> I've got the Norwegian Postcode table, but need a little help with
> the translations. I am assuming that AREA - is like COUNTY, but I've
> got 438 of them?

Norwegian Postcode table, well, by birth I should be an expert on the
subject. In general, I think we've got 19 counties (named fylke), 438
sounds more like the number of municipalities (kommune), some of them
will be towns (by). Actually, each such municipality does have a
fourdigit code (not postcode) where the first two digits reveal which
county it belongs to. Even though that is not a postnumber, it can be
quite useful. Towns, well, I guess there is between 0 and 5 in each
county.

> 1906 towns sounds right - some names are in more than one area ;)
> What does the 6 NO_TYPE descriptions translate to?

WHAT? This doesn't ring a bell at all (well, except that the name of
the place isn't unique in all cases) - what is the name of the fields
and do you have any names (values) as examples? My counting gets up to
between 45 and 50 towns, but a few years ago rules changed and places
were allowed to decide themselves whether they wanted to be called a
town or a village, so the actual number will be somewhat higher.

For postcodes Norway should be a bit simpler than the UK, I remember
the times when every place only had one postcode (excepting Oslo,
which was numbered from 1 to 10). Nowadays, many towns have been
divided into further postcodes, but a fourdigit number is still enough
for us.

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