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NORWAY

 

 

 

Norway (Kongeriket Norge) is a constitutional monarchy, it's not part of the European Union, it occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, bordering the North Sea in southwest and the Skagerrak inlet to the south, the North Atlantic Ocean (Norwegian Sea) in the west and the Barents Sea to the northeast, Norway bordered by Sweden to the east, Finland in the northeast, and Russia in the far northeast. The Kingdom of Norway also includes the Arctic island territories of Svalbard and Jan Mayen. Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic Ocean and Peter I Island and Queen Maud Land in Antarctica are also external dependencies. Norway is divided into nineteen first-level administrative regions called " fylker", Oslo is the state capital, main cities are also: Bergen, Kristiansand, Alesund, Trondheim, Stavanger, Narvik, e Tromsø.

Norway has one of the longest and most rugged coastlines in the world, much of the country is dominated by mountainous or high terrain, with a great variety of natural features caused by prehistoric glaciers. The most noticeable of these are the fjords: Deep grooves cut into the land flooded by the sea following the end of the Ice Age, the longest is Sognefjorden.  In the south-west side part of the country are reached the highest altitudes (2000-2500 metres); between the highest tops, are the Glittertind (2,470 m), Snøhetta (2,286 m), Rondane (2,183 m). 

 

Norway also contains many glaciers and waterfalls. Today the glaciers cover a surface of approximately 5.000 sqkm, of which beyond 800 sqkm are made by the Jostedalsbreen, the biggest glacier of continental Europe. The coasts are faced from several islands grouped in the two arcipelagoes of the Lofoten and the Vesterålen.

 

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Area: 323,878 sqkm

Population: 4,600,000. Mainly Norwegians, small minorities in the north are Sami, Finnish and Kven.

State Capital: Oslo

Language: The Norwegian language has two official written forms, Bokmål and Nynorsk. The main foreign languages in Norway are English, German, Swedish, Danish and French.

Religion: Lutheran about 83 % (State Religion). Other Christian denominations total about 4.5% of the population. Among non-Christian religions, Islam is the largest, representing about 1.5% of the population.

Currency: Kroner (NOK).

Time: The time zone for Norway is Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) UTC+1 hour (Summer Daylight saving time: UTC +2).

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Place From To
North Cape 13 May 29 July
Hammerfest 16 May 26 July
Vardø 17 May 25 July
Tromsø 20 May 22 July
Harstad 24 May 18 July
Svolvær 28 May 14 July
Bodø 3 June 8 July

 

 

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