New County In Norway
I just ran across a Wikipedia article saying that Oppland fylke and Hedmark fylke in Norway have merged as of January 2020 into the new Innlandet fylke. It wasn't a total merge though as a few cities/towns were transferred to other counties at the same time.
I do not know if any other counties were changed.
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There were several merges and changes in the counties of Norway on 1 January 2020. A couple were very controversial and the counties involved are working on reversing them. You can see all the changes in this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counties_of_Norway. The two that have caused the most furor were the creation of Troms og Finnmark and Viken. I haven't heard of any grumbling about Innlandet.
Innlandet was added to the Places database in January 2020. You can see information about it here: https://www.familysearch.org/research/places/?searchTypeaheadInputText=10936973&text=10936973&focusedId=10936973
A few places have been place under its jurisdiction but adding this as a new historical time period for all the places currently under Oppland and Hedmark will take some time. It's probably not a high priority since it would only be used for events in the past two years.
If there are specific places in that county you would like this new historical period added to, you could probably request that.
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