Counties of Norway Counties of Norway Norway is divided into 18 administrative regions, called counties (singular , plural (Bokmål) / "fylke" (Nynorsk) from Old Norse: "fylki" from the word "folk"); until 1918, they were known as "amter". The counties form the first-level subdivisions of Norway and are further divided into 422 municipalities ("kommune", pl. "kommuner" / "kommunar"). The island territories of Svalbard and Jan Mayen are outside the county division and ruled directly at the national level. The capital Oslo is considered both a county and a municipality. In 2017 the government decided to abolish the current counties and to replace them with
History of the Jews in Norway about what happened to them in the Holocaust". However, this survey has been critiqued for being unreasonably simplistic in its classification of "harboring antisemitic attitudes". History of the Jews in Norway The Jews in Norway are one of the country's smallest ethnic and religious minorities, but have lived in Norway since the late fifteenth century. The population was devastated during the Holocaust, in which a significant portion of Norwegian Jews were murdered by Nazi Germany. Although there likely were Jewish merchants, sailors and others who entered Norway during the Middle Ages, no efforts were made to establish a Jewish community.