Suldal

Suldal kommune
Municipality
View of the lake Suldalsvatnet
Coat of arms Rogaland within Norway
Suldal within Rogaland
Coordinates: 59°28′06″N 06°29′59″E / 59.46833°N 6.49972°E / 59.46833; 6.49972Coordinates: 59°28′06″N 06°29′59″E / 59.46833°N 6.49972°E / 59.46833; 6.49972
Country	Norway
County	Rogaland
District	Ryfylke
Administrative centre	Sand
Government
• Mayor (2007)	Torkel Myklebust (Sp)
Area
• Total	1,736.88 km2 (670.61 sq mi)
• Land	1,588.50 km2 (613.32 sq mi)
• Water	148.38 km2 (57.29 sq mi)
Area rank	39 in Norway
Population (2014)
• Total	3,892
• Rank	237 in Norway
• Density	2.5/km2 (6/sq mi)
• Change (10 years)	-0.2 %
Demonym(s)	Suldøl
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
ISO 3166 code	NO-1134
Official language form	Nynorsk
Website	www.suldal.kommune.no
Data from Statistics Norway

Suldal is a municipality in the northeast corner of Rogaland county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Ryfylke. Since 1965, the administrative centre of Suldal is the village of Sand i Ryfylke (prior to that it was the village of Suldalsosen). Other villages in Suldal include Hålandsosen, Jelsa, Marvik, Nesflaten, and Suldalsosen.

The parish of Suledal was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). In 1842, the northern district of the municipality (population: 1,584) was separated to become the new municipality of Søvde. This left Suldal with 2,030 residents. On 1 January 1965, the municipality was greatly expanded due to recommendations of the Schei Committee. Suldal (population: 1,412) was merged with the neighboring municipalities of Sand (population: 1,135) and Erfjord (population: 610) as well as all of the municipality of Jelsa except for the parts on the island of Ombo (population: 928) and the parts of Imsland municipality located south of the Vindafjorden (population: 61). On 1 January 1978, the parts of Vikedal municipality located southeast of the Vindafjorden on the Ropeid peninsula (population: 13) was transferred to Suldal.