Administrative units municipalities
The dataset shows national, county and municipal divisions within the country. It has the most accurate boundaries that have been recorded digitally and are collected in a dataset.
The municipalities are delimited by National Border, Outer Limit of Territorial Waters 12 Nautical Miles, Agreed Delimitation Line, county boundary and municipal boundary.
The dataset also includes a baseline and 1 nautical mile, which are legal lines that can be used when processing cases linked with specific laws.
The units include properties which indicate official municipal numbers. The official Norwegian, Sami and Kven names for counties and municipalities are taken from SSR. There is also information about Sami language administrative districts.
Simple
- Date (Publication)
- 2006-07-01
- Date (Creation)
- 0001-01-01
- Date (Revision)
- 2024-12-17
- Code
- kommuner
- Purpose
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The dataset consists of the official county boundaries.
- Status
- On going
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Norwegian Mapping Authority
Publisher Norwegian Mapping Authority
Liv Mari Nesje
Owner
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Administrative enheter
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- Nasjonal inndeling i geografiske initiativ og SDI-er
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NSDI data
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Inspire
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Geodata Act
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Norway Digital
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Beredskapsbase
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dataNorgeNo
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Felles datakatalog
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- Nasjonal tematisk inndeling (DOK-kategori)
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Basis geodata
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- Place
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Norway Mainland
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- Theme
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Municipality
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Administrative units
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Administrative borders
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Kommunegrenser
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Fylkesgrenser
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Riksgrense
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ABAS
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- Specific usage
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Administrative case processing. Analysis and display in a GIS system. Display of statistics and analyses. Production of maps and derived products.
- User contact info
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Owner
- Use limitation
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No conditions apply
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Åpne data
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Creative Commons BY 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)
- Classification
- Unclassified
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Denominator
- 5000
- Language
- Norwegian
- Topic category
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- Boundaries
- Description
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- Begin date
- 2025-01-01
- Supplemental Information
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The geometry is derived from the Cadastre, which is updated by the municipalities. National Borders and Outer Limit of Territorial Waters are inserted from the Norwegian Mapping Authority's own established files.
- Unique resource identifier
- EPSG:25832
- Unique resource identifier
- EPSG:25833
- Unique resource identifier
- EPSG:25835
- Unique resource identifier
- EPSG:3035
- Unique resource identifier
- EPSG:4258
Spatial representation info
- Distribution format
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Name Version FGDB
FGDB
10.0
GeoJSON
GML
GML
3.2.1
PostGIS
12
PostGIS
9.4
SOSI
4.5
FGDB
GeoJSON
GML
PostGIS
SOSI
Distributor
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Kartverket
Distributor
- Distributor format
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Name Version SOSI
4.5
- Units of distribution
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fylkesvis, kommunevis, landsfiler
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name GEONORGE:DOWNLOAD
https://nedlasting.test.geonorge.no/api/capabilities/
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Domain consistency
Conformance result
- Title
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COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Title
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inspire
- Date
- Explanation
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The data is according to the product specification
- Pass
- Yes
Conformance result
- Title
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SOSI produktspesifikasjon: Administrative enheter Norge
- Date (Publication)
- 2022-12-14
- Title
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sosi
- Date
- Explanation
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The data is according to the product specification
- Pass
- Yes
Domain consistency
Conformance result
- Title
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Sosi applikasjonsskjema
- Date (Publication)
- 2022-12-14
- Title
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uml-sosi
- Date
- Explanation
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SOSI files are according to application form
- Pass
- Yes
Conformance result
- Title
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Sosi applikasjonsskjema
- Date (Publication)
- 2022-12-14
- Title
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uml-gml
- Date
- Explanation
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GML files are according to application form
- Pass
- Yes
Completeness omission
- Name of measure
- Prosentvis dekning i forhold til datasettets utstrekning
- Measure description
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Datasettets faktiske kartlagte areal i forhold til datasettets spesifiserte utstrekning
Quantitative result
- Value
- 100
Completeness omission
- Name of measure
- Prosentvis oppfyllelse av FAIR-prinsipper
- Measure description
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Angir fullstendighet i forhold til krav fra FAIR-prinsippene (The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship)
Quantitative result
- Value
- 96
Metadata
- File identifier
- 041f1e6e-bdbc-4091-b48f-8a5990f3cc5b XML
- Metadata language
- Norwegian
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-04-30
- Metadata standard name
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ISO19115
- Metadata standard version
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2003
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Norwegian Mapping Authority
Liv Mari Nesje
Point of contact
- Other language
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Language Character encoding English UTF8