Norway
Kingdom of Norway
Kongeriket Norge
CAPITAL: Oslo
FLAG: The national flag has a red field on which appears a blue cross outlined in white.
ANTHEM: Ja, vi elsker dette landet (Yes, We Love This C...
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Norway
Situated between 57 and 71 degrees North, at the same latitudes as Alaska, Norway is Europe's northernmost country. With a 2,650-kilometer (1,656-mile) coastline, bordering the North Sea...
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Area: 385,199 sq km (148,726 sq mi), including the overseas Arctic territories of Svalbard (61,020 sq km [23,560 sq mi]) and Jan Mayen (377 sq km [145 sq mi])Population (2006 est.): 4,659,000Capita...
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(Corrects paragraph 7 to show additional infantry unit will be
sent to Maimana, not to Mazar-i-Sharif) OSLO, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Norway will reinforce its military
presence in Afghanistan in 2008 w...
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Norway plans to buy greenhouse gas quotas for public officials when they fly aboard to help curb global warming, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said.In his annual News Year's Day speech Monday eve...
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The founder of the Iraqi extremist group Ansar al-Islam appealed Tuesday to Norway's Supreme Court to overturn an order to expel him from the Scandanavian country as a threat to national security.T...
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OSLO, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Norway's embassy and other
buildings in the Afghan capital Kabul have been threatened with
attack, Norwegian officials said on Tuesday. Word of the threat came just over a...
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Norwegian and British fighters scrambled Thursday to intercept eight Russian bombers that neared the Nordic country's territory in the latest show of air power by the Kremlin, defense officials sai...
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