Jump to content

Coonties o Norawa

Frae Wikipedia, the free beuk o knawledge

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

[eedit | eedit soorce]

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

[eedit | eedit soorce]

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 Airms 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

Freemit airtins

[eedit | eedit soorce]