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The counties in Finland established in 1634 were: Turku and Pori County, Nyland and Tavastehus County, Viborg and Nyslott County, Ostrobothnia County and Kexholm County. Over time the number of subdivisions in Finland increased to twelve, until a reorganization in 1997 reduced their number to six provinces , while keeping the administrative ...
Several were administrative subdivisions until 1634, when they were replaced by the counties of Sweden (län). Some were conquered later on from Denmark–Norway. Others, like the provinces of Finland, have been lost. In some cases, the county and province borders correspond almost exactly, as with Blekinge and Blekinge County.
In Swedish local governance, a Region (Swedish: region), or in English, County Council, and County Council Area, [1] (previously designated landsting, roughly ”local assembly”), is a self-governing local authority and geographical entity of Sweden.
towns (in counties), neighborhoods (in cities), villages (rural) [citation needed] North Macedonia: Unitary 8 statistical regions: 80 municipalities (opštini) Norway: Regional 14 counties (fylker) 354 primary municipalities (kommuner) 3 hundreds (herader) 14 county municipalities (fylkeskommuner) 1 combined municipality and county: Oslo: 15 ...
Rank County Population Area (km²) Density 1 Stockholm: 1,803,377 6,488 278.0 2 Skåne: 1,156,070 11,027 104.8 3 Västra Götaland: 1,488,709 23,945
Modern Sweden is divided into counties and municipalities. There are also three metropolitan areas of Sweden which exist in parallel to the main subdivisions and are used for planning and statistical purposes. The metropolitan areas of Sweden should not be confused with the urban areas in Sweden, based on the concept of tätort.
العربية; Asturianu; Беларуская; Беларуская (тарашкевіца) Български; Bosanski; Brezhoneg; Català; Čeština; Cymraeg
This is a list of municipalities of Sweden after the division at the turn of the year of 2011–12. There are 290 municipalities. There are 290 municipalities. All statistics are from 1 January 2013, except for population (30 September 2013) and density (1 January 2013 and 30 September 2013).