Dale or Dale i Sunnfjord is the administrative centre of the municipality of Fjaler

Fjaler

Fjaler is a municipality in the county of Sogn og Fjordane, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Sunnfjord. The administrative centre is the village of Dale. Other places in Fjaler include Flekke and Espedal....

 in Sogn og Fjordane

Sogn og Fjordane

is a county in Norway, bordering Møre og Romsdal, Oppland, Buskerud, and Hordaland. The county administration is in the town of Hermansverk in Leikanger municipality while the largest town is Førde....

 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 on the southern shore of the Dalsfjorden

Dalsfjorden (Sunnfjord)

Dalsfjorden is a fjord in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. It is located between the municipalities of Askvoll, Fjaler, and Gaular. The fjord is about long and it is generally about wide....

 in the northern part of Fjaler, about 6.5 kilometres (4 mi) northeast of the village of Flekke

Flekke

Flekke is a village in the municipality of Fjaler in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. It is located about south of the municipal center of Dale. The village is situated at the end of the Flekkefjorden, an arm of the Dalsfjorden...

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The population (2009) of Dale is 980, and the village has an area of 1.29 square kilometres (318.8 acre).

Notable residents

• Jakob Sande
  Jakob Sande
  Jakob Sande was a Norwegian writer, poet and folk singer from Dale in Sunnfjord. His parents were Andreas Sande and Ragna Margrete . He married Solveig Ytterlid in 1942 and they had a daughter, Siri, in 1943....
  
  (1906–1967): Norwegian writer, poet, and folk singer.
• www.fjaler.origo.no: Fjaler kommune website mangaed by the locals.
• www.fjaler.kommune.no: Home page