Vassås is a small village in the municipality of
Bindal
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 mu ...
in
Nordland
Nordland (; smj, Nordlánnda, sma, Nordlaante, sme, Nordlánda, en, Northland) is a county in Norway in the Northern Norway region, the least populous of all 11 counties, bordering Troms og Finnmark in the north, Trøndelag in the south, ...
county,
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...
. It is located along the Tosen arm of the
Bindalsfjorden
Bindalsfjorden is a fjord in the southern part of Nordland county, Norway.
Location
The fjord is mostly located in the municipality of Bindal with a small part in neighboring Sømna municipality.
Geography
The long fjord begins near the vil ...
, just north of the
Vassås Bridge which connects the village to the larger village of
Terråk
Terråk is the administrative centre of the municipality of Bindal in Nordland country, Norway. The village is located in the eastern part of the municipality, along the shore of the Sørfjorden arm of the Bindalsfjorden. The nearby Vassås Bridg ...
. The village of
Ã…bygda
Åbygda is a village in the municipality of Bindal in Nordland county, Norway. The village is located along the river Åbjøra, about southeast of the villages of Vassås and Terråk.
Ã…bygda is the birthplace of Otto Sverdrup, a polar exp ...
lies about to the southeast. This is also the site of
Vassås Church, the parish church for this part of Bindal.
References
Villages in Nordland
Bindal
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