Gjemnes in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The village is located about south of Torvikbukt and about west of Angvik. The Osmarka chapel is located here. The village has a good view of the mountain Reinsfjellet, located to the northeast....

 lies about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) to the west, Torvikbukt
Torvikbukt
Torvikbukt is a village in the municipality of Gjemnes in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The village is located at the junction of the Batnfjorden and Tingvollfjorden and just northwest of the tall mountain Reinsfjellet. The village of Øre lies about to the southwest and Heggem lies about to...

 lies about 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) to the northwest–near the mountain Reinsfjellet
Reinsfjellet
Reinsfjellet is a mountain in the municipality of Gjemnes in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The tall mountain is located on the Romsdal peninsula about southeast of the village of Torvikbukt and the Batnfjord...

, and the village of Flemma
Flemma
Flemma is a village in the municipality of Gjemnes in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The village lies along the Tingvollfjorden, about north of the village of Angvik. The mountain Reinsfjellet lies about to the west....

lies about 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) to the north.
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