Mandal, Norway

Mandal kommune
Municipality
View of Sjøsanden, a beach in Mandal
Coat of arms Vest-Agder within Norway
Mandal within Vest-Agder
Coordinates: 58°02′45″N 07°29′44″E / 58.04583°N 7.49556°E / 58.04583; 7.49556Coordinates: 58°02′45″N 07°29′44″E / 58.04583°N 7.49556°E / 58.04583; 7.49556
Country	Norway
County	Vest-Agder
District	Sørlandet
Administrative centre	Mandal
Government
• Mayor (2015)	Alf Erik Andersen (Frp)
Area
• Total	222.56 km2 (85.93 sq mi)
• Land	210.61 km2 (81.32 sq mi)
• Water	11.95 km2 (4.61 sq mi)
Area rank	321 in Norway
Population (2016)
• Total	15,529
• Rank	76 in Norway
• Density	73.7/km2 (191/sq mi)
• Change (10 years)	10.4 %
Demonym(s)	Mandalitt
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
ISO 3166 code	NO-1002
Official language form	Bokmål
Website	www.mandal.kommune.no
Data from Statistics Norway

 Mandal  is a municipality in Vest-Agder county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Sørlandet. Mandal is the southernmost municipality in all of Norway, with the tiny skerry of Pysen being the southernmost point of land in Norway.

The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Mandal. The town of Mandal is the second largest town by population in Vest-Agder county after the nearby town of Kristiansand and it is also the fourth largest city in all of the Sørlandet/Agder region. Besides the town of Mandal, the municipality also includes the villages of Bykjernen, Skjebstad, Sånum-Lundevik, Skogsfjord-Hesland, Krossen, Harkmark, Skinsnes-Ime, and Tregde-Skjernøy.

The river Mandalselva is a salmon river that flows through the municipality with its river mouth just outside the town. Mandal has many small, white-painted wooden houses, which is typical of towns at the South Coast of Norway (Sørlandet). The European route E39 highway connecting Kristiansand and Stavanger is the main road through Mandal. There are connecting airplane flights and ferries to Europe from Kristiansand.