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Norway is a country located in Northern Europe in the northern and western parts of the Scandinavian Peninsula.The majority of the country borders water, including the Skagerrak inlet to the south, the North Sea to the southwest, the North Atlantic Ocean (Norwegian Sea) to the west, and the Barents Sea to the north.
Norway was awarded first place according to the UN's Human Development Index (HDI) for 2013. [246] From the 1900s, improvements in public health occurred as a result of development in several areas such as social and living conditions , changes in disease and medical outbreaks, establishment of the health care system, and emphasis on public ...
Nordic countries except Norway, EU/EFTA, UK, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand 378 076 51 274 6.9 0.9 Europe except EU/EFTA and UK, Africa, Asia, America except USA and Canada, Oceania except Australia and New Zealand, polar regions 499 150 162 535 9.1 3.0 Nordic countries except Norway 69 251 7 320 1.3 0.1
Norway geography-related lists (3 C, 10 P) + Geography of Jan Mayen (3 C, 6 P) Geography of Svalbard (5 C, 22 P) B. Borders of Norway (6 C, 5 P) E. Ecoregions of ...
Norway has a Scandinavian welfare system and the largest capital reserve per capita of any nation. Norway was ranked highest of all countries in human development from 2001 to 2006, and came second in 2007 (to fellow Nordic country Iceland). [b] It also rated the most peaceful country in the world in a 2007 survey by Global Peace Index. [4]
This is a list of NUTS2 statistical regions of Norway by the Human Development Index, as of 2022. [1] Rank Region HDI (2022) [1] Very High Human Development 1
Norway maintains close ties with the European Union and the United States. Norway is a founding member of the United Nations, NATO, the European Free Trade Association, the Council of Europe, the Antarctic Treaty, and the Nordic Council; a member of the European Economic Area, the WTO, and the OECD; and a part of the Schengen Area.
The Department of Sociology and Human Geography (Norwegian: Institutt for sosiologi og samfunnsgeografi) at the University of Oslo is the oldest and largest research institute and educational institution in sociology in Norway.