Vestre Gausdal

Vestre Gausdal Municipality

*Vestre Gausdal herred*
Vestre Gausdal Municipality Vestre Gausdal herred
Former municipality
	View of the Bødalen area in Vestre Gausdal
	Oppland within Norway
	Vestre Gausdal within Oppland
	Coordinates: 61°12′N 10°09′E / 61.2°N 10.15°E
Country	Norway
County	Oppland
District	Gudbrandsdal
Established	1879
• Preceded by	Gausdal Municipality
Disestablished	1 Jan 1962
• Succeeded by	Gausdal Municipality
Administrative centre	Forset
Area (upon dissolution)
• Total	959 km2 (370 sq mi)
Population (1962)
• Total	2,590
• Density	2.7/km2 (7.0/sq mi)
Demonym	Gausdøl
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	NO-0523
	Data from Statistics Norway

Vestre Gausdal is a former municipality in the old Oppland county, Norway. The 959-square-kilometre (370 sq mi) municipality^[3] existed from 1879 until its dissolution in 1962. The area is now part of Gausdal Municipality. The administrative centre was the village of Forset.^[4]

^ "Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.
^ Bolstad, Erik; Thorsnæs, Geir, eds. (26 January 2023). "Kommunenummer". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget.
^ Helland, Amund (1913). "Østre Gausdal herred". V Kristians amt. Tredie del. Norges land og folk (in Norwegian). Kristiania, Norway: H. Aschehoug & Company. p. 399. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
^ Thorsnæs, Geir, ed. (8 February 2022). "Vestre Gausdal (tidligere kommune)". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 18 July 2022.