Concept variable

Municipality name

  Norwegian (bokmål) Norwegian (nynorsk)
Name Municipality name
Definition Municipality name is a name that identifies a municipality. Some municipalities have the same name, but are not located in the same county. County affiliation is marked in brackets for municipality name duplicates. Certain municipalities have multilingual names such as Nordreisa - Ráisa - Raisi. These parallel names are separated by spaces, hyphens, and spaces. The Sami name stands first for the municipalities that are included in the administrative area for the Sami language, except for Porsanger municipality.
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Owner 320 - Division for population statistics
 
Statistical unit Region
Subject region -
 
Classification Classification of municipalities