Strand, Vestfold

Strand is a village and statistical area (grunnkrets) in Sandefjord municipality, Norway.

The statistical area Strand, which also can include the peripheral parts of the village as well as the surrounding countryside, has a population of 164.[1]

The village Strand is located in the middle part of Østerøya peninsula. It is considered a part of the urban settlement Sandefjord, which covers the greater Sandefjord city area and stretches towards Stokke and into peripheral parts of Larvik municipality.[2] The urban settlement Sandefjord has a population of 39,849, of which 39,144 people live within Sandefjord.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Statistics Norway (2007). "Statistics bank".
  2. ↑ Statistics Norway (2005). "Kart over tettsteder og sentrumsområder 1. januar 2005" (PDF).
  3. ↑ Statistics Norway (2006). "Urban settlements. Population and area, by municipality. 1 January 2006".


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