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Bindal Municipality

municipality in Nordland, Norway

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 )

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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.