Sand is a village and former municipality in Rogaland

Rogaland

is a county in Western Norway, bordering Hordaland, Telemark, Aust-Agder and Vest-Agder. It is the center of the Norwegian petroleum industry, and as a result of this, Rogaland has the lowest unemployment rate of any county in Norway, 1.1%...

 county, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

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The municipality was created by a split from Jelsa

Jelsa, Norway

Jelsa is a former municipality in Rogaland county, Norway.The parish of Jælse was established as a municipality January 1, 1838 . In 1859 the municipality was divided, the district of Sand becoming a municipality of its own...

 in 1859. At that time Sand had 1,600 inhabitants.

On 1 January 1965 Sand was incorporated into the neighboring municipality Suldal

Suldal

Suldal is a municipality in the northeast of Rogaland county, Norway located in the Ryfylke historically traditional district. Sand i Ryfylke is a the administrative center of Suldal....

. Prior to the merger Sand had 1,135 inhabitants.

The village Sand has a population of 1,157. It is the administrative centre of Suldal municipality.