Regional divisions
Updated: 4 November 2024
Next update: Not yet determined
| Count | |
|---|---|
| Oslo | 1 |
| Rogaland | 23 |
| Møre og Romsdal | 27 |
| Nordland - Nordlánnda | 41 |
| Østfold | 12 |
| Akershus | 21 |
| Buskerud | 18 |
| Innlandet | 46 |
| Vestfold | 6 |
| Telemark | 17 |
| Agder | 25 |
| Vestland | 43 |
| Trøndelag - Trööndelage | 38 |
| Troms - Romsa - Tromssa | 21 |
| Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku | 18 |
| Total | 357 |
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About the statistics
The statistics provide an overview of most used administrative divisions. Long timelines and preannouncing of coming regional divisions is given.
The information under «About the statistics» was last updated 30 October 2024.
County (geographic)
County (geographic) is a designation for a regional level in statistics. The counties are delimited by the national border, territorial border, demarcation line at sea and county border.
Municipality (geographic)
Municipality (geographic) is a designation for a regional level in statistics. The municipalities are delimited by the national border, territorial border, demarcation line at sea, county border and municipality border. In addition, the baseline and 1 nautical mile are included, which are legal demarcations off the coast.
Regional divisions
Division for population statistics.
Statistics are presented on national level, per county and per municipality
Statistics is published annually. Statistics are published as soon as regional divisions are decided. This is usually before 1st of July each year.
The statistics are reported to EU statistical office (Eurostat), the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the United Nations (UN)
Collected and revised data are stored securely by Statistics Norway in compliance with applicable legislation on data processing.
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The number and delineation of administrative divisions are fundamental in many parts of planning and analyzing societal features and phenomena. This has a long tradition going back to the earliest censuses, church books and tax registers. In Statistics Norway this has especially taken form as publications related to the historic censuses and in special editions of the publication series Norwegian Official Statistics (NOS).
Main users are public planners, researchers within the field of geography and history, programmers using geodata or data with a georeferencing component.
No external users have access to statistics before they are released at 8 a.m. on ssb.no after at least three months’ advance notice in the release calendar. This is one of the most important principles in Statistics Norway for ensuring the equal treatment of users.
Numerous statistics use corresponding regional division. Corresponding tables are found in the Statistical Classifications and Codelists (Klass).
The statistics are developed, produced and disseminated pursuant to Act no. 32 of 21 June 2019 relating to official statistics and Statistics Norway (the Statistics Act).
Not relevant.
The population is counties and municipalities in Norway.
Censuses, Norwegian Official Statistics series, Statistical yearbook and StatBank for tables. Paper maps, digital maps and algorithms using geographic information systems for geodata. Both tables and maps cover all of mainland Norway. No sampling is made.
Data are collected from Statistics Norways API for Classifications and code lists. Main data collection is GeoNorge for map data. Collection is done once a year. Calculation is done based upon number of unique regional code IDs.
Editing is defined here as checking, examining and amending data.
Historical data have been checked using Statistics Norway’s system for classifications and code lists API (KLASS), in retrospect. And historical data has been checked using multiple sources in advance of loading data to KLASS API.
Not relevant.
Not relevant.
The statistics is comparable over time and space. Accuracy of geographic delineations do however vary over time. Eldest delineations have lower geographic accuracy.
Full coverage.
Analyses, articles and publications
Article / 4 November 2024From parish to municipalityNow almost 200 years of municipal history will be told entirely digitally for the first time. This provides new opportunities for the dissemination of historical statistics. Well supported by Eurostat, Statistics Norway has now mapped the history of Norwegian municipalities through municipality numbers and names. The use of code lists for the exchange of information is today completely fundamental, and Statistics Norway has now made arrangements for machine reading of county and municipal lists from 1838 to the present day.