page_title: Hindelbank
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Hindelbank / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: Hindelbank, canton of Bern, SwitzerlandEsperanto: Hindelbank, Kantono Berno, SvislandoDeutsch: Hindelbank, Kanton Bern, Schweiz
context_page_description: Hindelbank is a municipality in the administrative district of Emmental in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
context_section_description: Hindelbank has an area of 6.75 km² (2.61 sq mi).  Of this area, 4.09 km² (1.58 sq mi) or 60.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while 1.49 km² (0.58 sq mi) or 22.1% is forested.   Of the rest of the land, 1.1 km² (0.42 sq mi) or 16.3% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.03 km² (7.4 acres) or 0.4% is either rivers or lakes and 0.01 km² (2.5 acres) or 0.1% is unproductive land.
  Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 1.3% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 5.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 7.4%.  Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests.  Of the agricultural land, 51.4% is used for growing crops and  8.9% is pastures.  All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
  Hindelbank includes the Ribbon road village of Hindelbank and the women's prison in Wiler.
  On 31 December 2009 Amtsbezirk Burgdorf, the municipality's former district, was dissolved.  On the following day, 1 January 2010, it joined the newly created Verwaltungskreis Emmental.
caption: Entrance to the village
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