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Western Norway (Bokmål: Vestlandet, Vest-Norge; Nynorsk: Vestlandet, Vest-Noreg) is the region along the Atlantic coast of southern Norway. It consists of the counties Rogaland, Vestland, and Møre og Romsdal. The region has no official or political-administrative function. The region has a population of approximately 1.4 million people.
The World Heritage Site consists of two areas 120 km apart, located in south-west Norway, north-west of the city of Bergen, and part of the fjord landscape of western Norway extending over 500 km between Stavanger in the south and Åndalsnes in the north.
Geological map of Fennoscandia. The geology of Norway encompasses the history of Earth that can be interpreted by rock types found in Norway, and the associated sedimentological history of soils and rock types. The Norwegian mountains were formed around 400 million years ago (Ma) during the Caledonian orogeny.
A geopolitical map of Norway, exhibiting its 19 first-order subnational divisions (fylker or "counties") with Svalbard and Jan Mayen. Each of the country's regions is uniquely coloured. Norway is commonly divided into five major geographical regions (landsdeler). These regions are purely geographical and cultural, and have no administrative ...
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.
The Scandinavian coastal conifer forest is a terrestrial ecoregion as defined by WWF [1] and National Geographic. [2] The broad definition is based on climatic parameters and includes a long area along the western Norwegian coast from Lindesnes Municipality and north to approximately Senja Municipality (further north summers are too cool for pine in coastal areas); in essence areas along the ...
' the western fjord '; sometimes shortened to Vestfjord in English) is a 155-kilometre (96 mi) long fjord or oceanic sea in Nordland county, Norway. [2] [3] The name literally means "the west fjord", although it is called a fjord, it could best be described as a firth or an open bight of sea.
Ranfjorden [1] [2] is a fjord in the Helgeland district of Nordland county, Norway. The largest part of the fjord is in Rana Municipality, but the fjord also passes through the municipalities of Hemnes, Vefsn, Leirfjord, Nesna, and Dønna. The Ranelva river meets the Ranfjord in at the town of Mo i Rana at the innermost part of the fjord.
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