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Jølstravatn
Location	Jølster (Sogn og Fjordane)
Coordinates	61°29′45″N, 06°07′54″E
Basin countries	Norway
Surface area	39. Jølster is a municipality in the county of Sogn og Fjordane, Norway. is a county (fylke in Norway, bordering Møre og Romsdal, Oppland, Buskerud, and Hordaland. A drainage basin is an extent of Land where Water from Rain or Snow melt drains downhill into a body of water such as a River, 01 km²
Max. depth	233 m
Shore length¹	68. 48 km
Surface elevation	207 m
References	NVE
¹ Shore length is not a well-defined measure. The Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate ( Norwegian: Norges vassdrags- og energidirektorat or NVE) is a Norwegian Government

Kjøsnesfjorden, the eastern part of lake Jølstravatnet

Jølstravatn (or Jølstravatnet^[1]) is a lake in Jølster municipality in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. A lake (from Latin lacus) is a Terrain feature (or Physical feature) a body of Liquid on the surface of a world that is localized to the Jølster is a municipality in the county of Sogn og Fjordane, Norway. is a county (fylke in Norway, bordering Møre og Romsdal, Oppland, Buskerud, and Hordaland. Norway ( Norwegian: Norge ( Bokmål) or Noreg ( Nynorsk) officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Constitutional It releases its water by almost 20 km long Jølstra river into Førdefjorden, a typical Fjord. Førdefjorden is a Fjord in Sogn og Fjordane. The traditional landscape of Sunnfjord lies around the fjord A fjord or fiord (fjɔːd|fiːɔːd or fiːɔːd is a long narrow Inlet with steep sides created in a valley carved by glacial activity. The impressive eastern part of Jølstravatn is called Kjøsnesfjorden, though it is no part of the sea.

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^ The suffix "-et" is a form of the Norwegian language definite article and means "the". There are at least 450000 fresh water Lakes in Norway. Fewer than 400 have an area of more than 5 km2. Norwegian ( norsk) is a North Germanic Language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is an official language Hence Jølstravatnet is equivalent to "the Jølstravatn. " Both forms can be found in English language text.

Førdefjorden and Jølstravatn in geographical relation to Sognefjorden

Førdefjorden is a Fjord in Sogn og Fjordane. The traditional landscape of Sunnfjord lies around the fjord The Sognefjord ( Sognefjorden) is the largest Fjord in Norway, and the second longest in the world after Scoresby Sund on

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