Sangudo is a

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, Canada within

Lac Ste. Anne County Lac Ste. Anne County is a municipal district in central Alberta, Canada. It is located in Census Division 13, north west of Edmonton. Highway 43 stretches across this county. Its municipal office is located in the Hamlet of Sangudo. The ...

. It is located on Highway 43 and the

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, approximately northwest of

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. 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.

Demographics

In the

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conducted by

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, Sangudo had a population of 298 living in 153 of its 178 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 299. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. As a designated place in the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Sangudo had a population of 299 living in 137 of its 171 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2011 population of 320. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2016.

Industry

The main sources of revenue for the hamlet are tourism from traffic along Highway 43, oil production, and agriculture (mostly cattle ranching).

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. Speedway is closed and there is amazing camping at Deep Creek Campground right on the pembina in sangudo

Notable people

Gene Zwozdesky Eugene Zwozdesky, (July 24, 1948 – January 6, 2019) was a Canadian politician in the province of Alberta. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1993 to 2015, and was the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly from 2012 to 2015. ...

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

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{{Alberta, hamlets=yes Designated places in Alberta Former villages in Alberta Hamlets in Alberta Lac Ste. Anne County Populated places disestablished in 2007

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