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Levanger Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Trøndelag
- District
- Innherred
- Established
- 1 Jan 1838
- Created as
- Formannskapsdistrikt
- Administrative centre
- Levanger
- Mayor 2019
- Anita Ravlo Sand ( Sp )
- Total
- 645.80 km (249.34 sq mi)
- Land
- 609.74 km (235.42 sq mi)
- Water
- 36.06 km (13.92 sq mi) 5.6%
- Rank
- # 174 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 735.35 m (2,412.6 ft)
- Density
- 31.9/km (83/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- +7.1%
- Demonym
- Levangsbygg
- Norwegian form
- Neutral
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Norway
- Demonym
- levangsbygg
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Nord-Trøndelag
- Capital
- Levanger
- Population
- 20807
- Area
- 0.73
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Inderøy Municipality
- Official website
- www.levanger.kommune.no
- Image
- Kirkegata i Levanger.jpg
- Households
- 500
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- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Levanger
- twinned administrative body
- Herceg Novi
- Commons category
- Levanger Municipality
- topic's main category
- Category:Levanger
- language used
- Nynorsk
- inception
- 1838-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Levanger (Norwegian) or Levangke (Southern Sami) is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the district of Innherred. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Levanger. Some of the notable villages in the municipality include Alstadhaug, Ekne, Hokstad, Markabygda, Momarka, Mule, Nesset, Okkenhaug, Ronglan, Skogn, and Åsen.
The town of Levanger lies at the mouth of the Levangselva river along the Trondheimsfjord. One of the main roads through the town is Kirkegata. The 5-square-kilometre (1.9 sq mi) town has a population (2024) of 10,813, meaning about half the municipal residents live in the town. The town has held "town status" as of 1997 and houses a campus of the Nord University as of 2016.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Levanger Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.