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Sør-Aurdal

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Also known as Sør-Aurdal municipality

municipality in Innlandet, Norway

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 )

via Wikipedia infobox

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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.

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