Sauda Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Rogaland
- District
- Ryfylke
- Preceded by
- Suldal Municipality
- Administrative centre
- Sauda
- Mayor 2023
- Håvard Handeland ( Ap )
- Total
- 546.56 km (211.03 sq mi)
- Land
- 507.51 km (195.95 sq mi)
- Water
- 39.05 km (15.08 sq mi) 7.1%
- Rank
- # 196 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 1,602 m (5,256 ft)
- Density
- 8.4/km (22/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- −2.3%
- Demonym
- Saudabu
- Norwegian form
- Nynorsk
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Iso 3166 code
- NO-1135
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Norway
- Demonym
- saudabu
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Rogaland
- Capital
- Sauda
- Population
- 4603
- Area
- 0.63
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Ullensvang Municipality
- Highest point
- Kyrkjenuten
- Official website
- www.sauda.kommune.no
- Image
- Saudafjorden.png
- Households
- 65
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- Commons category
- Sauda
- topic's main category
- Category:Sauda
- twinned administrative body
- San Juan del Sur
- separated from
- Suldal Municipality
- language used
- Nynorsk
- inception
- 1842-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Sauda (listen) is a municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Sauda, where most of the population lives. Other villages in the municipality include Saudasjøen and Amdal. Despite being in the northern part of the region of Ryfylke, Sauda participates in the Haugalandet Council and is under the jurisdiction of the Haugaland og Sunnhordland District Court.
The 546.56-square-kilometre (211.03 sq mi) municipality is the 196th largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Sauda Municipality is the 190th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 4,603. The municipality's population density is 8.4 inhabitants per square kilometre (22/sq mi) and its population has decreased by 2.3% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sauda Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.