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The municipality is governed by a municipal council of directly elected representatives. The mayor is indirectly elected by a vote of the municipal council. [1] Law enforcement and church services are provided at a national level in Norway. Municipalities are undergoing continuous change by dividing, consolidating, and adjusting boundaries.
This is a list of municipality numbers used in Norway. The numbers originate from 1946, when four-digit codes were assigned to each municipality. [1] This also applied to municipalities which had ceased to exist at the time. Urban municipalities got municipality numbers in which the third digit was a zero. [1]
In 1946, Norwegian municipalities were each assigned a municipality number, a four-digit codes based on ISO 3166-2:NO. Towns/cities got a municipality number in which the third digit was a zero and rural municipalities were given other numbers.
Norway is divided into 15 administrative regions, called counties (fylker, singular - fylke, Nynorsk: singular and plural fylke; until 1918 known as singular and plural- amt), and 431 municipalities (kommuner - Nynorsk: kommunar). There is also a list of municipalities by county. There is a separate category for Cities and towns in Norway
The six cities are Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim, Stavanger, Kristiansand and Tromsø. According to Storbymeldingen, these regions contained the following number of municipalities and inhabitants as of 1 July 2009 (the right-hand column shows the number of inhabitants in the main city, within the boundaries of its municipality): [1]
This is a list of urban areas in Norway by population, with population numbers as of 1 January 2024.. Statistics Norway, the governmental organisation with the task of measuring the Norwegian population, uses the term tettsted (literally "dense place"; meaning urban settlement or urban area), which is defined as a continuous built-up area with a maximum distance of 50 metres (160 ft) between ...
The capital city of 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]
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