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Can you locate all 18 regions of France?
Can you locate all 81 provinces of Turkey?
Can you locate all 50 provinces of Spain?
Can you place all 290 municipalities of Sweden?
Norway is a long country, and knowing you are in it says little about where: Kirkenes is farther from Oslo than Paris is. The county, or fylke, is the unit that fixes it. Each has an elected county council that runs upper secondary schools, county roads and public transport, and a governor appointed by the state. The map changed twice in five years, so most atlases and most memories are out of date: this page and the game follow the 15 counties in force since 2024.
In 2020 the 18 counties of the day were merged into 11. Three of the new ones were large mergers imposed from above: Viken (Østfold, Akershus and Buskerud), Vestfold og Telemark, and Troms og Finnmark. All three were undone with effect from 1 January 2024, which is why the map here has Østfold, Akershus, Buskerud, Vestfold, Telemark, Troms and Finnmark as separate counties again. The mergers that were kept are Innlandet (Hedmark and Oppland), Agder (the two Agders), Vestland (Hordaland and Sogn og Fjordane) and Trøndelag, which dates from 2018.
Oslo is both a county and a municipality, and is the one county that is a single shape on the map. Svalbard belongs to Norway but is not a county, and is not drawn here.
Above the counties sit the five landsdeler, which have no government and are older than all of them. Østlandet is the south east around the capital and holds more than half the population. Sørlandet is the south coast, Vestlandet the fjords and the oil coast, Trøndelag the middle, and Nord-Norge everything from Nordland north.
Oslo is a county of its own that is also a single municipality, tucked into the head of the Oslofjord. Akershus surrounds it on land, so the quickest way to find the capital is to find the county that has a hole in it.
Finnmark is the northernmost and the largest county by area, and borders both Finland and Russia. It was part of Troms og Finnmark from 2020 until the split in 2024, so a map older than that shows it without a border to its south.
Vestland was formed in 2020 from Hordaland and Sogn og Fjordane, and holds Bergen, the second largest city, and the Sognefjord. Unlike the three mergers undone in 2024, it kept its 2020 shape.
15, since 1 January 2024. There were 18 until the end of 2019, 11 from 2020, and the three largest mergers were reversed in 2024.
A fylke (plural: fylker). Each has a county council, the fylkesting, and a county governor appointed by the state.
Because of the 2020 merger and its partial reversal. Viken, Vestfold og Telemark and Troms og Finnmark appear on maps from 2020 to 2023 and nowhere else.
No. It is administered directly by a governor under its own law, and is not one of the 15 counties or drawn in this game.
The landsdeler, the traditional parts of the country. They are not administrative divisions, but they are how Norwegians say where something is, and they are the groups this game is cut by.
The tier below this one is Norway Municipalities, and the 15 answers here are the 15 groups there, so it is the place to go once the counties come easily. For another country at this level, see Sweden Counties and Netherlands Provinces.
