Grane Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Nordland
- District
- Helgeland
- Established
- 1 July 1927
- Preceded by
- Vefsn Municipality
- Administrative centre
- Trofors
- Mayor 2023
- Raymond Fagerli ( Sp )
- Total
- 2,004.11 km (773.79 sq mi)
- Land
- 1,881.43 km (726.42 sq mi)
- Water
- 122.68 km (47.37 sq mi) 6.1%
- Rank
- # 37 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 1,696.46 m (5,565.8 ft)
- Density
- 0.7/km (1.8/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- −1.2%
- Demonym
- Graneværing
- Norwegian form
- Neutral
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Grane kommune
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Wikidata facts
- Demonym
- graneværing
- Population
- 1415
- Area
- 0.36
- Official website
- www.grane.kommune.no
- Image
- Trofors jernbanestasjon.jpg
- Households
- 6
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- Grane, Nordland
- inception
- 1927-01-01
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Article
Grane is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the Helgeland traditional region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Trofors. There are several other villages in the municipality including Fallmoen, Grane, Leiren, Majavatn, and Strendene. The European route E6 highway and the Nordland Line railway both run through the municipality from south to north.
The 2,004-square-kilometre (774 sq mi) municipality is the 37th largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Grane Municipality is the 304th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 1,447. The municipality's population density is 0.7 inhabitants per square kilometre (1.8/sq mi) and its population has decreased by 1.2% over the previous 10-year period.