Talk:Administrative divisions of Norway

Merger proposal
This article should be merged with Counties of Norway - there's a huge overlap. Bazonka (talk) 21:00, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Counties are one of two administrative divisions of Norway. The Town status could also be explained here. This is not a good article now and I guess you could find most of the info. by searching elsewhere, but it is a basis for expantion. I oppose a merger on the grounds that counties are not the only administrative division of Norway.Inge (talk) 21:04, 6 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Oppose per Inge. There are three administrative divisions of Norway, and this article should explain all of them within a context. In addition, there should be specific articles for counties, municipalities and boroughs. Arsenikk (talk)  21:27, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I have removed the proposal. It has been up for a week and the proposer has not commented on the arguments aginst a merger and there has been no arguments for a merger. The article has also evolved since the proposal.Inge (talk) 13:59, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

Dependencies official designation
I could not find what the official designation of Bouvet, Peter I, Queen Maud Land is. On Wikipedia these are termed "posessions" and "dependencies". It seems that they are different from the "integral overseas territories" (Svalbard, Jan Mayen) that are fully integrated into Norway-proper (as a somewhat different type of county/municipality). But I can't find what the official term for the dependencies is. Alinor (talk) 07:42, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

Multiple articles
In the current Administrative divisions of Norway article the "regular" first and second level divisions are the Counties of Norway and Municipalities of Norway. In addition there are the integral overseas territories of Norway, where Svalbard is similar to a county (that has the Longyearbyen municipality-like authority) and Jan Mayen is also similar to a county (as it is separate from all other counties), but is governed by Nordland governor (thus similar to municipality?). Additional question - what is the structure of Administrative divisions of Svalbard (at least 1 municipality-like division if Longyearbyen 'municipality' covers the whole of Svalbard - or 2 such divisions if there are Longyearbyen and 'rest of Svalbard municiaplity') and Administrative divisions of Jan Mayen (I assume none).

What is missing are the Bouvet, Peter I, Queen Maud Land. They are not "integral", not counties, not municipalities. Those three are covered in Dependencies of Norway and List of possessions of Norway.

I propose that we designate Dependencies of Norway for the current dependencies (and rename it to the proper official term for these territories - see previous discussion section) and designate List of possessions of Norway for historical (and maybe rename it to List of historical possessions of Norway) - as currently they seem to overlap. Alinor (talk) 07:42, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

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Municipality and Region reforms
Like in some other Nordic countries, Norway decided on a reform to reduce the number of municipalities (from 428 to 354) and regions (from 19 to 11). The regions will change at the start of 2020, I am not sure if the municipalities changed already now in 2019? 83.241.225.99 (talk) 08:19, 25 January 2019 (UTC)