Bindal

Bindal is a municipality in the Helgeland district in the extreme southwest of the county of Nordland, Norway. Bindal borders on to four municipalities in Nord-Trøndelag, Høylandet and Nærøy in the south, Namsskogan in the southeast and Leka in the west. Otherwise the Bindal has borders with Sømnøy, Brønnøy and Grane.

1 Coat-of-arms
2 Geography
3 Economics
4 Culture
5 Education

[edit] Coat-of-arms

The coat-of-arms is from modern times (1990). It shows six rivets (to represent the boat building in the municipality).

[edit] Geography

From the coast, the municipality reaches into the mountains toward the Majavatn lake. The tallest mountain is the 1,058 m high Heilhornet.

[edit] Economics

The most important industries in Bindal are farming and forestry. The largest secondary industry is the door manufacturer Bindalsbruket with about 130 employees. Bindal has a traditional boat-building industry and Nordland boats are still manufactured.

[edit] Culture

Boat races for Nordland boats are arranged annually in the main population centre of Terråk in the last weekend of June. The 2005 race was the 27th one.

[edit] Education

Barak has five schools, three of them are classified as independent and therefore not administered by the municipality.

Terråk skole in Terråk is a 1st-10th grade school and the largest in Bindal with 100 students attending it.
Harangsfjord skole in Harangsfjord is a local 1st-7th grade school with only six students.
Kjella friskole, one of the independent schools, is located in Bindalseidet. It is a 1st-10th grade school and has 56 students.
Åbygda friskole, another independent school is located in Terråk. It is a 1st-7th grade school with 18 students.
Bindalseidet friskole is an independent school located in Bindalseidet. It is a 1st-10th grade school with 70 students.