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Norway administrative boundaries

15 counties and 357 municipalities, each with its official code, in GeoJSON, TopoJSON, GeoPackage, Shapefile, layered SVG, CSV and SQL.

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counties
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municipalities
357
edition
Outline of Norway

One of the examples in the package

A layered SVG coloured from a table with a few lines of plain JavaScript: every entity is a path whose id is its official code. The page shows a part of the country: the two levels share the same borders, so they fit without gaps. The package has every entity of every level.

Vestland: its municipalities, coloured by area, among the neighbouring counties.

What is in the package

Levels and identifiers

LevelEntitiesIdentifier
country1NO
counties15NO-P-<official code>
municipalities357NO-M-<official code>

Every entity has the same identifier in every file: it is the feature id in GeoJSON and TopoJSON, the id of the path in SVG and the id column of the tables. The history lists 841 suppressed municipalities with their successor.

Formats and scales

Format full 100m 1km 10km light
GeoJSON 61.4 MB 12.6 MB 1.0 MB 33 KB 616 KB
TopoJSON 13.1 MB 2.8 MB 339 KB 16 KB 460 KB
Shapefile 50.7 MB 10.4 MB 843 KB 27 KB 510 KB
SVG - 11.3 MB 962 KB 29 KB 631 KB
  • full: the boundaries as published by the source.
  • 100m: simplified within 100 m and coherent: municipalities and counties share exactly the same border vertices.
  • 1km: simplified within 1 km and coherent like 100m, every level: the whole country on a web map.
  • 10km: simplified within 10 km and coherent, country and counties only: small maps and maps of many countries.
  • At the borders with the neighbouring countries (Finland) the 100m, 1km and 10km boundaries share the same vertices as in their packages, so the maps fit without gaps or overlaps.
  • light: country and counties only, each level simplified on its own to a small file.
  • GeoJSON: one FeatureCollection per level, WGS84. TopoJSON: all the levels in one topology, shared borders are shared arcs.
  • GeoPackage: data/geopackage/no.gpkg (64.2 MB), one file for QGIS and ArcGIS with every level at every scale as a layer (municipalities_100m) with its spatial index, and every table of the package.
  • Shapefile: one per level and scale, WGS84, UTF-8; the columns longer than ten characters are shortened (region, province, abbrev).
  • SVG: one file per level and one with every level as a layer, in a Lambert conformal conic projection; they open as layers in Illustrator, Figma and Inkscape.
  • SQL: a script for PostGIS, one for MySQL 8 and one for SQL Server (11.9 MB each). It creates one table with every entity of every level, its 100m boundary in WGS84 and its indexes.
  • JSON: data/json/tree.json (26 KB), the levels nested and sorted by name, without boundaries: what the select boxes of a form need.

Tables

CSV, UTF-8. Names in EN, IT, ES, FR, DE, NL, PT, besides the official one.

FileRowsContent
tables/country.csv 1 The country: names, population, bounding box, centre and label point.
code, name, population, min_lat, min_lng, max_lat, max_lng, center_lat, center_lng, label_lat, label_lng, id, name_en, name_it, name_es, name_fr, name_de, name_nl, name_pt
tables/provinces.csv 15 The counties: official code, abbreviation, the code of the parent, names, area, population, bounding box, centre and label point.
code, name, abbreviation, region_code, area_km2, population, min_lat, min_lng, max_lat, max_lng, center_lat, center_lng, label_lat, label_lng, id, name_en, name_it, name_es, name_fr, name_de, name_nl, name_pt
tables/municipalities.csv 357 The municipalities: official code, the codes of the parents, names, area, population, elevation in metres (of the centre, or lowest and highest point, as the official source gives it), bounding box, centre and label point.
code, name, province_code, province_abbreviation, region_code, cadastral_code, chief_town, area_km2, population, elevation, elevation_min, elevation_max, elevation_mean, min_lat, min_lng, max_lat, max_lng, center_lat, center_lng, label_lat, label_lng, id, name_en, name_it, name_es, name_fr, name_de, name_nl, name_pt
tables/names.csv 373 Every name an entity is written with (official, each side of a bilingual name, translated), without accents and as a slug: to match a file that has names and no codes.
id, level, name, name_ascii, slug, kind
tables/neighbours.csv 1,552 The entities of the same level that share a border, both ways, with the length of the shared border in km.
level, id, neighbour_id, shared_border_km
tables/history.csv 841 The suppressed municipalities with the one that replaced them, for archives that still have the old codes; no rows where the official source gives no history.
code, name, province_code, replaced_by_code, replaced_by_name
tables/changes.csv 0 What changed from one edition of the package to the next, one row per entity added, removed, renamed, moved or with a new boundary: the same as CHANGELOG.md.
edition, date, level, id, name, change, before, after

Sources and licenses

The package is a derived work of the official datasets below; their publishers do not endorse it. What you may do with it is in the license of the packages.

Files

All the 113 files of the package, with their size.

ATTRIBUTION.md2 KB
CHANGELOG.md0 KB
LICENSE.md2 KB
README.md11 KB
data/geojson/100m/country.geojson3.7 MB
data/geojson/100m/municipalities.geojson4.9 MB
data/geojson/100m/provinces.geojson3.9 MB
data/geojson/10km/country.geojson13 KB
data/geojson/10km/provinces.geojson20 KB
data/geojson/1km/country.geojson236 KB
data/geojson/1km/municipalities.geojson529 KB
data/geojson/1km/provinces.geojson275 KB
data/geojson/full/municipalities.geojson38.2 MB
data/geojson/full/provinces.geojson23.2 MB
data/geojson/light/country.geojson39 KB
data/geojson/light/provinces.geojson577 KB
data/geopackage/no.gpkg64.2 MB
data/json/tree.json26 KB
data/shapefile/100m/country.cpg0 KB
data/shapefile/100m/country.dbf0 KB
data/shapefile/100m/country.prj0 KB
data/shapefile/100m/country.shp3.1 MB
data/shapefile/100m/country.shx0 KB
data/shapefile/100m/municipalities.cpg0 KB
data/shapefile/100m/municipalities.dbf21 KB
data/shapefile/100m/municipalities.prj0 KB
data/shapefile/100m/municipalities.shp4.0 MB
data/shapefile/100m/municipalities.shx3 KB
data/shapefile/100m/provinces.cpg0 KB
data/shapefile/100m/provinces.dbf1 KB
data/shapefile/100m/provinces.prj0 KB
data/shapefile/100m/provinces.shp3.2 MB
data/shapefile/100m/provinces.shx0 KB
data/shapefile/10km/country.cpg0 KB
data/shapefile/10km/country.dbf0 KB
data/shapefile/10km/country.prj0 KB
data/shapefile/10km/country.shp10 KB
data/shapefile/10km/country.shx0 KB
data/shapefile/10km/provinces.cpg0 KB
data/shapefile/10km/provinces.dbf1 KB
data/shapefile/10km/provinces.prj0 KB
data/shapefile/10km/provinces.shp15 KB
data/shapefile/10km/provinces.shx0 KB
data/shapefile/1km/country.cpg0 KB
data/shapefile/1km/country.dbf0 KB
data/shapefile/1km/country.prj0 KB
data/shapefile/1km/country.shp196 KB
data/shapefile/1km/country.shx0 KB
data/shapefile/1km/municipalities.cpg0 KB
data/shapefile/1km/municipalities.dbf21 KB
data/shapefile/1km/municipalities.prj0 KB
data/shapefile/1km/municipalities.shp395 KB
data/shapefile/1km/municipalities.shx3 KB
data/shapefile/1km/provinces.cpg0 KB
data/shapefile/1km/provinces.dbf1 KB
data/shapefile/1km/provinces.prj0 KB
data/shapefile/1km/provinces.shp226 KB
data/shapefile/1km/provinces.shx0 KB
data/shapefile/full/municipalities.cpg0 KB
data/shapefile/full/municipalities.dbf21 KB
data/shapefile/full/municipalities.prj0 KB
data/shapefile/full/municipalities.shp31.5 MB
data/shapefile/full/municipalities.shx3 KB
data/shapefile/full/provinces.cpg0 KB
data/shapefile/full/provinces.dbf1 KB
data/shapefile/full/provinces.prj0 KB
data/shapefile/full/provinces.shp19.2 MB
data/shapefile/full/provinces.shx0 KB
data/shapefile/light/country.cpg0 KB
data/shapefile/light/country.dbf0 KB
data/shapefile/light/country.prj0 KB
data/shapefile/light/country.shp32 KB
data/shapefile/light/country.shx0 KB
data/shapefile/light/provinces.cpg0 KB
data/shapefile/light/provinces.dbf1 KB
data/shapefile/light/provinces.prj0 KB
data/shapefile/light/provinces.shp476 KB
data/shapefile/light/provinces.shx0 KB
data/topojson/100m/no.topojson2.8 MB
data/topojson/10km/no.topojson16 KB
data/topojson/1km/no.topojson339 KB
data/topojson/full/no.topojson13.1 MB
data/topojson/light/no.topojson460 KB
examples/choropleth-svg.html2.1 MB
examples/drill-down-d3.html2.4 MB
examples/leaflet-geojson.html580 KB
examples/lib/LICENSES.md3 KB
examples/lib/d3.min.js273 KB
examples/lib/leaflet.css14 KB
examples/lib/leaflet.js144 KB
examples/lib/topojson-client.min.js7 KB
examples/point-lookup.html3.9 MB
flags/NO.svg0 KB
sql/mysql.sql11.9 MB
sql/postgis.sql11.9 MB
sql/sqlserver.sql11.9 MB
svg/100m/layers.svg6.6 MB
svg/100m/municipalities.svg2.6 MB
svg/100m/provinces.svg2.1 MB
svg/10km/layers.svg18 KB
svg/10km/provinces.svg11 KB
svg/1km/layers.svg543 KB
svg/1km/municipalities.svg273 KB
svg/1km/provinces.svg146 KB
svg/light/layers.svg326 KB
svg/light/provinces.svg305 KB
tables/changes.csv0 KB
tables/country.csv0 KB
tables/history.csv25 KB
tables/municipalities.csv62 KB
tables/names.csv21 KB
tables/neighbours.csv63 KB
tables/provinces.csv3 KB

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