- Sande, Vestfold
Infobox_Kommune
name=Sande
county=Vestfold
idnumber=0713
landscape=
capital=Sande i Vestfold
governor=Karl Einar Haslestad (Ap)
governor_as_of=2003
arearank=346
area=178
arealand=174
areapercent=0.05
population_as_of=2004
populationrank=128
population=7,591
populationpercent=0.17
populationdensity=44
populationincrease=9.3
language=Bokmål
lat_deg=59| lat_min=35| lat_sec=50| lon_deg=10| lon_min=13| lon_sec=25
utm_zone=32V| utm_northing=6607200 |utm_easting=0569076| geo_cat=adm2nd
munwebpage=www.sande-ve.kommune.no
Sande is a municipality in the county (Norwegian: "fylke") of
Vestfold ,Norway .Sande was established as a municipality
January 1 ,1838 (seeformannskapsdistrikt ).The municipality is located about 50 minutes driving (approximately 60 kilometers) south of Oslo, and lies beautifully by the Sea. In recent years the center of Sande has grown significantly due to a large number of new apartments and stores.
Parts of the
Olsenbanden -movie "Olsenbanden tar gull" from 1973 was filmed in Sande, and another part in Stavern.The name
The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old farm Sande (Norse "Sandvin"), since the first church was built here. The first element is "sandr" m 'sand', the last element is "vin" f 'meadow, pasture'.
Coat-of-arms
The coat-of-arms is from modern times (1986). The figure is meant to represent Sandebukta ('the bay of Sande').
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