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Vera is a village in
Verdal Municipality Verdal is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Trøndelag Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Innherad Districts of Norway, region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the List of towns and cities in ...
in
Trøndelag Trøndelag (; or is a county and coextensive with the Trøndelag region (also known as ''Midt-Norge'' or ''Midt-Noreg,'' "Mid-Norway") in the central part of Norway. It was created in 1687, then named Trondhjem County (); in 1804 the county was ...
county,
Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...
. It is located on the northern shore of the lake
Veresvatnet Veresvatnet or Veressjøen is a lake in Verdal Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The lake lies in the eastern part of the municipality, just west of the border with Sweden and just south of Blåfjella–Skjækerfjella National Park. The ...
, about west of the border with
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, about south of the edge of Blåfjella–Skjækerfjella National Park, and about east of the village of
Vuku Vuku is a village in Verdal Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Helgåa and Inna where they become the Verdalselva river. The village is located about west of the village of Vera and about ...
. The main part of the village lies on the north shore of the little lake, but the settlement stretches along the whole north and eastern shores of the lake. Vera is also a
Church of Norway The Church of Norway (, , , ) is an Lutheranism, evangelical Lutheran denomination of Protestant Christianity and by far the largest Christian church in Norway. Christianity became the state religion of Norway around 1020, and was established a ...
parish covering the eastern part of Verdal Municipality, with Vera Chapel located in this village.


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Verdal Villages in Trøndelag {{Trøndelag-geo-stub