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Orkanger

Orkanger is a city and a former municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located in the present-day municipality of Orkdal at the end of the Orkdalsfjorden, and arm of the Trondheimsfjord. Orkanger is the administrative and commercial centre of the municipality of Orkdal. Orkanger Church is located here.

Combined with Fannrem, the conurbation constitutes the second largest urban area in Sør-Trøndelag county after the city of Trondheim, the county capital. The area has a population (2013) of 7,812.

Just north of Orkanger lies the port of Thamshavn. Until 1974, Orkanger had a station on the Thamshavn Line railway with the Thamshavn Station just north of the city. Between 1908 and 1949 there was a steam ship service to Trondheim on the SS Orkla.