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  2. Regions of Norway - Wikipedia

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    The region Midt-Norge/Midt-Noreg (Central Norway) is often used as a synonym to Trøndelag, but also includes Møre og Romsdal (according to some definitions only Nordmøre and parts of Romsdal). The southernmost part of Nordland is also sometimes considered to be part of Central Norway. Similarly, Rogaland, or parts of Rogaland, is sometimes ...

  3. Scandinavian Peninsula - Wikipedia

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    The name of the peninsula is derived from the term Scandinavia, the cultural region of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. That cultural name is in turn derived from the name of Scania, the region at the southern extremity of the peninsula which was for centuries a part of Denmark, which is the ancestral home of the Danes, and is now part of Sweden. [2 ...

  4. List of towns and cities in Norway - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of towns and cities in Norway. The Norwegian language word by means a town or city–there is no distinction between the two words as there is in English. Historically, the designation of town/city was granted by the king, but since 1996 that authority was given to the local municipal councils for each municipality in Norway. In ...

  5. Scandinavia - Wikipedia

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    Scandinavia is a subregion of Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural, and linguistic ties between its constituent peoples. Scandinavia most commonly refers to Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. It can sometimes also refer to the Scandinavian Peninsula (which excludes Denmark but includes a part of northern Finland).

  6. Northern Norway - Wikipedia

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    The most windy location in continental Norway (apart from mountain summits) is Fruholmen Lighthouse (Fruholmen fyr) in Måsøy Municipality not far from the North Cape. The most windy city in Northern Norway is Bodø with on average 153 days/year with strong breeze or more and 24 days with gale-force winds, while Vardø , also lacking shelter ...

  7. Subdivisions of the Nordic countries - Wikipedia

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    Norway proper 15 counties (Norwegian: ... 3 unintegrated overseas dependencies; Sweden. Sweden [7] 21 counties (Swedish: län) 290 municipalities (Swedish: kommuner)

  8. Norway - Wikipedia

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    Norway (Bokmål: Norge, Nynorsk: Noreg), officially the Kingdom of Norway, [a] is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula, with a population of 5.5 million as of 2024. [19] The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of Norway.

  9. Lister Region - Wikipedia

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    Lister Region (Norwegian: Listerregionen) is a region in Southern Norway. It consist of the municipalities Farsund , Flekkefjord , Hægebostad , Kvinesdal , Lyngdal , and Sirdal . [ 1 ] The region borders to Kristiansand Region in the east, Setesdal to the north, and Rogaland County to the west.