Grong

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Grong kommune
—  Municipality  —
Coat of arms Nord-Trøndelag within Norway
Grong within Nord-Trøndelag
Coordinates: 64°31′53″N 12°37′12″E / 64.53139, 12.62
Country	Norway
County	Nord-Trøndelag
District	Namdalen
Municipality ID	NO-1742
Administrative centre	Grong
Government
- Mayor (2003)	Erik Seem (Sp)
Area (Nr. 87 in Norway)
- Total	1,136 km² (438.6 sq mi)
- Land	1,098 km² (423.9 sq mi)
Population (2004)
- Total	2,530
- Density	2/km² (5.2/sq mi)
- Change (10 years)	-0.2 %
- Rank in Norway	301
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
- Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Official language form	Neutral
Data from Statistics Norway
Website: www.grong.kommune.no

Grong (help·info) is a municipality in the county of Nord-Trøndelag, Norway.

Grong was established as a municipality January 1, 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). Four other municipalities were later separated from it: Høylandet (1901), Harran (1923), Namsskogan (1923) and Røyrvik (1923). Harran was, however, again merged with Grong January 1, 1964.

[edit] Name

The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the farm Grong (Old Norse Granungar), since the first church was built there. The first element is grön f 'spruce', the last element is the plural form of the suffix -ungr.

[edit] Coat-of-arms

The coat-of-arms is from 1987. It shows three green triangles, meant to represent trees of spruce.

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