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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 was awarded first place according to the UN's Human Development Index (HDI) for 2013. [247] 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 ...
Norway has always had a tradition of building in wood. Indeed, many of today's most interesting new buildings are made of wood, reflecting the strong appeal that this material continues to hold for Norwegian designers and builders. [4] In the early Middle Ages, stave churches were constructed throughout Norway. Many of them remain to this day ...
Very High Human Development 1 Oslo and Akershus: 0.982 – Norway: 0.966: 2 Vestlandet (Hordaland, Sogn og Fjordane, Møre og Romsdal) 0.963 3 Trøndelag (Sør-Trøndelag, Nord-Trøndelag) 0.961 4 Agder and Rogaland (Aust-Agder, Vest-Agder, Rogaland) 0.958 5 Nord-Norge (Nordland, Troms, Finnmark) 0.950 6 Hedmark and Oppland: 0.936
In World War II, Norway proclaimed its neutrality, but was nonetheless occupied for five years by Nazi Germany (1940–45). In 1949, neutrality was abandoned and Norway became a member of NATO. Discovery of oil and gas in adjacent waters in the late 1960s boosted Norway's economy but in referendums held in 1972 and 1994, Norway rejected joining ...
Compared to Deniker, Ripley advocated a simplified racial view and proposed the concept of a single Teutonic race linked to geographic areas where Nordic-like characteristics predominate, and contrasted these areas to the boundaries of two other types, Alpine and Mediterranean, thus reducing the "caucasoid branch of humanity" to three distinct ...
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 municipality of Oslo has a population of 717,710 as of 1 January 2024. [24] The urban area extends far beyond the boundaries of the municipality into the surrounding county of Akershus (municipalities of Asker, Bærum, Lillestrøm, Enebakk, Rælingen, Lørenskog, Nittedal, Gjerdrum, Nordre Follo); being, to a great degree suburbs of Oslo making up approximately 500,000 of the population of ...