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Greenland also contains the world's largest national park; it is the largest constituent country by area in the world and is the fourth largest country subdivision in the world, after Sakha Republic in Russia, Australia's state of Western Australia, and Russia's Krasnoyarsk Krai, and the largest in North America.
Erik the Red's Land (Norwegian: Eirik Raudes Land) was the name given by Norwegians to an area on the coast of eastern Greenland occupied by Norway in the early 1930s. It was named after Erik the Red, the founder of the first Norse or Viking settlements in Greenland in the 10th century.
Erik the Red's Land, northeast coast of Greenland and Fridtjof Nansen Land, southeast coast of Greenland, claimed and annexed from 1931 until awarded to Denmark by a court decision in 1933. [12] Inari and Petsamo, now part of Finland and Russia, claimed from Finland from about 1942 to 1945 by the Quisling regime during the Nazi occupation of ...
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The protected areas make up 65% of the archipelago. [132] Svalbard is on Norway's tentative list for nomination as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. [186] The total solar eclipse of 20 March 2015 included only Svalbard and the Faroe Islands in the band of totality. [187]
The first of these new areas came into existence on 1 January 2018, when Nord-Trøndelag and Sør-Trøndelag merged to form Trøndelag. According to most definitions, the counties of Norway are divided into the following regions (these groupings are approximate): Northern Norway (Nord-Norge / Nord-Noreg) Troms; Finnmark; Nordland
The present settlement of Qassiarsuk, approximately 5 km (3.1 mi) southwest from the Narsarsuaq settlement, is now located in its place. The site is located about 96 km (60 mi) from the ocean, at the head of the Tunulliarfik Fjord, and hence sheltered from ocean storms. Erik and his descendants lived there until about the mid-15th century.
Norway is also the world's second-largest exporter of fish (in value, after China). [172] [173] Fish from fish farms and catch constitutes the second largest (behind oil/natural gas) export product measured in value. [174] [175] Norway is the world's largest producer of salmon, followed by Chile. [176]