Rogaland

Rogaland is a county in Norway, bordering Hordaland, Telemark, Aust-Agder and Vest-Agder.

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Rogaland is a coastal region with fjords, beaches and islands, the most important island being Karm?y. Boknafjorden is the largest bay, with many fjords branching off from it. The inner, fjord-rich part of the county is called Ryfylke; the landscape to the north of Boknafjorden, around the city of Haugesund, is called Haugalandet; and to the south of Boknafjorden, from the cities of Stavanger and Sandnes, the flat, agricultural plain of J?ren stretches down to a bit north of the city of Egersund. The extreme south of the county is made up of the rocky hill landscape called Dalane.

County: Originally, in continental Europe, a county was the land under the jurisdiction of a count. Counts are called "earls" in post-Celtic Great Britain and Ireland - the term is from Old Norse jarl and was introduced by the Vikings - but there is no correlation between "county" and "earldom." Rather, t...

Norway: The Kingdom of Norway is a Nordic country on the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, bordering Sweden, Finland and Russia, with territorial waters bordering Danish and British waters. It has a very elongated form and has an extensive coastline along the North Atlantic Ocean, where Norway'...

Hordaland: Hordaland is a county in Norway, bordering Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Telemark and Rogaland. Hordaland is the third largest county after Akershus and Oslo. The county administration is in Bergen....