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Area of land and fresh water
Statistics of land area and fresh water area for counties, municipalities and basic statistical units. More detailed land cover and land use statistics is published under “Land use and land cover”, see link under “Related content”.Statistics of land area and fresh water area for counties, municipalities and basic statistical units. More detailed land cover and land use statistics is published under “Land use and land cover”, see link under “Related content”.
Selected figures from this statistics
- Land and fresh water. Square kilometresDownload table as ...Land and fresh water. Square kilometres1
2025 In all Land Fresh water The kingdom of Norway 384 483 364 250 20 232 The mainland 323 807 304 039 19 768 Svalbard 60 299 59 841 458 Jan Mayen 377 371 6 1Source: The Norwegian Mapping Authority (1:50 000) and The Norwegian Polar Institute (1: 100 000). Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ...
About the statistics
The information under «About the statistics» was last updated 6 October 2023.
Municipalities is an administrative division of Norway and represents the local self-governance. Municipalities is both a term for a political/administrative level, and a term for a regional level in the statistics.
The country is further divided into about 14 000 statistical units. The objective of dividing municipalities into statistical units is to make small, stable geographical units which may form a flexible basis to work with and present regional statistics. This in turn is aiming at a more efficient statistical basis for analysis on regional and municipal level, for management and for planning purposes.
In addition to being stable over a certain time period, statistical units should also be geographically coherent areas. Another main criteria is that statistical units should be homogeneous, with respect to nature and basis for economic activities, conditions for communications, and structure of buildings.
Area is given in square kilometres and for height intervals above sea level.
Land area, area of fresh water (lakes and rivers). The statistics might be divided into more classes.