page_title: Åseral
section_title: General information
hierarchical_section_title: Åseral / General information
caption_attribution_description: English: Åseral church in Åseral, Norway Norsk bokmål: Åseral kirke i Kyrkjebygda i Åseral
context_page_description: Åseral is a municipality in Agder county, Norway. It is in the traditional district of Sørlandet. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Kyrkjebygda. Other villages in Åseral include Eikerapen, Kylland, Ljosland, and Åknes.
  Åseral is an inland municipality, bordering the county of Aust-Agder to the east and north. In the south, it borders the municipality of Audnedal, in the southeast with Hægebostad, and in the west with Kvinesdal. Åseral is the headwaters of the river Mandalselva and the Mandalen valley.
  The 888-square-kilometre municipality is the 127th largest by area out of the 422 municipalities in Norway. Åseral is the 402nd most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 937. The municipality's population density is 1.2 inhabitants per square kilometre and its population has increased by 4.9% over the last decade.
context_section_description: For centuries, the large parish of Bjelland encompassed the northern half of the Mandalen valley. The northern annex of the parish was Aaserald which was in the neighboring county of Nedenes while the main part of the parish was in Lister og Mandal county. When the formannskapsdistrikt law went into effect on 1 January 1838, each parish was created as a municipality, however, since Bjelland covered areas in two counties, it had to be split into two municipalities. The northern annex became the municipality of Aaserald (later spelled Åseral) in Nedenes county and the rest became the municipality of Bjelland og Grindum in Lister og Mandal county. On 1 September 1880, the municipality of Åseral was transferred from Nedenes county to Lister og Mandal county. Its municipal boundaries have never changed.
caption: View of Åseral Church
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