Nord-Trøndelag

The name Nord-Trøndelag was created in 1919. It means '(the) northern (part of) Trøndelag'.

Until 1919 the name of the county was Nordre Trondhjems amt. The meaning of this was '(the) northern (part of) Trondhjems amt. (The old Trondhjems amt, created in 1662, was divided in 1804. Trondhjem is the old form of Trondheim.)

See also Sør-Trøndelag

Nord-Trøndelag borders Nordland to the north, Sør-Trøndelag to the south, Sweden to the east and the Norwegian Sea to the west. The county seat is Steinkjer, with 20,527 inhabitants (2005). The largest lake is Snåsavatnet and the largest river is Namsen, one of the best salmon rivers in Europe. Other well known salmon rivers are as Verdalselva and Stjørdalselva. Stjørdal is the fastest growing municipality in the county.

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 in the Namdalen lowland, this forms the most northern grain cultivation area in Norway today.

Skarnsund Bridge crossing the narrowest strait in Trondheimsfjord

There are fairly large areas of spruce forest inland, and mountains near the border with Sweden, and coastal mountains with bare rock at the northern coast. The spruce forests occurs even at the coast, where some areas belong to the Scandinavian coastal conifer forests, a rare European temperate rainforest. There are several national parks in the county, among them Blåfjella-Skjækerfjella National Park, Børgefjell National Park, Lierne National Park and Skarvan og Roltdalen National Park.
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