Norway Unitary state

Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a unitary state in Northern Europe. It has a population of 5 million. It is Europe’s second-least densely populated country, after Iceland.

Norway is subdivided into municipalities (kommune) and counties (fylkeskommune)*.

Markers

STATE STRUCTURE:

Unitary

CURRENCY:

Norvegian Kone (NOK)

VOTE

Non-compulsory

0

SEAT AT THE
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
Ratification of the European Charter
of Local Self-Government in 2008

447

LOCAL GOVERNMENTS (IN 2016)
CAPITAL CITY:

Oslo
POPULATION:

5 258 000
GEOGRAPHICAL SIZE:

32 387 km2
MEMBER STATE

Council of Europe since 1949

0

SEAT AT THE COMMITTEE
OF REGIONS

2

LEVELS OF SUB-NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS

Evolution

NUMBER OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES*

* Dates of CEMR publications