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Sandnes is a town in the far western part of the large Sandnes Municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. The town is located at the southern end of the Gandsfjorden and it makes up the southern part of the Stavanger/Sandnes metropolitan area, the 3rd largest urban area in Norway. The city of Sandnes is the administrative centre of the vast Sandnes Municipality which stretches from the city of Sandnes in the west to the border of Agder county, about 80 kilometres (50 mi) to the northeast.The 23.35-square-kilometre (5,770-acre) town has a population (2019) of 63,375 and a population density of 2,714 inhabitants per square kilometre (7,030/sq mi). Statistics Norway classifies the two neighboring cities of Sandnes and Stavanger as one large metropolitan area known as Stavanger/Sandnes, which has a total population of 228,287 residents. The city of Sandnes lies in the western part of the municipality and the city of Stavanger lies in the far southwestern part of that municipality.