Vassås is a small village in the municipality of
Bindal in
Nordland 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 the ...
. It is located along the Tosen arm of the
Bindalsfjorden, just north of the
Vassås Bridge
The Vassås Bridge ( no, Vassås bru) is a cantilever bridge that crosses the Osan fjord in the municipality of Bindal in Nordland county, Norway. The bridge is part of Norwegian County Road 1 and it connects the villages of Vassås and Terråk. T ...
which connects the village to the larger village of
Terråk. The village of
Åbygda
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.
Åbygda is the birthplace of Otto Sverdrup, a polar exp ...
lies about to the southeast. This is also the site of
Vassås Church
Vassås Church ( no, Vassås kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Bindal Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Vassås. It is one of the two churches for the Bindal parish which is part of the Sø ...
, the parish church for this part of Bindal.
References
Villages in Nordland
Bindal
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