Sande, Vestfold
| Sande kommune | |||
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| Municipality | |||
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 Sande within Vestfold | |||
| Coordinates: 59°35′50″N 10°13′25″E / 59.59722°N 10.22361°ECoordinates: 59°35′50″N 10°13′25″E / 59.59722°N 10.22361°E | |||
| Country | Norway | ||
| County | Vestfold | ||
| Administrative centre | Sande i Vestfold | ||
| Government | |||
| • Mayor (2003) | Karl Einar Haslestad (Ap) | ||
| Area | |||
| • Total | 178 km2 (69 sq mi) | ||
| • Land | 174 km2 (67 sq mi) | ||
| Area rank | 346 in Norway | ||
| Population (2004) | |||
| • Total | 7,591 | ||
| • Rank | 128 in Norway | ||
| • Density | 44/km2 (110/sq mi) | ||
| • Change (10 years) | 9.3 % | ||
| Demonym | Sandesokning[1] | ||
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | ||
| ISO 3166 code | NO-0713 | ||
| Official language form | Bokmål | ||
| Website |
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Sande is a municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of "Sande i Vestfold". The municipality of Sande was established on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt).
The municipality is located about 60 kilometres (37 mi) (50 minutes driving time) south of Oslo, and lies beautifully by the sea. In recent years, the administrative 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.
General information
Name
The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Sande farm (Old Norse: Sandvin), since the first church was built here. The first element is sandr which means "sand" and the last element is vin meaning "meadow" or "pasture".[2]
Coat-of-arms
The coat-of-arms is from modern times. They were granted on 19 December 1986. The arms represent a silver-colored Sandebukta bay, with its typical triangular shape, surrounded by the forests and mountains.[3]
Sister cities
The following cities are twinned with Sande:[4]
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Akaa, Western Finland, Finland -
Klippan, Skåne County, Sweden
Famous inhabitants
- Carl I. Hagen, former Vice President of the Norwegian Parliament and chairman of the Progress Party from 1978 until 2006.
- Rune Høydahl, former silver medalist in the World Mountain Bike Championship
References
- ↑ "Personnemningar til stadnamn i Noreg" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.
- ↑ Rygh, Oluf (1907). Norske gaardnavne: Jarlsberg og Larviks amt (in Norwegian) (6 ed.). Kristiania, Norge: W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri. p. 26.
- ↑ Norske Kommunevåpen (1990). "Nye kommunevåbener i Norden". Retrieved 2009-01-14.
- ↑ "Om Sande". Sande kommune. Retrieved 2009-01-14. (Norwegian)
External links
Media related to Sande, Vestfold at Wikimedia Commons
The dictionary definition of Sande at Wiktionary- Municipal fact sheet from Statistics Norway
Vestfold travel guide from Wikivoyage
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