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1. Finland is named "the land of a thousand lakes", but Norway`s lakes do in fact outnumber Finland`s. Finland has 188,00 lakes and Norway have about 450,00 (almost half a million!)
The Norwegian lakes are also the deepest in Europe - on first place "Horningdalsvatnet" in Nordfjord (514 meters deep) and on second place "Mjøsa" which also is the biggest lake in Norway.
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| Mjøsa-Store Norske Leksikon |
2. The American movie Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back(episode 5) was partly shot in Finse, near the Oslo-Bergen railway, in 1979.
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| Star Wars Crew- NRK Filmpoliti |
3. In Norway you find the world`s longest road tunnel - Lærdal road tunnel - it is 24.5 kilometers long or 15.2 miles and it`s placed on the E16. And it took 5 years to build it (1995-2000)
You will also find the worlds deepest underwater road tunnel- Eikesund road tunnel - it`s 287 meters deep (942 feet) between Volda and Ulstein in western Norway.
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| Lærdal road tunnel-worldbiggest.net |
4. Most people think that Columbus was the first European to discover America, but actually it was a Norwegian viking named Leif Ericson. He came to America in year 1000, and that means he was there 496 years before Columbus.
5. Norway is the country in Europe (Russia excluded) with the longest coastline - 53,199 km.
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| Map of Norway-Wikipedia |
6. In 2011, 37% of the Norwegian population completed postsecondary education, making them the best educated people in Europe!
7. Norway was ranked the best country for the State Of The World`s Mothers 2012 by Save the Children. And Norway has topped the Human Development Index from 9 out of 11 years from 2001 to 2011. The other two years (2007 and 2008) it came second after Iceland.
8. Norway has won more Winter Olympic medals than any other country on Earth, with a grand total of 303 medals (including 107 gold medals) as of 2012, 50 more than the USA. Norway also has the highest number of combined Summer and Winter Olympic medals per capita, with 451 medals for 4.7 million inhabitants, or 95.9 medals per million people.
9. The modern cheese slicer was patented in 1925 by Thor Bjørklund, a Norwegian carpenter. And one of the most popular kinds of cheese in Norway is a brown, caramelised whey cheese known as brunost.
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| Brunost-Klikk.no |
11. Apart from regular beer, you can only buy alcohol from stores called Vinmonopolet. There are only a few in each city and none in the smaller countryside settlements.
12. The Grandiosa frozen pizza is the unofficial national food dish.
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| Grandiosa-Grandiosa.no |
Marilyn Monroe, Paris Hilton, Josh Groban and Iggy Pop.
14. Norwegian prisons are known to be the most luxurious prisons in the world. They have also won a design award.
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| Yes that is a Norwegian prison-Dagbladet.no |
But don´t tell the Swedish!
Hope you learned some new, but perhaps useless, facts about Norway. Tell me what you think in the comment section or tell me some fun facts about your country.
Sources:
-http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/countries/norway.html
-http://www.eupedia.com/norway/trivia.shtml
-http://truenomads.com/2013/04/22-interesting-facts-about-norway/
-http://www.memecenter.com/fun/1935951/10-facts-about-norway
-http://www.tripadvisor.com/Travel-g190455-c117166/Norway:Trivia.And.Fun.Facts.html
Written by Rebekka
I found the facts vary cool and I did not know any of the facts. My favorite fact was about Star Wars. That and I did not think prison looked that nice.
SvarSlettWow, these are really cool. I guess its safe to say that in the US there really arnet that many cool things. We have New York and the Grand Canyon, those are pretty cool. Norway sounds really cool though, I would like to visit sometime!
SvarSlettI don't really like star wars but I think its really cool that part of the movie was shot thereand I think think its really cool that 7 million americans have morweign ancestors
SvarSlettWow, our prisons in the US are not even relatively close to looking as good as your guys prisons. Are those prisons for everybody that commits a crime?
SvarSlettI don`t thing the prison you see in the picture is for every one, but I think that if you`re gonna stay long in prison you get a nicer one than if you`re gonna stay in a short amout of time.
SlettThat is awesome about the prisons, that looks like a condo here in the US of A. That's pretty cool about the cheese slicer lol. Norway is interesting.
SvarSlettThat is amazing the worlds longest tunnel. I've heard about it one the news a long time ago. I think it would be a fun time to drive through the tunnel and see the different lights in the tunnel to keep you awake. If that is actually what the lights on the side of the road while you are driving though the tunnel. What is the mountain or hill that it is cutting through. What kind of cars do you drive? - Blake Evan Courtway of Illinois in the town of henry. I go to henry-senachiwine high school. I'm a senior and I plan on going to Norway sometime this year. Hope I see one of the people that are on this blog. Hope to meet one of you.USA
SvarSlettThe moutain that the tunnel is cutting through is in the north-east of Jotunheimen(it is a big moutain rage in the midle of Norway) and it was buildt so we could drive from Bergen to Oslo and don`t over the moutain so it would go faster, if that made any sense.
SlettIn Norway we drive mostly the same cars that people in other country do, it`s not like we have or own type of car or anything, but very many people drive Tesla and Porche.
It`s really cool that you are going to Norway, hope you enyoj it here.
Are you going to Oslo? If you are maybe you will meet one of us.
I would love to visit the underwater road tunnel. It is very beautiful! I never knew that Marilyn Monroe had Norwegian ancestors!
SvarSlettNeither did I !!
SlettHello, I thought that the info you had posted was very interesting. I learned many new things while I read your post. I would like to some day visit Norway. ~Alyda
SvarSlettThank you. I`m glad too hear that you learned something knew.
SlettI bet you would love Norway if you would visit it.
In America we have 50 states. Our flag has 50 stars to represent the 50 states and 13 stripes to represent the 13 original colonies that were formed when we first gained our independence.
SvarSlettOoo, that is very cool!!
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