Søgne

Søgne kommune
Municipality
View of Trysnes in Søgne
Coat of arms Vest-Agder within Norway
Søgne within Vest-Agder
Coordinates: 58°05′39″N 07°46′21″E / 58.09417°N 7.77250°E / 58.09417; 7.77250Coordinates: 58°05′39″N 07°46′21″E / 58.09417°N 7.77250°E / 58.09417; 7.77250
Country	Norway
County	Vest-Agder
District	Sørlandet
Administrative centre	Tangvall
Government
• Mayor (2015)	Astrid Hilde (Ap)
Area
• Total	151.26 km2 (58.40 sq mi)
• Land	144.09 km2 (55.63 sq mi)
• Water	7.17 km2 (2.77 sq mi)
Area rank	356 in Norway
Population (2016)
• Total	11,260
• Rank	103 in Norway
• Density	78.1/km2 (202/sq mi)
• Change (10 years)	17.2 %
Demonym(s)	Søgnesokning
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
ISO 3166 code	NO-1018
Official language form	Bokmål
Website	www.sogne.kommune.no
Data from Statistics Norway

Søgne is a municipality in Vest-Agder county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Sørlandet. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Tangvall. Other villages in Søgne include Ausviga, Eig, Høllen, Langenes, Lohne, Lunde, Ny-Hellesund, Trysnes, Vedderheia, Ålo, and Åros.

The parish of Sygne (later spelled Søgne) was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). on 1 July 1913, the northern half of Søgne (population: 822) was separated to form the new municipality of Greipstad. This left Søgne with 2,609 residents. During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee. Søgne municipality remained generally the same during this time, however, there were a couple of small changes to the municipal boundaries. On 1 January 1964, the Stubstad area of neighboring Holum municipality (population: 9) and the Brunvatne area of neighboring Øyslebø municipality (population: 44) were both transferred to Søgne municipality. Then on 1 January 1965, the unpopulated Svalemyren area of neighboring Mandal municipality was transferred to Søgne.