Sandøy Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Møre og Romsdal
- District
- Romsdal
- Established
- 1 Jan 1867
- Preceded by
- Akerø Municipality
- Disestablished
- 1 Jan 2020
- Succeeded by
- Ålesund Municipality and Aukra Municipality
- Administrative centre
- Steinshamn
- Mayor 2015 2019
- Oddvar Myklebust ( Ap )
- Total
- 21.43 km (8.27 sq mi)
- Land
- 21.36 km (8.25 sq mi)
- Water
- 0.07 km (0.027 sq mi) 0.3%
- Rank
- # 416 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 156.2 m (512 ft)
- Density
- 57.8/km (150/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- −5.3%
- Demonym
- Sandøying
- Norwegian form
- Nynorsk
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Wikidata facts
- Demonym
- sandøying
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Møre og Romsdal
- Capital
- Steinshamn
- Population
- 1238
- Area
- 0.05336383648963229
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Haram Municipality
- Official website
- www.sandoy.kommune.no
- Image
- Ona1.jpg
- Households
- 9
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- Commons category
- Sandøy
- inception
- 1867-01-01
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2019-12-31
- language used
- Nynorsk
- located in the present-day administrative territorial entity
- Ålesund Municipality
- merged into
- Ålesund Municipality
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Encyclopedic overview
Sandøy is a former municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The 21-square-kilometre (8.1 sq mi) municipality existed from 1867 until its dissolution in 2020. The area is now divided between Aukra Municipality and Ålesund Municipality on the border of the traditional districts of Romsdal and Sunnmøre. The administrative centre was the village of Steinshamn. Other villages included Ona and Myklebust.
Prior to its dissolution in 2020, the 21.43-square-kilometre (8.27 sq mi) municipality was the 416th largest by area out of the 422 municipalities in Norway. Sandøy Municipality was the 373rd most populous municipality in Norway with a population of about 1,238. The municipality's population density was 57.8 inhabitants per square kilometre (150/sq mi) and its population had decreased by 5.3% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sandøy Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.