Subdivisions of the Nordic countries

Administrative divisions of the Nordic countries in 1998.

The subdivisions of the Nordic countries are similar given the countries' shared culture and history.

Denmark

• Mainland Denmark
  • 5 regions (Danish: regioner)
  • 98 municipalities (Danish: kommuner)
• 2 autonomous insular overseas dependencies
  • Faroe Islands
    • 6 regions
    • 30 municipalities
  • Greenland
    • 4 municipalities
    • 1 unincorporated national park

Finland

• Finland
  • 19 regions (Finnish: maakunnat, Swedish: landskap)
    • Åland Islands
  • 70 sub-regions (Finnish: seutukunnat, Swedish: ekonomisk regioner)
  • 320 municipalities (Finnish: kunnat, Swedish: kommuner)

Iceland

• Iceland
  • 6 constituencies (Icelandic: kjördæmi), electoral
  • 8 regions (Icelandic: landsvæði), statistical
  • 74 municipalities (Icelandic: sveitarfélög), administrative

Norway

• Mainland Norway
  • 19 counties (Norwegian: fylker)
  • 428 municipalities (Norwegian: kommuner)
• overseas dependencies
  • 2 unincorporated overseas dependencies
  • 3 unintegrated overseas dependencies

Sweden

• Sweden
  • 21 counties Swedish: län)
  • 290 municipalities Swedish: kommuner)