Bindal Municipality
Bindal Municipality
Bindal kommune | |
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| Bindalen herred (historic name) | |
Photo showing some of the landmarks in Bindal, including the second highest mountain Heilhornet (center-right part of the image) | |
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Flag Coat of arms | |
Nordland within Norway | |
Bindal within Nordland | |
| Coordinates: 65°05′48″N 12°35′19″E / 65.09667°N 12.58861°E | |
| Country | Norway |
| County | Nordland |
| District | Helgeland |
| Established | 1 Jan 1838 |
| • Created as | Formannskapsdistrikt |
| Administrative centre | Terråk |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2024) | Frode Næsvold (Ap) |
| Area | |
• Total | 1,266.07 km2 (488.83 sq mi) |
| • Land | 1,192.23 km2 (460.32 sq mi) |
| • Water | 73.84 km2 (28.51 sq mi) 5.8% |
| • Rank | #81 in Norway |
| Highest elevation | 1,088.13 m (3,570.0 ft) |
| Population (2024) | |
• Total | 1,399 |
| • Rank | #306 in Norway |
| • Density | 1.1/km2 (2.8/sq mi) |
| • Change (10 years) | −6.9% |
| Demonym | Bindaling |
| Official language | |
| • Norwegian form | Bokmål |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| ISO 3166 code | NO-1811 |
| Website | Official website |
Bindal is a municipality in the Helgeland region in the extreme southwest part of Nordland county, Norway. The administrative centre is the village of Terråk. Other villages include Bindalseidet, Holm, Vassås, Horsfjord and Åbygda.
The 1,266-square-kilometre (489 sq mi) municipality is the 81st largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Bindal Municipality is the 306th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 1,399. The municipality's population density is 1.2 inhabitants per square kilometre (3.1/sq mi) and its population has decreased by 10% over the previous 10-year period.