Blank Map Norway

The outline of mainland Norway and its fjord coast, plain or with older county lines.

Blank Map Norway

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Write the name of each numbered place (2017 county lines).Answer key

  1. Oslo
  2. Østfold
  3. Vestfold
  4. Buskerud
  5. Telemark
  6. Agder
  7. Rogaland
  8. Vestland
  9. Møre og Romsdal
  10. Innlandet
  11. Trøndelag
  12. Nordland
  13. Troms
  14. Finnmark

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Each place (2017 county lines) is a button. Use the arrow keys to move between them and Enter to choose. Names are read out in Study, and once a place (2017 county lines) is answered.

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  1. Oslo The capital, a city that is also a county.
  2. Østfold The southeast corner, between the fjord and Sweden.
  3. Vestfold A small county on the west shore of the fjord.
  4. Buskerud West of Oslo, between Telemark and Innlandet.
  5. Telemark In the south, between Vestfold and Agder.
  6. Agder The southern tip of Norway.
  7. Rogaland The southwest corner of the country.
  8. Vestland The west coast, cut by long fjords.
  9. Møre og Romsdal On the coast between Vestland and Trøndelag.
  10. Innlandet The largest county, inland along the Swedish border.
  11. Trøndelag Across the middle of the country, north of Innlandet.
  12. Nordland The long, narrow county south of Troms.
  13. Troms In the north, between Nordland and Finnmark.
  14. Finnmark The far northeast, bordering Finland and Russia.

How this list was compiled: Items made on 2026-10-01. The names are today's counties, in force since 1 January 2024: checked on 2026-10-01 against Statistics Norway's standard for counties (classification 104, https://data.ssb.no/api/klass/v1/classifications/104/codesAt?date=2026-10-01) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counties_of_Norway. THE LINES ARE DATED: the boundary file has the 19 counties of before 2018, and the spec joins four pairs into Trøndelag, Innlandet, Agder and Vestland, which gives 15 shapes. Ten municipalities of 2017 are in another county today and are drawn with their old one (Rømskog, Jevnaker, Lunner, Røyken, Hurum, Svelvik, Hornindal, Rindal, Halsa, Tjeldsund: Statistics Norway's changes to the municipality classification 131, https://data.ssb.no/api/klass/v1/classifications/131/changes?from=2017-01-02&to=2026-10-01, read 2026-10-01). A boundary adjustment of 1 January 2026 also moved part of Indre Østfold, in Østfold, to Nordre Follo and Vestby, two municipalities of Akershus (the version of classification 131 valid from 2026-01-01, https://data.ssb.no/api/klass/v1/versions/3262, read 2026-10-01); it is not drawn either. FOURTEEN of the 15 shapes are items. Akershus is drawn and is NOT in this file: five of the ten municipalities joined it, more than joined any other county, and it carries no number. Of the fourteen, Oslo, Rogaland, Agder, Telemark and Finnmark are exact and nine are off by one to three municipalities (Møre og Romsdal by three: Rindal and Halsa are drawn in it and Hornindal outside it; Østfold also by the adjustment of 2026). The item noun carries the date, so the printed sheet and the list heading say "2017 county lines". The page opens on the plain outline, so the ring the points file gives Oslo is left out (its leader line would stand alone on the outline) and Oslo's number sits on its own small shape, which the number mark covers. Points moved by hand inside their shapes so that every name of the Named sheet has room: Østfold, Vestfold, Telemark and Agder. Svalbard, Jan Mayen and Bouvet Island are not drawn. Licence: public domain (Natural Earth terms of use: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/)

The drawing: Drawn for this site from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_10m_admin_1_states_provinces (scale 1:10,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_admin_1_states_provinces.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Surrounding land from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_10m_admin_0_countries (scale 1:10,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_admin_0_countries.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection centred on 65.1°N 12.4°E. Outlines simplified; small islands are left out. Licence: public domain (Natural Earth terms of use: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/)

How it works

This blank outline map of Norway opens on the plain outline of the mainland, with Sweden, Finland and Russia drawn plain beside it. Switch Borders on for county lines. They come from an older map, so some are off.

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A plain outline first

The sheet opens with nothing inside the outline. Press Print this map for an outline to draw fjords, cities or counties on.

Today’s counties on older lines

Borders adds the county lines of 2017 with four pairs of older counties joined. That gives the 15 counties Norway has had since 2024. Ten municipalities and part of another have changed county since 2017, so several lines are off. Numbered and Named label 14 counties. Akershus, around Oslo, gained five of them and has no number.

  • Oslo’s shape is smaller than its number. The unnumbered area around it is Akershus; students can write that name in themselves.

Questions and answers

How many counties does Norway have?

Fifteen, since 1 January 2024. A reform cut the 19 older counties to 11 in 2020, and three of the merged counties were split again in 2024.

Which counties of Norway were merged?

Four of today’s counties are two older ones joined: Trøndelag in 2018, and Innlandet, Agder and Vestland in 2020. Innlandet was Hedmark and Oppland, and Vestland was Hordaland and Sogn og Fjordane. Each is one shape on this map.

Why does Akershus have no number?

The map source has the 19 counties of before 2018, joined here into today’s 15. Ten municipalities and part of another have changed county since. Five of them, among them Hurum and Lunner, went to Akershus, more than to any other county.

Are Svalbard and Jan Mayen on the map?

No. The two island territories lie outside the county system, far from the mainland, and are not drawn. The sheet shows mainland Norway and the islands along its coast.

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