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14 February 2017
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Adopted on 1 December 1961.
Proportions 7:9.
Mark Sensen, 18 November 1995
Gules, under a royal crown two crossed axes Or. The motive is taken from a
coat of arms from a letter talking about Haakon Magnusson's coronation in
1344.
Željko Heimer, 19 November 1995
In 2017 the government decided to abolish some counties and merge them with
other counties to form larger ones, reducing the number of counties from 19 to
11, to be implemented from 2020.:"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counties_of_Norway
Hordaland and Sogn og
Fjordane became Vestland.
Valentin Poposki, 16 January 2020