There are several other villages in the municipality including Fallmoen, Grane, Leiren, Majavatn, and Strendene.

The European route E6 highway and the Nordland Line railway both run through the municipality from south to north.

It is seemingly a simple and plain name, but many questions arise regarding both valid meanings for the word and the spoken forms it takes.

Outside the northern regions, the farm name is found only in Askvoll Municipality in Western Norway.

Rather it would have had to have been so well entrenched in its ancient speech form that it held over from the times of pestilence and Black Death when settlers were reduced to meager numbers.

This is an unlikely explanation for a name with local origins in the Middle Ages and makes little sense.

They were not present before the 13th to 14th centuries and it took several hundred years after that for spruce forest to proliferate in the Ner-Vefsn and Majavatnet settlements.

[10][11] Another theory is that the name derives from the Southern Sámi word kråane, which means 'corner' or 'crook',[12] referring to the bending and curving of the Vefsna river in the area.

This is also the point where the river flowing westward from Hattfjelldal changes direction and turns north towards the Vefsnfjord.

The official blazon is "Argent, a salmon haurient azure" (Norwegian: På sølv bunn en springende blå laks).

This was chosen as a symbol of the rich salmon rivers Vefsna and Svenningelva that run through the municipality.

The municipal council (Kommunestyre) of Grane is made up of 17 representatives that are elected to four year terms.

The tables below show the current and historical composition of the council by political party.