Sangudo facts for kids

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Hamlet
Sundial at the highway entrance of Sangudo
Sangudo Location in Alberta
Country	Canada
Province	Alberta
Region	Central Alberta
Census Division	No. 13
Municipal district	Lac Ste. Anne County
Area  (2021)
• Land	2.8 km2 (1.1 sq mi)
Elevation	680 m (2,230 ft)
Population  (2021)
• Total	298
• Density	106.3/km2 (275/sq mi)
Demonym(s)	Sangudoite
Time zone	UTC-7 (MST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-6 (MDT)
Highways	43 757
Waterways	Pembina River

Sangudo is a hamlet in Alberta, Canada within Lac Ste. Anne County. It is located on Highway 43 and the Pembina River, approximately 99 kilometres (62 mi) northwest of Edmonton.

Sangudo was formerly incorporated as a village on April 12, 1937, but dissolved and reverted to hamlet status effective September 16, 2007. Its sister village is Bukovina nad Labem in the Czech Republic.

Building in Sangudo

Demographics

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As a designated place in the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Sangudo recorded a population of 299 living in 137 of its 171 total private dwellings, a change of -6.6% from its 2011 population of 320. With a land area of 2.72 km² (1.05 sq mi), it had a population density of 109.9/km² (285/sq mi) in 2016.

Attractions

The hamlet is the home to Sangudo Speedway – a high-banked dirt oval that is a quarter mile in length. Sangudo also features a sundial tourist monument that can be seen from Highway 43.

Notable people

Gene Zwozdesky Alberta teacher, musician, politician (12th Speaker of the Alberta Legislative Assembly), grew up in Sangudo.