Official Name: | Valen |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Vestland#Norway |
Pushpin Label Position: | right |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of the village |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Norway |
Subdivision Name1: | Western Norway |
Subdivision Name2: | Vestland |
Subdivision Type3: | District |
Subdivision Name3: | Sunnhordland |
Subdivision Type4: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name4: | Kvinnherad |
Utc Offset1: | +01:00 |
Utc Offset1 Dst: | +02:00 |
Postal Code Type: | Post Code |
Postal Code: | 5451 Valen |
Elevation M: | 34 |
Elevation Footnotes: | [1] |
Coordinates: | 59.8317°N 5.7836°W |
Valen is a village in Kvinnherad municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The village is located on the mainland coast overlooking the island of Halsnøy to the south. The undersea Halsnøy Tunnel connects Halsnøy island to the mainland just to the west of Valen, in the neighboring village of Sunde.[2] The village has a shop, a kindergarten and primary school, and a mental hospital. There is also a horseback riding center, a marina, and Valen Church.
The village of Valen is grouped together with the neighboring village of Sunde by Statistics Norway which calls it the Sunde/Valen "urban area". The 1.92km2 urban area has a population (2019) of 2,272 and a population density of .[3]