Mandalen, Norway
December 24, 2012 by staff
Mandalen, Norway, Mandal (help·info) is a town and municipality in Vest-Agder county, Norway. Mandalselva is a salmon river that flows through the town and has its river mouth outside town. Mandal has many small, white-painted wooden houses, which is typical of towns at the South Coast of Norway (S?rlandet). The administrative center of the municipality is the town of Mandal.
The town of Mandal was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). The rural municipalities of Halse og Harkmark and Holum were merged with Mandal on 1 January 1964.
Mandal borders Lindesnes to the west and northwest, Marnardal to the north, S?gne to the east. It is the southernmost town of Norway and the skerry Pysen (south of the town) is the southernmost point of land.
Besides Mandal proper, Mandal municipality includes the villages (delomr?de) of Bykjernen, Skjebstad, S?num-Lundevik, Skogsfjord-Hesland, Holum, Harkmark, Skinsnes-Ime, Tregde-Skjern?y.
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