Nord-Trøndelag

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Nord-Trøndelag fylke

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County

NO-17

Region

Trøndelag

Administrative centre

Steinkjer

County mayor

Inger Lise Gjørv

Area
- Total
- Percentage

Ranked 6
22,412 km²
6.83 %

Population
- Total (2005)
- Percentage
- Change (10 years)
- Density

Ranked 16
128,444
2.80 %
0.2 %
6/km²

Gross Regional Product
- Total (2001)
- Percentage
- GRP/capita

Ranked 17
24,810 million NOK
1.63 %
194,803 NOK

Nord-Trøndelag is a county in the central Norwegian region called Trøndelag.It borders Nordland to the north and Sør-Trøndelag to the south. The county seat is Steinkjer, a city with 20,527 inhabitants (2005). The largest lake is Snåsavatnet, just northeast of Steinkjer.

A large part of the population lives near the large Trondheimsfjord, which is a central feature of the southern part of this county. Considerable areas on the eastern shore of the fjord (mainly in Stjørdal, Frosta, Levanger, Inderøy, Verdal and Steinkjer) are fertile agricultural lowland, with grain fields and vegetables. Together with the grain fields further north, in the Namdalen lowland, this forms the most northern grain cultivation area in Norway. There are fairly large areas of spruce forest inland.

People have lived in this region for thousands of years (see Rock carvings in Central Norway).

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