Rindal kommune
—  Municipality  —
Coat of arms Møre og Romsdal within Norway
Rindal within Møre og Romsdal
Coordinates: 63°2′32″N 9°17′22″E / 63.04222, 9.28944
Country	Norway
County	Møre og Romsdal
District	Nordmøre
Municipality ID	NO-1567
Administrative centre	Rindal
Government
- Mayor (2003)	Ola T. Heggem (Sp)
Area (Nr. 175 in Norway)
- Total	641 km² (247.5 sq mi)
- Land	620 km² (239.4 sq mi)
Population (2004)
- Total	2,118
- Density	3/km² (7.8/sq mi)
- Change (10 years)	-4.4 %
- Rank in Norway	334
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
- Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Official language form	Neutral
Data from Statistics Norway
Website: www.rindal.kommune.no

Rindal is a municipality in the county of Møre og Romsdal, Norway.

Rindal was separated from Surnadal 1858.

The name

The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old farm Rindal (Norse Rinnudalr), since the first church was built there. The first element is the genitive case of the rivername Rinna, the last element is dalr m 'valley, dale'. The rivername is derived from the verb rinna 'run, flow'.

Until 1918 the name was written Rindalen.

Coat-of-arms

The coat-of-arms is from 1989. It shows the club of a chairman, meant to represent John Neergaard, the founder of Formannskapslovene, who was from Rindal.

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