Søndre Land

Søndre Land Municipality

*Søndre Land kommune*
Søndre Land Municipality Søndre Land kommune
Municipality
	Flag Coat of arms
	Innlandet within Norway
	Søndre Land within Innlandet
	Coordinates: 60°40′37″N 10°16′44″E / 60.67694°N 10.27889°E
Country	Norway
County	Innlandet
District	Land, Norway
Administrative centre	Hov
Government
• Mayor (2003)	Reidar Eriksen (Søndre Land Bygdeliste)
Area
• Total	728 km2 (281 sq mi)
• Land	659 km2 (254 sq mi)
• Rank	#150 in Norway
Population (2004)
• Total	6,042
• Rank	#165 in Norway
• Density	9/km2 (20/sq mi)
• Change (10 years)	−3.7%
Demonym	Søndrelending
Official language
• Norwegian form	Bokmål
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	NO-3447
Website	Official website
	Data from Statistics Norway

Søndre Land is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Land. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Hov.

The old municipality of Land was divided into Søndre Land and Nordre Land in 1847. The area of Fluberg was separated from Søndre Land to become a separate municipality on 1 January 1914, but it was merged back into Søndre Land on 1 January 1962.

General information

Name

The Old Norse form of the name was just Land which means "land". Therefore, the meaning of the name Søndre Land is "(the) southern (part of) Land". The parish and municipality of Land was divided in 1847.^[4]

Coat-of-arms

The coat-of-arms is from modern times. They were granted on 21 June 1985. The arms show three yellow tree trunks on a blue background. The blue colour of the shield symbolises the Randsfjorden, which borders the municipality. The tree trunks symbolise the importance of forestry and the sawmills in the municipality.^[5]

**Number of minorities (1st and 2nd generation) in Søndre Land by country of origin in 2017**^[6]
Ancestry	Number
Poland	77
Somalia	57
Netherlands	36
Eritrea	32
Denmark	24
Germany	22
Afghanistan	18

Geography

Søndre Land is bordered on the north by the municipality of Nordre Land, on the east by Gjøvik and Vestre Toten, on the west by Sør-Aurdal, and on the south by Gran in Oppland county. It is also bordered to the west by Ringerike in Buskerud county.

Søndre Land is 39.2 kilometres (24.4 mi) on a north–south axis and 31.3 kilometres (19.4 mi) east-west. It lies in the south of Oppland and on the northern end of Randsfjord. The highest elevation is Skjellinghovde with a height of 856 metres (2,808 ft). The main population centers include Holmen and Hov.

Notable residents

Christian Ancher (1711-1765) a Norwegian merchant, timber trader and ship owner
Peder Aadnes (1739–1792) a Norwegian rural painter
Jørgen Meinich (1820-1911) a Norwegian jurist and wood processor
Martin Smeby (1891-1975), politician, Mayor of Søndre Land in 1930's
Ola Viker (1897-1942) a Norwegian novelist and lawyer
Håvard Narum (born 1944) a Norwegian journalist and author.
Ola Skjølaas (1941-2006) a Norwegian veterinarian, civil servant and politician
Per Blom (1946-2013) a Norwegian film director ^[7]
Finn Thrana (1958–2006) a Norwegian barrister and civil servant for Nasjonal Samling
Ellen Andrea Wang (born 1986) a Norwegian jazz double bass player, singer and composer

References

^ "Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.
^ "Forskrift om målvedtak i kommunar og fylkeskommunar" (in Norwegian). Lovdata.no.
^ Bolstad, Erik; Thorsnæs, Geir, eds. (2023-01-26). "Kommunenummer". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget.
^ Rygh, Oluf (1900). Norske gaardnavne: Kristians amt (Anden halvdel) (in Norwegian) (4 ed.). Kristiania, Norge: W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri. p. 179.
^ Norske Kommunevåpen (1990). "Nye kommunevåbener i Norden". Retrieved 2009-01-01.
^ "Immigrants and Norwegian-born to immigrant parents, by immigration category, country background and percentages of the population". ssb.no. Archived from the original on 2 July 2015. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
^ IMDb Database retrieved 25 December 2020

External links

Media related to Søndre Land at Wikimedia Commons
The dictionary definition of Søndre Land at Wiktionary
Municipal fact sheet from Statistics Norway
Oppland travel guide from Wikivoyage

[1] "Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.

[2] "Forskrift om målvedtak i kommunar og fylkeskommunar" (in Norwegian). Lovdata.no.

[3] Bolstad, Erik; Thorsnæs, Geir, eds. (2023-01-26). "Kommunenummer". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget.

[4] Rygh, Oluf (1900). Norske gaardnavne: Kristians amt (Anden halvdel) (in Norwegian) (4 ed.). Kristiania, Norge: W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri. p. 179.

[5] Norske Kommunevåpen (1990). "Nye kommunevåbener i Norden". Retrieved 2009-01-01.

[6] "Immigrants and Norwegian-born to immigrant parents, by immigration category, country background and percentages of the population". ssb.no. Archived from the original on 2 July 2015. Retrieved 29 June 2015.

[7] IMDb Database retrieved 25 December 2020

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