Muruvika is a village in

Malvik Municipality Malvik is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Trøndelag Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Trondheim Region. The administrative center of the municipality is the village of Hommelvik. Other villages in Malvik i ...

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county,

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. The village is located near the end of the Stjørdalsfjorden, an arm of the

Trondheimsfjord The Trondheim Fjord or Trondheimsfjorden (), an inlet of the Norwegian Sea, is Norway's List of Norwegian fjords, third-longest fjord at long. It is located in the west-central part of the country in Trøndelag county, and it stretches from Ørl ...

. The village sits about north of the village of Hommelvik, the municipal centre. The

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highway used to pass through the village, but the highway now goes through the Hell Tunnel just south of Muruvika. The

Meråker Line The Meråker Line ( �meːroːkərˌbɑːnən is a railway line which runs through the district and valley of Stjørdalen in Trøndelag county, Norway. The line branches off from the Nordland Line at Hell Station and runs eastwards to the No ...

railway also passes through the village. The village has a population (2025) of 456 and a

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of .

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{{Authority control Villages in Trøndelag Malvik