A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet comprising, by mass%: a base steel sheet including, as a chemical composition, C: 0.005% or less, Si: 2.50% to 4.00%, Mn: 0.010% to 0.500%, N: 0.010% or less, P: 0.0300% or less, Sol. Al: 0.005% or less, S: 0.010% or less, Bi: 0% to 0.020%, Sn: 0% to 0.500%, Cr: 0% to 0.500%, Cu: 0% to 1.000%, Se: 0% to 0.080%, Sb: 0% to 0.50%, and a remainder of Fe and impurities; a glass coating provided on a surface of the base steel sheet; and a tension-applying insulation coating provided on a surface of the glass coating, wherein linear thermal strains having a predetermined angle φ with respect to a transverse direction which is a direction orthogonal to a rolling direction are periodically formed on a surface of the tension-applying insulation coating at predetermined intervals along the rolling direction, wherein a product sheet thickness of the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet is 0.17 mm or more and 0.35 mm or less, wherein the glass coating is formed by a reaction between an annealing separating agent containing magnesia MgO applied to the surface of the base steel sheet and a component on the surface of the base steel sheet during final annealing, and has a composition primarily containing Mg 2 SiO 4, wherein the tension-applying insulation coating is formed by applying a coating solution containing metal phosphate and silica as main components to the surface of the glass coating and baking the resultant, when the surface of the tension-applying insulation coating having the linear thermal strains is measured by an X-ray diffraction spectrum using Co Kα radiation as a radiation source, for a full width at half maximum of a diffraction peak in a range of 2θ = 52.38 ± 0.50° corresponding to a plane strength of Fe, the full width at half maximum F1 on the linear thermal strain and the full width at half maximum F2 at an intermediate position between the two linear thermal strains adjacent to each other in units of ° satisfy the following Formula, when the linear thermal strains are observed with a scanning electron microscope for magnetic domain observation, a width of the linear thermal strain is 10 μm or more and 300 μm or less, and in the base steel sheet, an orientation distribution angle γ around a rolling direction axis of secondary recrystallization grains, an orientation distribution angle α around an axis parallel to a normal direction, and an orientation distribution angle β around an axis perpendicular to each of the RD axis and the ND axis in units of ° satisfy the following Formulas and, and wherein the chemical composition is measured as described in the description, 0.00 < F 1 − F 2 / F 2 ≤ 0.15 1.0 ≤ γ ≤ 8.0 0.0 ≤ α 2 + β 2 0.5 ≤ 10.0 a base steel sheet including, as a chemical composition, C: 0.005% or less, Si: 2.50% to 4.00%, Mn: 0.010% to 0.500%, N: 0.010% or less, P: 0.0300% or less, Sol. Al: 0.005% or less, S: 0.010% or less, Bi: 0% to 0.020%, Sn: 0% to 0.500%, Cr: 0% to 0.500%, Cu: 0% to 1.000%, Se: 0% to 0.080%, Sb: 0% to 0.50%, and a remainder of Fe and impurities; C: 0.005% or less, Si: 2.50% to 4.00%, Mn: 0.010% to 0.500%, N: 0.010% or less, P: 0.0300% or less, Sol. Al: 0.005% or less, S: 0.010% or less, Bi: 0% to 0.020%, Sn: 0% to 0.500%, Cr: 0% to 0.500%, Cu: 0% to 1.000%, Se: 0% to 0.080%, Sb: 0% to 0.50%, and a remainder of Fe and impurities; a glass coating provided on a surface of the base steel sheet; and a tension-applying insulation coating provided on a surface of the glass coating, wherein linear thermal strains having a predetermined angle φ with respect to a transverse direction which is a direction orthogonal to a rolling direction are periodically formed on a surface of the tension-applying insulation coating at predetermined intervals along the rolling direction, wherein a product sheet thickness of the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet is 0.17 mm or more and 0.35 mm or less, wherein the glass coating is formed by a reaction between an annealing separating agent containing magnesia MgO applied to the surface of the base steel sheet and a component on the surface of the base steel sheet during final annealing, and has a composition primarily containing Mg 2 SiO 4, wherein the tension-applying insulation coating is formed by applying a coating solution containing metal phosphate and silica as main components to the surface of the glass coating and baking the resultant, when the surface of the tension-applying insulation coating having the linear thermal strains is measured by an X-ray diffraction spectrum using Co Kα radiation as a radiation source, for a full width at half maximum of a diffraction peak in a range of 2θ = 52.38 ± 0.50° corresponding to a plane strength of Fe, the full width at half maximum F1 on the linear thermal strain and the full width at half maximum F2 at an intermediate position between the two linear thermal strains adjacent to each other in units of ° satisfy the following Formula, when the linear thermal strains are observed with a scanning electron microscope for magnetic domain observation, a width of the linear thermal strain is 10 μm or more and 300 μm or less, and in the base steel sheet, an orientation distribution angle γ around a rolling direction axis of secondary recrystallization grains, an orientation distribution angle α around an axis parallel to a normal direction, and an orientation distribution angle β around an axis perpendicular to each of the RD axis and the ND axis in units of ° satisfy the following Formulas and, and wherein the chemical composition is measured as described in the description, 0.00 < F 1 − F 2 / F 2 ≤ 0.15 1.0 ≤ γ ≤ 8.0 0.0 ≤ α 2 + β 2 0.5 ≤ 10.0