Grong

Grong kommune
Municipality
Grong in early August 2007
Coat of arms Nord-Trøndelag within Norway
Grong within Nord-Trøndelag
Coordinates: 64°31′53″N 12°37′12″E / 64.53139°N 12.62000°E / 64.53139; 12.62000Coordinates: 64°31′53″N 12°37′12″E / 64.53139°N 12.62000°E / 64.53139; 12.62000
Country	Norway
County	Nord-Trøndelag
District	Namdalen
Administrative centre	Mediå
Government
• Mayor (2003)	Erik Seem (Sp)
Area
• Total	1,136.17 km2 (438.68 sq mi)
• Land	1,097.65 km2 (423.81 sq mi)
• Water	38.52 km2 (14.87 sq mi)
Area rank	87 in Norway
Population (2011)
• Total	2,357
• Rank	301 in Norway
• Density	2.1/km2 (5/sq mi)
• Change (10 years)	-8.4 %
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
ISO 3166 code	NO-1742
Official language form	Neutral
Website	www.grong.kommune.no
Data from Statistics Norway

 Grong  (Southern Sami: Kråangke) is a municipality in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Namdalen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Medjå. Other villages in the municipality include Bergsmoen, Formofoss, Gartland, and Harran.

Grong was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). On 1 January 1901, the northwestern district of Høylandet (population: 1,046) was separated from Grong to form its own municipality. On 1 January 1923, the northeastern district of Røyrvik (population: 392), the northwestern district of Namsskogan (population: 469), and the central district of Harran (population: 630) were all split from Grong to form separate municipalities. This left a vastly smaller municipality of Grong with only 1,272 residents. On 1 January 1964, the municipality of Harran (population: 1,085) was merged back into Grong.

The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Grong farm (Old Norse: Granungar), since the first church was built there. The first element is grǫn which means "spruce" and the last element is the plural form of the suffix -ungr.