Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Innlandet
- District
- Valdres
- Established
- 1 Jan 1838
- Created as
- Formannskapsdistrikt
- Administrative centre
- Bagn
- Mayor 2019
- Marit Hougsrud ( Sp )
- Total
- 1,109.05 km (428.21 sq mi)
- Land
- 1,068.25 km (412.45 sq mi)
- Water
- 40.80 km (15.75 sq mi) 3.7%
- Rank
- # 101 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 1,242.86 m (4,077.6 ft)
- Density
- 2.5/km (6.5/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- −9.5%
- Demonym
- Søraurdøl
- Norwegian form
- Neutral
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
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Encyclopedic overview
Sør-Aurdal is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Valdres. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Bagn. Other villages in the municipality include Begna, Hedalen, and Begnadalen.
The 1,109-square-kilometre (428 sq mi) municipality is the 101st largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Sør-Aurdal is the 238th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 2,822. The municipality's population density is 2.5 inhabitants per square kilometre (6.5/sq mi) and its population has decreased by 9.5% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sør-Aurdal” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.