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  2. List of possessions of Norway - Wikipedia

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    The actual time of cession of the islands is somewhat disputed. Some claim it took place with the Union of Denmark and Norway in 1536/37, as the possessions of the Norwegian crown were claimed by the Oldenburg king. Nevertheless, they were still referred to as "dependencies of Norway" in later official documents.

  3. Dependencies of Norway - Wikipedia

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    Norway's main research station, Troll, in Queen Maud Land. Queen Maud Land is a 2.7 million km 2 (1.7 million sq mi) sector of Antarctica. [23] The territory lies between 20° west and 45° east, between the British Antarctic Territory to the west and the Australian Antarctic Territory to the east.

  4. Nordic countries - Wikipedia

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    The Nordic countries (also known as the Nordics or Norden; lit. ' the North ') [2] are a geographical and cultural region in Northern Europe and the North Atlantic.It includes the sovereign states of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway [a] and Sweden; the autonomous territories of the Faroe Islands and Greenland; and the autonomous region of Åland.

  5. Administrative divisions of Norway - Wikipedia

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    Norway has three dependent territories (Norwegian: biland), all uninhabited and located in the Southern Hemisphere. Bouvet Island is a Subantarctic island in the South Atlantic Ocean. [4] Queen Maud Land is a sector of Antarctica which spans between 20° west and 45° east. [5]

  6. Lists of sovereign states and dependent territories - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of lists of countries and territories by various criteria. A country or territory is a geographical area, either in the sense of nation (a cultural entity) or state (a political entity).

  7. Regions of Norway - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. List of countries and dependencies by area - Wikipedia

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    Dymaxion map of the world with the 30 largest countries and territories by area. This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies, ranked by total area, including land and water. This list includes entries that are not limited to those in the ISO 3166-1 standard, which covers sovereign states and dependent territories.

  9. List of countries and territories by the United Nations ...

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    This is a list of countries and territories by the United Nations geoscheme, including 193 UN member states, two UN observer states (the Holy See [note 1] and the State of Palestine), two states in free association with New Zealand (the Cook Islands and Niue), and 49 non-sovereign dependencies or territories, as well as Western Sahara (a disputed territory whose sovereignty is contested) and ...