Talk:Metropolitan regions of Norway

I arrived to this page starting from italian Wiki (I'm italian, in fact, so please forgive any error...), and I've found that there's a severe discrepancy between this page and the correspondant one in norwegian. Although I don't speak a word in that language, it appears to be a huge difference in the information: e.g., the english page talks about 6 + 10 "areas", while the norwegian one refer to 14 "areas", there is a few (or none) correspondance among the names in the various tables, etc.

Is it possible to try to amend this?

94.127.83.40 (talk) 15:56, 21 December 2015 (UTC)Alberto Magrassi - almagras@libero.it

I agree that work needs to be carried out to bring the article into line with the (more accurate) information at no:Byregioner. The main causes of the discrepancies are:

• The English-language article has separate entries for a "Drammen Region" and a "Moss Region" made up of a total of 12 kommuner (municipalities). In reality these form part of the Stor-Oslo (Greater Oslo) Region. This accounts for the listing of 6+10 regions in the en: article when there are, in fact, only 14 (as indicated in the no: article).
• The number of kommuner in each region is incorrect in the en: version as far as the Ålesund, Bodø, Haugesund, and Trondheim Regions are concerned: this has a knock-on effect on population totals and size-ranking.

The population figures in the en: article could do with being updated, once corrections responding to the aforementioned points have been made.

Also relevant, I think, is that the en: article makes a distinction between the six largest regions and the others which is not present in the no: article. The 2003 Norwegian government study cited does make this distinction for the purposes of its report, but that does not AFAIK mean that there is at present any administrative/legal distinction between the "top six" and the others.

I can see (anticipating the "well, if you know what's wrong, then go ahead and fix it" reaction) that I've given myself plenty of work to do! -- Picapica (talk) 21:46, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

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