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Counties of Norway Norges fylker(Bokmål) Noregs fylke(Nynorsk)
Category
Unitary unit
Location
Norway
Number
15 counties (as of 2024-01-01)
Areas
Smallest (including water): Oslo, 454.12 km2 (175.34 sq mi) Largest (including water): Innlandet, 52,072.44 km2 (20,105.28 sq mi)
Government
County municipality
Subdivisions
Municipalities
Politics of Norway
Constitution
Monarchy
King Harald V
Crown Prince Haakon
Government
Council of State (current cabinet)
Prime Minister (list)
Jonas Gahr Støre
List of governments
Parliament
Storting
President: Masud Gharahkhani
Norwegian Parliamentary Ombudsman
Political parties
Politicians
Recent elections
Parliamentary: 2021
2017
2013
2009
Local: 2023
2019
2015
2011
Local government
Administrative divisions
Counties (Fylker)
Municipalities (Kommuner)
Sámi Parliament
Foreign relations
European Union relations
Membership of International organizations
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Norway is divided into 15 administrative regions, called counties (singular Norwegian: fylke, plural Bokmål: fylker; Nynorsk: fylke from Old Norse: fylki from the word "folk", Northern Sami: fylka, Southern Sami: fylhke, Lule Sami: fylkka, Kven: fylkki) which until 1918 were known as amter. The counties form the first-level administrative divisions of Norway and are further subdivided into 356 municipalities (kommune, pl. kommuner / kommunar). The island territories of Svalbard and Jan Mayen are outside the county division and ruled directly at the national level. The capital Oslo is both a county and a municipality.
In 2017, the Solberg government decided to abolish some of the counties and to merge them with other counties to form larger ones, reducing the number of counties from 19 to 11, which was implemented on 1 January 2020.[1] This sparked popular opposition, with some calling for the reform to be reversed. The Storting voted to partly undo the reform on 14 June 2022, with Norway to have 15 counties from 1 January 2024.[2] Three of the newly merged counties, namely Vestfold og Telemark, Viken[3][4] and Troms og Finnmark,[5] were dissolved and the old counties existing before the reform re-established with a few minor changes as some municipalities merged across former county borders and some switched counties during the 2020 local government reform (Kommunereformen i Norge [no]).
^"Dette er Norges nye regioner". vg.no. 21 February 2017. Archived from the original on 9 March 2018. Retrieved 28 April 2018.
^"Fylkesinndelingen fra 2024". 5 July 2022.
^Lilleås, Heidi Schei (October 2019). "Monica Mæland om Viken-dramaet: Vil ikke spekulere". Nettavisen.
^Lars Roede, "Viken og Innlandet: Amatørmessige logoer og uhistoriske navn", Aftenposten, 11 January 2020
^Grønning, Trygve (2021-03-17). "Fylkesrådslederen om sammenslåingen: – Staten har påført oss dype sår". NRK (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 2021-03-29.
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