Scandinavia Map with Regions and Counties

The map of Scandinavia shows 41 regions and counties. Denmark has 5 regions, Norway has 15 counties and Sweden has 21 counties. Denmark's 11 provinces (landsdele) are statistical groupings inside the 5 regions, so they are not drawn. Oslo is a county of its own and counts as one of the 15 Norwegian units. Together the 41 hold 22.3 million people (national statistics offices, 2026), of whom 10.6 million live in Sweden, 6.0 million in Denmark and 5.6 million in Norway.

By land area, Norrbotten in Sweden is the largest of the 41 units with 97,973 km² (Statistics Sweden, 2026), and Oslo in Norway is the smallest with 426.4 km² (Statistics Norway, 2026). By population, Stockholm in Sweden is the largest with 2,486,251 people (Statistics Sweden, 2026), and Gotland in Sweden is the smallest with 60,852 (Statistics Sweden, 2026). Sweden holds both population extremes, while the area extremes come from different countries. Land area here means land only, without inland water.

Sweden has two overlapping layers: 21 counties (län), each with a county administrative board, and 25 historical provinces (landskap) with no administrative role. The map draws the counties. Many counties cover parts of more than one province, so a province cannot be rebuilt by adding counties together. Västra Götaland has 1,777,803 people (Statistics Sweden, 2026) and Skåne has 1,433,083 (Statistics Sweden, 2026), while Gotland, the island county in the Baltic, is the least populous. For Sweden alone, open the Sweden counties map.

Norway's five traditional regions, Nord-Norge, Trøndelag, Vestlandet, Sørlandet and Østlandet, are informal groupings and not administrative units, so they are not drawn. The map shows the 15 counties (fylker) of 1 January 2024 instead, with the two older boundary lines described in Key Facts. Akershus is the most populous county with 749,207 people (Statistics Norway, 2026), ahead of Oslo with 728,714 and Vestland with 658,342. Searches for Norwegian provinces lead to these same counties, and the Norway counties map shows them without Denmark and Sweden.

Not directly, because they are different kinds of unit. Denmark's 5 regions are NUTS 2 units in the European statistical system, while Sweden's 21 counties are NUTS 3, so the two sit on different statistical levels. A Danish region has 1.2 million people on average, about three times a Norwegian county with 375,000 and more than twice a Swedish one with 505,000 (national statistics offices, 2026). Hovedstaden alone has 1,947,212 people (Statistics Denmark, 2026), well above Akershus, Norway's most populous county, at 749,207 (Statistics Norway, 2026).

Yes, by one unit on the map. Hovedstaden and Sjælland merge into Eastern Denmark (Region Østdanmark) on 1 January 2027, which takes Denmark from 5 regions to 4 and the map of Scandinavia from 41 units to 40. Until then the map draws the five regions in force. Hovedstaden has 1,947,212 people and Sjælland has 858,102 (Statistics Denmark, 2026), so the merged region would hold about 2.8 million. Norway's change came earlier, on 1 January 2024, when its counties were split again.

No. Svalbard and Jan Mayen are Norwegian territory but lie outside the frame, so no unit stands for them, and Finland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands are not units on this map. For Denmark, Norway and Sweden as three single units, use the Scandinavia map. For the wider region, use the Nordic countries map with regions and counties, which draws these same 41 units and adds Finland's 19 regions, Iceland's 8 and the Faroe Islands as one unit, 69 in all.

No account is needed to start. Open the map in the free Ultimaps editor, then click a unit to color it, or upload a table with one row per unit and its value. Match the rows by region name, since seven Norwegian county codes are not ISO ones. Oslo is a county of its own, so it takes a row of its own. Add pins and labels, then share the finished map by link or embed it on a website. A free export is a standard PNG with a small Ultimaps credit. High-resolution PNG, SVG and PDF export are Pro features.