Hovin is a village in the municipality of Melhus

Melhus

Melhus is a village and municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Gauldalen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Melhus...

 in Sør-Trøndelag

Sør-Trøndelag

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 county, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. It is located along the Gaula River between the villages of Støren

Støren

is a former municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The municipality is located in the north-central part of the present-day municipality of Midtre Gauldal. The municipal center of Støren was the village of Støren, where Støren Church is located....

 and Lundamo

Lundamo

Lundamo is a village in the municipality of Melhus in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located along the Gaula River between the villages of Hovin and Ler. The village has a population of 1,125. The population density of Lundamo is ....

. The 0.74 square kilometres (182.9 acre) village has a population (2009) of 640. The population density

Population density

Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. It is frequently applied to living organisms, and particularly to humans...

 of Hovin is 865 PD/km2.

Hovin Station

Hovin Station

Hovin Station is a railway station in the village of Hovin in the municipality of Melhus in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The station is on the Dovrebanen railway line, about south of Trondheim Central Station and about from Oslo Central Station at an elevation of above sea level. Hovin...

 is located in the village along the Dovrebanen

Dovrebanen

The Dovre Line is the main line of the Norwegian railway system between Oslo and Trondheim. The 64 km section south of Eidsvoll has been replaced by the Gardermo Line, the only high-speed line in the country. The line between Eidsvoll and Dombås is from old times the Eidsvoll–Dombås Line. The line...

 railway line, but only used for local traffic. The European route E6

European route E6

European route E 6 is the designation for the main north-south road in Norway, and the west coast of Sweden, running from the southern tip of Sweden, at Trelleborg, into Norway and through almost all of the country north to Finnmark. The route ends close to the Norwegian border with Russia...

 highway also runs through the village. Hovin has several distinct terraces in the hillsides, which is remnants of old shorelines following the end of the ice age.