Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Hordaland
- District
- Midhordland
- Established
- 1 Jan 1838
- Created as
- Formannskapsdistrikt
- Disestablished
- 1 Jan 2020
- Succeeded by
- Øygarden Municipality
- Administrative centre
- Skogsvåg
- Mayor 2013 2019
- Kari-Anne Landro ( H )
- Total
- 99.54 km (38.43 sq mi)
- Land
- 94.7 km (36.6 sq mi)
- Water
- 4.84 km (1.87 sq mi) 4.9%
- Rank
- # 381 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 284.6 m (934 ft)
- Density
- 70.9/km (184/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- +19.7%
- Demonym
- Sundsokning
- Norwegian form
- Nynorsk
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Demonym
- sundsokning
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Hordaland
- Capital
- Skogsvågen
- Population
- 6975
- Area
- 0.11423522477727499
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Austevoll Municipality
- Official website
- www.sund.kommune.no
- Image
- Steingjerde Sotra (sauegjerde)Muret.jpg
- Households
- 41
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- replaced by
- Øygarden Municipality
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2019-12-31
- Commons category
- Sund, Hordaland
- topic's main category
- Category:Sund, Norway
- language used
- Nynorsk
- different from
- Sund
- located in the present-day administrative territorial entity
- Øygarden Municipality
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Encyclopedic overview
Sund is a former municipality in the old Hordaland county, Norway. The 99.54-square-kilometre (38.43 sq mi) municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 2020. The area is now part of Øygarden Municipality in the traditional district of Midhordland in Vestland county. The administrative centre was the village of Skogsvågen on the island of Sotra. Other villages in the municipality included Klokkarvik, Telavåg, Kausland, and Hammarsland
Sund Municipality covered the southern third of the island of Sotra, west of the city of Bergen. It also included many smaller, surrounding islands. Sund Municipality was a predominantly rural municipality, with no major settlements, the largest being Hammarsland with approximately 900 inhabitants (in 2013). Due to the proximity to the city of Bergen, a large proportion of the population commuted to the city to work.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sund” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.