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[1] The Norwegian krone is also informally accepted in many shops in Sweden and Finland that are close to the Norwegian border, and also in some shops in the Danish ferry ports of Hirtshals and Frederikshavn. Norwegians spent 14.1 billion NOK on border shopping in 2015 compared to 10.5 billion NOK spent in 2010. Border shopping is a fairly ...
This template renders a Norwegian currency value (NOK) with an ISO 4217 identifier linked to the Norwegian krone article. {{NOK|123.45}} produces 123.45 ...
As in the case of the Danes, the Norwegians' earliest standards of measure can be derived from their ship burials.The 60-Norwegian-feet-long Kvalsund ship (18.8 m; 61.8 ft) was built ca. 700 AD and differs from the Danish boats less than it does from the Oseberg, Gokstad and Tune ships which all date from ca. 800 AD.
During World War I and World War II and their aftermaths of 1917–1925 and 1940–1950, there was a shortage of change, so 1 krone and 2 kroner notes were printed as "coin notes". The World War I edition was rendered invalid in 1926, whereas the World War II edition technically remained legal tender until 1999.
Most Norwegians don’t mind spending 2 minutes sending an sms to bid for an apartment 300.000 NOK (about 35.000 USD) over the tagged price, but they will drive several hundred kilometers in a day ...
The local currencies of Bermuda and the Bahamas can be freely exchanged at a 1:1 ratio for USD. Argentina used a fixed 1:1 exchange rate between the Argentine peso and the U.S. dollar from 1991 until 2002. The currencies of Barbados and Belize are similarly convertible at an approximate 2:1 ratio. The Netherlands Antillean guilder (and its ...
Financial amounts are in millions of Norwegian kroner (1 US dollar = 8.85 kroner as of 12/02/2022 [1]). The information provided for each company includes subsidiaries. Also on the list are subsidiaries of foreign companies. The list is based on the audited accounts for 2006.
The local time continued to live on for quite some time, especially in rural communities, where both the local and standard time were in use (the latter being referred to as railway time). [1] In Norway, summer time was observed in 1916, 1943–45, and 1959–65. The arrangement 1959-65 was controversial, and was discontinued 1965.