There are 15 counties in Norway. The 15 counties are administrative regions that are the first-level administrative divisions of Norway. The counties are further subdivided into 357 municipalities. The island territories of Svalbard and Jan Mayen are outside the county divisions and they are ruled directly from the national level. The capital city of Oslo is both a county and a municipality.
The Norwegian Guide and Scout Association is a Norwegian Scouting and Guiding association founded in its present form in 1978, when the Norwegian Boy Scout Organization and the Norwegian Girl Guide Organization merged.
The Liberal Party is a social liberal political party in Norway. It was founded in 1884 and is the oldest political party in Norway. It is positioned in the centre on the political spectrum, and it is a liberal party which has over the time enacted reforms such as parliamentarism, freedom of religion, universal suffrage, and state schooling.
Norges Bank is the central bank of Norway. It is responsible for managing the Government Pension Fund of Norway, which is the world's largest sovereign wealth fund, as well as the bank's own foreign exchange reserves.
The Christian Unity Party was a Christian conservative and fundamentalist political party in Norway without parliamentary representation. The party's ideology is based on literal interpretation of the Bible, traditional values, and opposition to reforms in the Church of Norway.
The coat of arms of Norway is the arms of dominion of King Harald V of Norway, and as such represents both the monarch and the kingdom. It depicts a standing golden lion on a red background, bearing a golden crown and axe with silver blade.
Inge Ryan is a Norwegian politician for the Socialist Left Party. From 2009 to 2017, he was County Governor of Nord-Trøndelag. Ryan was mayor of Namsskogan from 1991 to 1995, and was a member of the Parliament of Norway from 2001 to 2009, the last four years as his party's parliamentary leader.
Erling Sande is a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party. He represents Sogn og Fjordane in the Norwegian Parliament, where he deputised for Liv Signe Navarsete, who served in government between 2005 and 2013. He was elected as a regular representative following the 2021 election. Sande has served as minister of local government since 2023.
SpareBank 1 Sør-Norge, formerly SpareBank 1 SR-Bank and SpareBank 1 Sørøst-Norge, is a Norwegian bank and lender with 36 offices from Bergen in the west to Oslo in the east, with head office located in Stavanger. As of 2019, the bank has more than 1,250 employees with its subsidiaries.
The Norwegian Year of Cultural Heritage 2009 or Kulturminneåret 2009 was aimed at highlighting the diversity and importance of Norway's cultural heritage for all sectors of the community. Under the theme of Cultural Heritage in Everyday Life, the arrangements were intended to involve both ordinary citizens and professionals at local, regional and national levels.
Norge.no is a web guide for citizens to online public services in Norway. The web portal has information about how citizens can communicate digitally with public authorities, log into public services and choose a digital mailbox.
Olav Ulleren is a Norwegian organizational leader, civil servant and former politician for the Centre Party. A veterinarian by education, he was a mayor and State Secretary during his political career, and has since made his mark as general director of the Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities. He is currently CEO of The Norwegian Heart and Lung Patient Organization's clinics.
Sigrun Elisabeth Vågeng is a Norwegian public sector official. From 2015 to 2020 she was director of the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration.
The Quisling regime, or Quisling government are common names used to refer to the fascist collaboration government led by Vidkun Quisling in German-occupied Norway during the Second World War. The official name of the regime from 1 February 1942 until its dissolution in May 1945 was Den nasjonale regjering. Actual executive power was retained by the Reichskommissariat Norwegen, headed by Josef Terboven.
The Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities is an employers' organisation in Norway.
Arvid Weber Skjærpe is a Norwegian journalist and director.
SK Djerv 1919 is a 4th tier 3. divisjon of Norwegian football football club established in 1919 based in Haugesund, Norway.
The Norwegian Association of the Blind is the advocacy group for the blind and visually impaired in Norway. It is Norway's oldest association of the disabled.
Anarchism in Norway first emerged in the 1870s. Some of the first to call themselves anarchists in Norway were Arne Garborg and Ivar Mortensson-Egnund. They ran the radical target magazine Fedraheimen which came out 1877–91. Gradually the magazine became more and more anarchist-oriented, and towards the end of its life it had the subtitle Anarchist-Communist Body. The anarchist author Hans Jæger published the book "The Bible of Anarchy" in 1906, and in recent times Jens Bjørneboe has been a spokesman for anarchism – among other things in the book "Police and anarchy".
