Overhalla Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Trøndelag
- District
- Namdalen
- Established
- 1 Jan 1838
- Created as
- Formannskapsdistrikt
- Administrative centre
- Ranemsletta
- Mayor 2021
- Hege Kristin Kværnø Saugen ( Sp )
- Total
- 730.05 km (281.87 sq mi)
- Land
- 689.34 km (266.16 sq mi)
- Water
- 40.71 km (15.72 sq mi) 5.6%
- Rank
- # 155 in Norway
- Highest elevation
- 726.51 m (2,383.6 ft)
- Density
- 5.4/km (14/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- +5.1%
- Demonym
- Overhallning
- Norwegian form
- Neutral
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
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Encyclopedic overview
Overhalla is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Namdalen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Ranemsletta (also called Overhalla). Other villages include Melen, Hunn, Skogmo, Svalia, and Øysletta.
The population is concentrated in the relatively broad Namsen river valley at the center. Public services, agriculture, and tourism are the main sources of income. Overhallahus (a house building company) and Pharmaq (a fish vaccine factory) are both located in the municipality.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Overhalla Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.