page_title: Steinkjer
section_title: General information
hierarchical_section_title: Steinkjer / General information
caption_attribution_description: Steinkjer rådhus (town hall) Norway
context_page_description: Steinkjer is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Innherad region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Steinkjer which is located on the inner part of the Trondheimsfjord. The town is also the administrative centre for Trøndelag county. Other populated areas in Steinkjer include the villages of Ogndal, Hyllbrua, Gaulstad, Beitstad, Bartnes, Vellamelen, Stod, Binde, Sunnan, Byafossen, Følling, Kvam, Lerkehaug, Mære, Sparbu, Vassaunet, Vekre, Malm, Follafoss, Sela, and Verrastranda.
  The 2,122-square-kilometre municipality is the 31st largest by area out of the 356 municipalities in Norway. Steinkjer is the 49th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 24,357. The municipality's population density is 12.6 inhabitants per square kilometre and its population has increased by 2.4% over the previous 10-year period.
context_section_description: The village of Steinkjer in the municipality of Stod was declared a kjøpstad (town) in 1857, and then on 23 January 1858 it was separated from Stod to form a municipality of its own.  The initial population of Steinkjer was 1,150.
  Over time, as the town grew, land was annexed from the neighboring municipalities. It started on 1 January 1902 when an unpopulated area from the neighboring Ogndal municipality was taken for future growth of Steinkjer.  Then in 1941, an area (population: 57) was taken from Ogndal to be added to Steinkjer.  Again, in 1948, an area (population: 78) was transferred from Ogndal and another area (population: 70) was transferred from Egge municipality.
  During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee.  On 1 January 1964, a large merger took place: the neighboring municipalities of Beitstad (population: 2,563), Egge (population: 3,476), Kvam (population: 1,245), Ogndal (population: 2,678), Sparbu (population: 4,027), and Stod (population: 1,268) were all merged with the town of Steinkjer (population: 4,325) to form the new municipality of Steinkjer.
  On 1 January 2018, the municipality switched from the old Nord-Trøndelag county to the new Trøndelag county.
  On 1 January 2020, the municipality of Steinkjer and the neighboring municipality of Verran merged to form a new, larger municipality of Steinkjer.
caption: Steinkjer town hall
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