Municipalities of the Faroe Islands

The Faroe Islands are administratively divided in 29 municipalities (kommunur), with about 120 cities and villages.

In the coming years the number of Faroese municipalities is expected to drop to somewhere between 7 and 15, as there is currently a rationale towards municipal amalgamation and a decentralization of public services.

In 1998 it was suggested that no municipality should have fewer than 2,000 inhabitants, but whether this will be true is a political question.

The Faroese government has furthermore decided not to conduct forced, top-down amalgamation, but to leave the process to the free will of the municipalities.

^ Tórshavn is both the capital of the Streymoy region and its own region, the latter being identical with Tórshavn municipality, but not including the area of the former Kollafjarðar kommuna.