Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Trøndelag
- Established
- 1 Jan 1838
- Created as
- Formannskapsdistrikt
- Administrative centre
- Alstad
- Mayor 2019
- Frode Revhaug ( H )
- Total
- 76.32 km (29.47 sq mi)
- Land
- 74.28 km (28.68 sq mi)
- Water
- 2.04 km (0.79 sq mi) 2.7%
- Rank
- # 338 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 368.08 m (1,207.6 ft)
- Density
- 34.7/km (90/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- −0.3%
- Demonym
- Frosting
- Norwegian form
- Neutral
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Iso 3166 code
- NO-5036
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Frosta kommune
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Wikidata facts
- Demonym
- frosting
- Population
- 2667
- Area
- 0.21
- Official website
- www.frosta.kommune.no
- Image
- Frosta sett fra Hellan.jpg
- Households
- 20
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- Frosta
- inception
- 1838-00-00
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Frosta is the smallest municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The administrative centre is the village of Alstad (also known as Frosta). Other villages in Frosta include Logtun, Nordfjæra, Småland, Sørgrenda, and Tautra. The municipality is located along the Trondheimsfjord, on the Frosta peninsula, northeast of the city of Trondheim. It also includes the island of Tautra which is connected to the mainland by a 2.5-kilometre (1.6 mi) causeway bridge.
The 76-square-kilometre (29 sq mi) municipality is the 338th largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Frosta Municipality is the 247th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 2,645. The municipality's population density is 34.7 inhabitants per square kilometre (90/sq mi) and its population has decreased by 0.3% over the previous 10-year period.