Forsand
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Rogaland
- District
- Ryfylke
- Established
- 1 Jan 1871
- Preceded by
- Høgsfjord Municipality
- Disestablished
- 1 Jan 2020
- Succeeded by
- Sandnes Municipality & Strand Municipality
- Administrative centre
- Forsand
- Mayor 2015 2019
- Bjarte Sveinsvoll Dagestad ( H )
- Total
- 780.06 km (301.18 sq mi)
- Land
- 698.83 km (269.82 sq mi)
- Water
- 81.23 km (31.36 sq mi) 10.4%
- Rank
- # 141 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 1,304 m (4,278 ft)
- Density
- 1.5/km (3.9/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- +5.2%
- Demonym
- Forsandbu
- Norwegian form
- Nynorsk
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Demonym
- forsandbu
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Rogaland
- Capital
- Forsand
- Population
- 1238
- Area
- 0.6093884825589786
- Elevation
- 0
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Sirdal
- Official website
- www.forsand.kommune.no
- Image
- Forsand (UBT-TO-072743 01 1).jpg
- Households
- 25
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- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2019-12-31
- Commons category
- Forsand (former municipality)
- topic's main category
- Category:Forsand
- language used
- Nynorsk
- inception
- 1871-01-01
- merged into
- Sandnes Municipality
- located in the present-day administrative territorial entity
- Sandnes Municipality
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Encyclopedic overview
Forsand is a former municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. The 780-square-kilometre (300 sq mi) municipality existed from 1871 until its dissolution in 2020. The area is now divided between Sandnes Municipality and Strand Municipality in the traditional district of Ryfylke. The administrative centre was the village of Forsand. Other villages in the municipality included Lysebotn, Øvre Espedal, Oanes, Kolabygda, and Fløyrli.
Prior to its dissolution in 2020, the 780.06-square-kilometre (301.18 sq mi) municipality was the 141st largest by area out of the 422 municipalities in Norway. Forsand Municipality was the 378th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of about 1,193. The municipality's population density was 1.5 inhabitants per square kilometre (3.9/sq mi) and its population had increased by 5.2% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Forsand” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.