Bindal Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Nordland
- District
- Helgeland
- Established
- 1 Jan 1838
- Created as
- Formannskapsdistrikt
- Administrative centre
- Terråk
- Mayor 2024
- Frode Næsvold ( Ap )
- Total
- 1,266.07 km (488.83 sq mi)
- Land
- 1,192.23 km (460.32 sq mi)
- Water
- 73.84 km (28.51 sq mi) 5.8%
- Rank
- # 81 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 1,088.13 m (3,570.0 ft)
- Density
- 1.1/km (2.8/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- −6.9%
- Demonym
- Bindaling
- Norwegian form
- Bokmål
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Hovedportal - Bindal kommune
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Wikidata facts
- Demonym
- bindaling
- Population
- 1361
- Area
- 0.08
- Official website
- www.bindal.kommune.no
- Image
- Photography of Terråk.jpg
- Households
- 0
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- Commons category
- Bindal
- inception
- 1837-00-00
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Article
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.