A Norwegian county road ( or ) is a highway in Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 that is owned and maintained by the local county municipality

County municipality (Norway)

A county municipality is a Norwegian public elected body that is responsible for certain public administrative and service tasks within a county. Each county consists of county municipality, with the exception of Oslo, which is both a municipality and a county municipality...

. Some of the roads have road signs. The signs are white with black numbers.

History

In 1931, a system of national road

Norwegian national road

Norwegian national road , are roads thus categorized by the Norwegian Public Roads Administration which also maintains them...

s (Riksvei), county roads (Fylkesvei), and municipal roads (kommunale vei) was established. In 2009, there were a total of 27262 kilometres (16,939.9 mi) of county roads in Norway. This accounted for 29.2% of the 93247 kilometres (57,941.1 mi) public roads in Norway. On 1 January 2010, most national roads that were not trunk road

Trunk road

A trunk road, trunk highway, or strategic road is a major road—usually connecting two or more cities, ports, airports, and other things.—which is the recommended route for long-distance and freight traffic...

s (Stamvei) were transferred to the counties and therefore became county roads. On that date 17200 kilometres (10,687.6 mi) of highway and 78 kilometres (48.5 mi) of ferry travel was transferred to the counties, at a compensation of . After the transfer, counties had about 44000 kilometres (27,340.4 mi) of roads and the state had about 10000 kilometres (6,213.7 mi) of its road network. After the reform came into force, there are two types of county roads in Norway—the original county roads that were not signposted and the new county roads that are numbered (the former national roads).

External links

• Veglister 2011 by Statens Vegvesen