Vuku is a village in the municipality of

Verdal Verdal is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Innherad region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Verdalsøra. Some villages in the municipality include Forbregd/Lein, Lysthaugen, Stiklest ...

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county,

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. It is located at the

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of the rivers

Helgåa Helgåa is a river in the municipality of Verdal in Trøndelag county, Norway. The river begins at the lake Veresvatnet and runs through the valley Helgådalen for about to Holmen in the village of Vuku, where it merges with the river Inna to cr ...

and

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where they become the

Verdalselva Verdalselva ( en, Verdal River) is a long river in the municipality of Verdal in Trøndelag county, Norway. The river begins at Holmen in the village of Vuku at the confluence of the rivers Inna (Verdal), Inna and Helgåa. The river Inna drain ...

river. The village is about west of the village of Vera and about east of the town of

Verdalsøra Verdalsøra is a town in the municipality of Verdal in Trøndelag county, Norway. The town is the administrative center of the municipality. It is located along the Trondheimsfjord at the mouth of the river Verdalselva. The village of Vinne lies ...

. Vuku is also a parish covering the central part of Verdal municipality, with

Vuku Church Vuku Church ( no, Vuku kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Verdal municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located in the village of Vuku. It is one of the churches for the ''Vera og Vuku'' parish which is part of the St ...

located in this village. The village has a population (2018) of 226 and a

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of . In the late 1800s, a group of parish members immigrated to the United States, where they established a sister church in what is now Foxhome, Minnesota. In 2015, the members of the Minnesotan Vukku Lutheran Churc
celebrated 125 years of history
Former

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footballer John Olav Hjelde grew up in Vuku and played for Vuku until he was signed by Rosenborg, then the biggest club in Norway.Later he got signed by

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References

Verdal Villages in Trøndelag {{Trøndelag-geo-stub