Sunde, Kvinnherad

Sunde
Village
Sunde
Location in Hordaland county
Sunde
Sunde (Norway)
Coordinates: 59°50′10″N 05°42′48″E / 59.83611°N 5.71333°E / 59.83611; 5.71333Coordinates: 59°50′10″N 05°42′48″E / 59.83611°N 5.71333°E / 59.83611; 5.71333
Country Norway
Region Western Norway
County Hordaland
District Sunnhordland
Municipality Kvinnherad
Elevation[1] 4 m (13 ft)
Time zone UTC+01:00 (CET)
  Summer (DST) UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Post Code 5450 Sunde i Sunnhordland

Sunde is a village in Kvinnherad municipality in Hordaland county, Norway. The village is located along the Hardangerfjorden, just north of the island of Halsnøya. The northern entrance to the Halsnøy Tunnel is located in Sunde. The large urban village of Husnes lies just to the north of Sunde, on the other end of the lake Onarheimsvatnet.

The village of Sunde is grouped together with the neighboring village of Valen (to the east) by Statistics Norway which calls it the Sunde/Valen "urban area". The 1.9-square-kilometre (470-acre) urban area of Sunde/Valen has a population (2013) of 2,258 which gives the area a population density of 1,188 inhabitants per square kilometre (3,080/sq mi).[2]

References

  1. "Sunde, Kvinnherad (Hordaland)" (in Norwegian). yr.no. Retrieved 2015-03-17.
  2. Statistisk sentralbyrå (1 January 2013). "Urban settlements. Population and area, by municipality".


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