Official Name: | Sandstad |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Norway Sør-Trøndelag#Norway |
Pushpin Label Position: | top |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Sør-Trøndelag |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Norway |
Subdivision Name1: | Trøndelag |
Subdivision Name2: | Trøndelag |
Subdivision Name3: | Fosen |
Subdivision Type4: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name4: | Hitra |
Utc Offset1: | +01:00 |
Utc Offset1 Dst: | +02:00 |
Population As Of: | 2018 |
Population Total: | 229 |
Postal Code Type: | Post Code |
Postal Code: | 7246 Sandstad |
Coordinates: | 63.5224°N 9.0954°W |
Elevation M: | 17 |
Elevation Footnotes: | [1] |
Sandstad is a village in Hitra municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The village is located along the Trondheimsleia on the southeastern coast of the island of Hitra, about southwest of the village of Hestvika. The north entrance to the Hitra Tunnel lies just south of the village of Sandstad. The Terningen lighthouse lies in the Trondheimsleia, about southwest of the village. In 2018, there were about 229 residents in the village. Sandstad Church is located here.[2]
The village was the administrative centre of the old municipality of Sandstad which existed from 1 July 1914 until its dissolution on 1 January 1964.[3]