Sand, Rogaland

Sand, Rogaland

Sand is a village and former municipality in Rogaland county, Norway.

The municipality was created by a split from Jelsa in 1859. At that time Sand had 1,600 inhabitants.

On 1 January 1965 Sand was incorporated into the neighboring municipality Suldal. Prior to the merger Sand had 1,135 inhabitants [cite paper | author=Dag Jukvam / Statistics Norway | title=Historisk oversikt over endringer i kommune- og fylkesinndelingen | date=1999 | url=http://www.ssb.no/emner/00/90/rapp_9913/rapp_9913.pdfl] .

The village Sand has a population of 1,157 [cite paper | author=Statistics Norway | title=Urban settlements. Population and area, by municipality. 1 January 2006 | date=2006 | url=http://www.ssb.no/english/subjects/02/01/10/beftett_en/tab-2006-07-05-01-en.html] . It is the administrative centre of Suldal municipality.

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