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Municipalities in Norway are the basic unit of local government. Norway is divided into 15 administrative regions, called counties. These counties are subdivided into 357 municipalities (as of 2024). The capital city Oslo is both a county and a municipality. Map of municipalities (2020)
This is a list of towns and cities in Norway. The Norwegian language word by means a town or city –there is no distinction between the two words as there is in English. Historically, the designation of town/city was granted by the king, but since 1996 that authority was given to the local municipal councils for each municipality in Norway.
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]
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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
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 main responsibility of the county municipalities are upper secondary schools, dental care, public transport, county roads, culture, cultural heritage management, land use planning and business development. [1] Each county council main body is the county council (fylkesting), elected by direct election by all legal residents every fourth ...
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