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Norway: 11 provinces, states and territories

Every administrative level, from the 11 first-level units down to ADM2, on a terrain map with people, density and sources.

Page GRX-NOR-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO NOR / NOStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
11
first-level units
442
units at 2 levels
4,707,565
people (GHSL 2025)
Terrain
open relief

01Map

Norway by province, state and territory

11 first-level units and 431 second-level units inside them, raised by people per km² over the population grid and terrain. Select a unit to drill in or open its page.

FIG 1 · 11 first-level units of Norway
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Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1 ADM2Risk values when released
Lowest fifthLow fifthMiddle fifthHigh fifthHighest fifthNo data
Column height and colour show people per km² by unit, in quantile fifths among the units shown (the key on the map gives the breaks); units with no people on the grid are grey, not the lowest class; the raster beneath is the GHSL 2025 population grid. Source observations, not index values. Select a unit to drill into the units inside it; the path above the map climbs back.
02Levels

Every administrative level of Norway

Each level comes from the boundary source admitted for that country and level, with its own licence.

ADM1
11 first-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) · each with its own page
ADM2
431 second-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · each with its own page
03Units

All 11 first-level units

Two population estimates from open grids, summed inside each boundary. The CSV carries the first two levels; each unit page carries the levels below it.

Boundary licences: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Unit Ikhowudi People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Agder NO-42 257,137 272,982 16,305 16 5.5% 13,604
Innlandet NO-34 370,213 373,082 51,758 7 7.9% 0
Møre og Romsdal NO-15 164,039 171,374 14,272 11 3.5% 6,048
Nordland NO-18 154,501 157,160 37,544 4 3.3% 9,899
Oslo NO-03 649,953 678,318 449 1,448 13.8% 7,044
Rogaland NO-11 404,402 404,356 9,288 44 8.6% 24,521
Troms og Finnmark NO-54 161,298 164,338 74,345 2 3.4% 7,850
Trøndelag NO-50 431,271 446,744 41,784 10 9.2% 14,847
Vestfold og Telemark NO-38 351,921 353,526 17,321 20 7.5% 20,114
Vestland NO-46 534,480 507,878 33,519 16 11.4% 11,537
Viken NO-30 1,228,350 1,298,936 24,425 50 26.1% 33,950
04Umngcipheko

Subnational risk products

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Norway publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index, with intervals and sources. Until then these pages show boundaries, people and exposure only.
05Imithombo

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen NOR ADM1, source: Kartverket, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) · source · represents 2022
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen NOR ADM2, source: Geonorge, Mapping Authority of Norway, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · source · represents 2013
Basemap
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
Terrain
Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
People
GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
Amazwe
Natural Earth (public domain).
Elevation
GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
Position
Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.

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