Sande Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Møre og Romsdal
- District
- Sunnmøre
- Established
- 1 Jan 1867
- Preceded by
- Herøy Municipality
- Administrative centre
- Larsnes
- Mayor 2023
- Dag Arne Vaagen ( H )
- Total
- 93.24 km (36.00 sq mi)
- Land
- 90.17 km (34.81 sq mi)
- Water
- 3.07 km (1.19 sq mi) 3.3%
- Rank
- # 332 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 659.83 m (2,164.8 ft)
- Density
- 26.1/km (68/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- −7.5%
- Demonym
- Sandeværing
- Norwegian form
- Nynorsk
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Norway
- Demonym
- sandssokning
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Møre og Romsdal
- Capital
- Larsnes
- Population
- 2437
- Area
- 0.13
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Stad Municipality
- Official website
- www.sande-mr.kommune.no
- Image
- Rovdefjorden.JPG
- Households
- 28
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- topic's main category
- Category:Sande, Møre og Romsdal
- Commons category
- Sande, Møre og Romsdal
- language used
- Nynorsk
- inception
- 1867-01-01
- separated from
- Herøy Municipality
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Encyclopedic overview
Sande is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the Sunnmøre region. The administrative centre is the village of Larsnes on the island of Gurskøya. Other villages in Sande include Gjerdsvika, Haugsbygda, Sandshamn, Bringsinghaug, and Voksa.
The 93-square-kilometre (36 sq mi) municipality is the 332nd largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Sande Municipality is the 261st most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 2,438. The municipality's population density is 26.1 inhabitants per square kilometre (68/sq mi) and its population has decreased by 7.5% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sande Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.