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. Each subject is subdivided into three administrative levels: 16 counties, 65 districts and 152 communes.

Islands
Ostland is composed of 7 administrative subjects, which consists in 5 islands and 2 archipelagos, both of them being territories with special status, the Archipelago of Arrikson and Rigoberto, and the Special Territory of the Saltnings. Islands, de-facto, does not represent administrative divisions. However, each one of these divisions has their own unicameral regional legislatures, known as Landhoss.

Counties
Ostlandic National State Constitution (in Ostlandic: Ostlandisk Natijonal Statkonstitution) establishes that counties are "the first level of administrative and governmental division of land, and, or, urban for all the territories of the Republic".

Counties (Oslandic: countk, plural. countker) were first introduced in 1820 and are the first level. It is the equivalent of historical grafskavs, 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 based on historical or demographic criteria, being the county of Nordostat the first to be established, on the same day reforms were approved.

As of 2016, Ostland is composed of 15 counties, two of them being cities with autonomous status of county.

Special Cities
There are two cities with an special political status: Nordøstat and Timsgroen, which their Metropolitan areas constitutes their own county. They are informally known as City - Counties (Ostlandic: Byen-Countker). Timsgroen 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 capital city's name.

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.