Grong Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Trøndelag
- District
- Namdalen
- Established
- 1 Jan 1838
- Created as
- Formannskapsdistrikt
- Administrative centre
- Medjå
- Mayor 2023
- Ann Jeanett Klinkenberg ( Ap )
- Total
- 1,136.16 km (438.67 sq mi)
- Land
- 1,095.32 km (422.91 sq mi)
- Water
- 40.84 km (15.77 sq mi) 3.6%
- Rank
- # 97 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 1,158.86 m (3,802.0 ft)
- Density
- 2/km (5.2/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- −5.2%
- Demonym
- Grongning
- Norwegian form
- Neutral
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
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Encyclopedic overview
Grong (Southern Sami: Kråangke) is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Namdalen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Medjå (sometimes called Grong also). Other villages in the municipality include Bergsmoen, Formofoss, Gartland, and Harran.
The 1,136-square-kilometre (439 sq mi) municipality is the 97th largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Grong Municipality is the 264th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 2,322. The municipality's population density is 2 inhabitants per square kilometre (5.2/sq mi) and its population has decreased by 5.2% over the previous 10-year period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Grong Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.