Iveland is a village and municipality in Aust-Agder county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Sørlandet. The administrative center is the village of Birketveit.

The municipality was established on 1 January 1886 when the old municipality of Hornnes og Iveland was split into two municipalities: Iveland (population: 1,103) and Hornnes (population: 1,113). The municipal boundaries have not changed since that time.

The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Iveland farm (Old Norse: Ífuland), since the first church was built there. The first element is the genitive case of the river name Ífa (now Frøysåna) and the last element is land which means "land" or "farm". The old river name is probably derived from the Norse word ýr which means "yew" (Taxus baccata).

The coat-of-arms is from modern times. They were granted on 9 October 1987. The arms show a stonemason's hammer which symbolizes the importance of mining in the area and the green background represents forestry and agriculture.

Although nothing is found in written sources about Iveland before the 15th century, there is evidence of occupation for thousands of years prior to that. Stone Age implements have been found which are four-five thousand years old. A King’s road (Norwegian: Kongevegen) which allowed for horse travel went in an east-west direction through the area and was in use as early as the 9th century, and perhaps before. But the first written record of farms created by clearing the land goes back 600 years.

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