Coonties o Norawa

Norawa is dividit intae 19 admeenistrative regions, cried coonties (singular Norse: fylke, plural Norse: fylker (Bokmål) / fylke (Nynorsk); till 1918 kent as amt, pl. amter / amt). The coonties form the primary first-level subdiveesions o Norawa an are further dividit intae 430 municipalities (kommune, pl. kommuner / kommunar). The caipital Oslo is considered as baith a coonty an a municipality.

Politics

Thare is some poleetical disagreement on whether coonties are a practical, economical or even necessar level o admeenistration. (See Politics o Norway fur mair information.)

Leet o coonties

Below is a leet o the Norse coonties as thay hae been syne 1919, wi thair current admeenistrative centres. Note that the coonties are admeenistered baith bi appointees o the naitional govrenment an tae a lesser extent bi thair awn electit bodies. The coonty nummers are frae the offeecial numbering seestem ISO 3166-2:NO, which follaes the coastline frae the Swadish mairch in the sootheast tae the Roushie mairch in the northeast. The number 13 wis dropped frae the seestem when the ceety o Bergen (coonty no. 13) wis mergit intae Hordaland (coonty no. 12) in 1972.

ISO-code	Coonty (Fylke)	Admeenistrative centre
01	Østfold	Sarpsborg
02	Akershus	Oslo
03	Oslo	Ceety o Oslo
04	Hedmark	Hamar
05	Oppland	Lillehammer
06	Buskerud	Drammen
07	Vestfold	Tønsberg
08	Telemark	Skien
09	Aust-Agder	Arendal
10	Vest-Agder	Kristiansand
11	Rogaland	Stavanger
12	Hordaland	Bergen
14	Sogn og Fjordane	Leikanger
15	Møre og Romsdal	Molde
16	Sør-Trøndelag	Trondheim
17	Nord-Trøndelag	Steinkjer
18	Nordland	Bodø
19	Troms	Tromsø
20	Finnmark	Vadsø

Map

Freemit airtins

Regionalization and devolution: Proposed new regions of Norway Archived 2006-02-13 at the Wayback Machine (PowerPoint slide show) (in Inglis)