Editing Sogn og Fjordane (section)

==Name==
The name ''Sogn og Fjordane'' was created in 1919; a literal translation is: ''Sogn and the fjords.'' The first element is the name of the region of [[Sogn]], located in the southern part of the county. The last element is the plural definite form of ''fjord'', which refers to the two regions in the county called [[Nordfjord]] and [[Sunnfjord]] in the northern and central parts of the county.

Prior to 1919, the name of the county was ''[[Bergenhus len|Nordre Bergenhus amt]]'' which meant ''"(the) northern (part of) Bergenhus [[amt (subnational entity)|amt]]"''. (The old [[Bergenhus amt]], created in 1662, was divided into northern and southern halves in 1763.)
{{See also|Hordaland}}