I chose Norway for my Europe Country to reasearch, mostly because I didnt know much about it and wanted to learn more. I found a lot of interesting facts, places, and vaction spots during my reasearch which made the reasearch prosess a little easier. Norway's capital city and largest city is Oslo which is home to about 605,000 people. It is located in the southeastern part of the country. Unlike the United States, Norway does have an offical language which is Norweigen. Norway is home to about 5 killion people. Norway is one a few countries that still has king, his name is King Harald V, he is leader of the government. Norway government is deomocray with a consitutional monarchy. Norway econmic system is a mixed econmy, but mostly capitalism. A very intresting fact I found was that outside of the middle eastern countries Norway has the largest supply of oil and natural gas per capita in the world.
Norway has enjoyed a healthy realionship with the United States, since becoming an indepent country in 1905. Norway gained their independence from Sweden on June 7, 1905. Norway was a co-founder of allienses like NATO and the UN, they are still members today. Norway's has usually been nuetral in all major war including WWI and WWII.
Norway is famous for some of the most beautiful land features on planet Earth, but they are also famous for being a frequent stop for Viking in 1300 and 1400's. But back to the land feature Norway is home to some of the most beautiful mountains and for Fjord on the coastline. Norway is also known for their rugged coastline and thousands of small islands. Norway is in the group of Scandinavian Countries in northern Europe. Norway's land borders include Finland and Sweden. Norway is not a huge country only 148,747 sq miles in size. The land of Norway is made up of mostly granite and gienineiss rock. Norway's Climate varies from a moderate climate to a tundra climate, and is home to over 16,000 species of life.
Vactions spots in Norway, and there alot of them. National Geographic listed Norway's Fjords as the top tourist attrachtion in the world. also famous are Norway's majestic mountains and foggy forests. Also famous for land of the midnight sun. The top five cities to vistit in Norway are: 1. Oslo 2. Bergen 3. Faberg 4. stavanger 5.livestorm. These are some of the great tourist attrachtions in Norway.
Sources: www.wikipedia.org/wiki/norway and www.realtravel.com/d-1163-norway
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