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) | |
 Flag | |
 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 | 1852 |
| • Preceded by | Nord-Bindalen and Sør-Bindalen |
| Administrative centre | Terråk |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2024) | Frode Næsvold (Ap) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1,266.05 km2 (488.82 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 |
| Population (2023) | |
| • Total | 1,391 |
| • Rank | #304 in Norway |
| • Density | 1.2/km2 (3/sq mi) |
| • Change (10 years) |  −10% |
| Demonym | Bindaling[1] |
| Official language | |
| • Norwegian form | Bokmål |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| ISO 3166 code | NO-1811[3] |
| 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 356 municipalities in Norway. Bindal is the 304th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 1,391. 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.[4][5]
- ^ "Navn på steder og personer: Innbyggjarnamn" (in Norwegian). Språkrådet.
- ^ "Forskrift om målvedtak i kommunar og fylkeskommunar" (in Norwegian). Lovdata.no.
- ^ Bolstad, Erik; Thorsnæs, Geir, eds. (26 January 2023). "Kommunenummer". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget.
- ^ Statistisk sentralbyrå. "Table: 06913: Population 1 January and population changes during the calendar year (M)" (in Norwegian).
- ^ Statistisk sentralbyrå. "09280: Area of land and fresh water (km²) (M)" (in Norwegian).