Selje is a former municipality in the old Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway and was located in the traditional district of Nordfjord.

and neighborhoods in the municipality included Barmen, Ervik, Flatraket, Hoddevik, Hoddevika, Håvik, and Leikanger.

The original municipality was identical to the historic Selje prestegjeld with the sub-parishes (sokn) of Hove and Vågsøy.

The municipality originally included all of the Stadlandet peninsula, the island of Vågsøy and the mainland area north of the mouth of the Nordfjorden.

[7] On 1 January 1910, the southwestern district of Vågsøy was separated from Selje to form two new municipalities: Nord-Vågsøy and Sør-Vågsøy.

The parts of Selje involved were the island of Silda, the Hagevik-Osmundsvåg area, and the farms of Sørpollen and Straumen.

[9][10] The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the small island of Selja since the first Selje Church was built there.

A less likely possibility is that it comes from the word salr which means "room" or "hall", referring to the local cave where Saint Sunniva and her followers dwelled after reaching the island in the 10th century.

The official blazon is "Azure, a half woman with raised hands argent" (Norwegian: På blå grunn ein halv sølv kvinnefigur med lyfta hender).

The woman is a depiction of Saint Sunniva, the royal Irish missionary who died as a martyr on the island of Selja while trying to convert he locals to Christianity.

The island of Selja is also home to the following sites: The part of Norway's mainland that is farthest west is in Selje.

The West Cape (Vestkapp) is 496 metres (1,627 ft) above sea level at the northwestern end of the Stad peninsula.

The Ervik Church is located here in memory of those who died when the coastal express ship Sanct Svithun was wrecked here after being mistakenly bombed in 1943 by Canadian planes.