Administrative divisions of Ostland

Ostland, officially known as the Republic of Ostland is a Nordic country, located in Northern Europe, specifically in Scandinavia. Its territories compose the Ostlandic Archipielago, formed by five major and 4 minor islands. They are divided into three administrative levels: 15 counties, 59 districts and 152 communes, and the Autonomous Territory of Saltning Islands.

Islands
Ostland is composed of 4 main islands and a special territory with special status, the Saltnings Islands. However, Islands does not represents a level in administrative division.

First level
Ostlandic National State Constitution (in Ostlandic: Ostlandisk Natijonal Statkonstitution) establishes that "The first level constitutes major land, and, or, urban division for the Ostlandic territories". This level was first introduced in 1820.

Counties
Counties (Oslandic: countk, plural. countker) formerly known as: grafskav. Counties are the main administrative division in the country. It is the equivalent of historical Prefectures, ruled by a Royal Governor which were personally chosen by the King, untill March 19, 1908, when prefectures were removed and counties were introduced. Counties were established by historical or demographic criteria, being the county of Nordostat the first one to be introduced, on the same day reforms were approved. Each island has a Council, where county governor meet with they team, districts majors and district managers every week in a General Meeting to discuss county's matters of importance.

As of 2002, Ostland is composed of 15 counties, two of them being Cities with special status, City-Counties.

Special Cities
There are two cities with an special political status: Nordøstat and Timsgrat, which their Metropolitan areas constitutes their own county. They are informally known as City - Counties (Ostlandic: Byen-Countker). Timsgrat was promoted to a City-County status after Protests of 1976 caused by the dissatisfaction of city's population about the government of Karelstat county being corrupt and unable to attend their needs.

Ostland Styrøe
As of 1978, Ostland Styroe (Ostland's Great Island) island has 9 counties subdivided into 103 districts and 237 communes. It is very common on this island's counties to be named as the Cardinal point and the island they are located in since some had no specific county names at the time: being the counties of Central, East and West Styroe, which were formerly called simply as their main city's name (like Central Styroe being called Haralstat).

Only one county had changed its name since they were introduced: being Sydostlandby (Ostlandic: South Ostland village) county, originally named Southern Styroe (Syd Styrøe).

Olekslyke
Before 2016, Olekslyke island had only two counties: Mellervik and South Mellerstøy, as it was approved in 1908. However, in March 2015, the city hall of Irksbergen city presented to Ostlandic parliament the project of upgrading Irksenland status as a county. At the time, Irksbergen city was passing through many difficulties and natural disasters: the main highway to access the city was severely damaged due to rockslides of October 2014, water and electricity services had several damages causing blackouts and drought frecuently, and none of them were attended by county's government. On February 20, 2016, Parliament approved the project.