Western Norway, the Glossary
Western Norway (Vestlandet, Vest-Norge; Vest-Noreg) is the region along the Atlantic coast of southern Norway.[1]
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- Regions of Norway
A. W. Andrews
Arthur Westlake Andrews (12 December 1868 – 22 November 1959) was a British geographer, poet, rock-climber, mountaineer and amateur tennis and badminton player.
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Aalborg
Aalborg or Ålborg is Denmark's fourth largest urban settlement (behind Copenhagen, Aarhus, and Odense) with a population of 119,862 (1 July 2022) in the town proper and an urban population of 143,598 (1 July 2022).
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Aalesund University College
Aalesund University College (Norwegian: Høgskolen i Ålesund) was a medium-sized institution of higher education in Norway with 2249 students and 224 employees.
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Adolph Tidemand
Adolph Tidemand (14 August 18148 August 1876) was a noted Norwegian romantic nationalism painter.
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Agder
Agder is a county and traditional region in the southern part of Norway and is coextensive with the Southern Norway region.
Age of Enlightenment
The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was the intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the 17th and the 18th centuries.
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Agriculture
Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, fisheries, and forestry for food and non-food products.
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Alexander Dale Oen
Alexander Dale Oen (21 May 198530 April 2012) was a Norwegian swimmer.
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Alexander Kielland
Alexander Lange Kielland (18 February 1849 – 6 April 1906) was a Norwegian realistic writer of the 19th century.
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Amalie Skram
Amalie Skram (22 August 1846 – 15 March 1905) was a Norwegian author and feminist who gave voice to a woman's point of view with her naturalist writing.
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Arctic
The Arctic is a polar region located at the northernmost part of Earth.
Arctic fox
The Arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus), also known as the white fox, polar fox, or snow fox, is a small species of fox native to the Arctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere and common throughout the Arctic tundra biome.
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Arne Garborg
Arne Garborg (born Aadne Eivindsson Garborg) (25 January 1851 – 14 January 1924) was a Norwegian writer.
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Arnulf Øverland
Ole Peter Arnulf Øverland (27 April 1889 – 25 March 1968) was a Norwegian poet and artist.
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Art Nouveau
Art Nouveau is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts.
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Askøy
Askøy is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway.
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.
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Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.
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Avinor
Avinor AS is a state-owned limited company that operates most of the civil airports in Norway.
Åkrehamn
or Åkrahamn (commonly known as simply Åkra) is a small town in Karmøy municipality in Rogaland county, Norway.
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Ålesund
Ålesund, sometimes spelled Aalesund in English, is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal County, Norway.
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Åndalsnes
is a town in Rauma Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway.
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Årdal
Årdal is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway.
Baháʼí Faith
The Baháʼí Faith is a religion founded in the 19th century that teaches the essential worth of all religions and the unity of all people.
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Baroque
The Baroque is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from the early 17th century until the 1750s.
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Battle of Stamford Bridge
The Battle of Stamford Bridge (Gefeoht æt Stanfordbrycge) took place at the village of Stamford Bridge, East Riding of Yorkshire, in England, on 25 September 1066, between an English army under King Harold Godwinson and an invading Norwegian force led by King Harald Hardrada and the English king's brother Tostig Godwinson.
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Bømlo
Bømlo is a municipality in the southwestern part of Vestland county, Norway.
Bedrock
In geology, bedrock is solid rock that lies under loose material (regolith) within the crust of Earth or another terrestrial planet.
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Belt buckle
A belt buckle is a buckle, a clasp for fastening two ends, such as of straps or a belt, in which a device attached to one of the ends is fitted or coupled to the other.
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Bergen
Bergen, historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway.
Bergen Academy of Art and Design
Bergen Academy of Art and Design (Kunst- og designhøgskolen i Bergen) or KHiB was one of two independent and accredited scientific institutions of higher learning in the visual arts and design in Norway (The other is Oslo National Academy of the Arts).
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Bergen Light Rail
Bergen Light Rail (Bybanen) is a light rail system in Bergen, Norway.
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Bergen School of Architecture
Bergen School of Architecture or BAS (Bergen Arkitekt Skole) is a private and academically independent school located in Bergen, Norway.
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BI Norwegian Business School
BI Norwegian Business School is a private university college in Norway.
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Biathlon
The biathlon is a winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting.
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Bible Belt
The term Bible Belt refers to a region of the Southern United States and the Midwestern state of Missouri (which also has significant Southern influence), where Christian Protestanism exerts a strong social and cultural influence.
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Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson (8 December 1832 – 26 April 1910) was a Norwegian writer who received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature "as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has always been distinguished by both the freshness of its inspiration and the rare purity of its spirit".
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Bjerkreim
Bjerkreim is a municipality in Rogaland county, Norway.
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Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music.
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Black Sea
The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia.
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Bocuse d'Or
The Bocuse d'Or (the Concours mondial de la cuisine, World Cooking Contest) is a biennial world chef championship.
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Bokmål
Bokmål is one of the official written standards for the Norwegian language, alongside Nynorsk.
Boknafjord
Boknafjord or Boknafjorden (Bokna Fjord) is a fjord located in Rogaland county, Norway.
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British Isles
The British Isles are a group of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-western coast of continental Europe, consisting of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man, the Inner and Outer Hebrides, the Northern Isles (Orkney and Shetland), and over six thousand smaller islands.
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Bryggen
Bryggen (the dock), also known as Tyskebryggen (the German dock), is a series of Hanseatic heritage commercial buildings lining up the eastern side of the Vågen harbour in the city of Bergen, Norway.
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Bryne
Bryne is a town in Time municipality in Rogaland county, Norway.
Buddhism
Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.
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Buekorps
Buekorps (literally "Bow Corps" or "Archery Brigade") are traditional marching neighbourhood youth organizations in Bergen, Norway.
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Business administration
Business administration is the administration of a commercial enterprise.
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Business school
A business school is a higher education institution or professional school that teaches courses leading to degrees in business administration or management.
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Byzantine Empire
The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centered in Constantinople during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
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Canada
Canada is a country in North America.
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global and is one of the company's three flagship subsidiaries, along with namesake Paramount Pictures and MTV.
Cecilia Brækhus
Cecilia Carmen Linda Brækhus (born 28 September, 1981) is a Norwegian professional boxer and former kickboxer.
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Celts
The Celts (see pronunciation for different usages) or Celtic peoples were a collection of Indo-European peoples.
Centre Party (Norway)
The Centre Party (Senterpartiet, Sp; Guovddášbellodat), formerly the Farmer's Party (Bondepartiet, Bp), is an agrarian political party in Norway.
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Charismatic movement
The charismatic movement in Christianity is a movement within established or mainstream Christian denominations to adopt beliefs and practices of Charismatic Christianity, with an emphasis on baptism with the Holy Spirit, and the use of spiritual gifts (charismata).
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Christian Democratic Party (Norway)
The Christian Democratic Party (Kristelig Folkeparti, Kristeleg Folkeparti,, KrF; Risttalaš Álbmotbellodat) is a Christian-democratic political party in Norway founded in 1933.
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Christian Grindheim
Christian Grindheim (born 17 July 1983) is a Norwegian retired professional footballer who last played as a midfielder for Eliteserien club FK Haugesund.
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Christian Michelsen
Peter Christian Hersleb Kjerschow Michelsen (15 March 1857– 29 June 1925), better known as Christian Michelsen, was a Norwegian shipping magnate and statesman.
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Christianization of Scandinavia
The Christianization of Scandinavia, as well as other Nordic countries and the Baltic countries, took place between the 8th and the 12th centuries.
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Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus (between 25 August and 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506) was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and colonization of the Americas.
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Church of Norway
The Church of Norway (Den norske kirke, Den norske kyrkja, Norgga girku, Nöörjen gærhkoe) is an evangelical Lutheran denomination of Protestant Christianity and by far the largest Christian church in Norway.
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Climate
Climate is the long-term weather pattern in a region, typically averaged over 30 years.
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Climate of Norway
The climate of Norway is more temperate than could be expected for such high latitudes.
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Climatology
Climatology (from Greek κλίμα, klima, "slope"; and -λογία, -logia) or climate science is the scientific study of Earth's climate, typically defined as weather conditions averaged over a period of at least 30 years.
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Clown
A clown is a person who performs physical comedy and arts in an open-ended fashion, typically while wearing distinct makeup or costuming and reversing folkway-norms.
Cod
Cod (cod) is the common name for the demersal fish genus Gadus, belonging to the family Gadidae.
Conglomerate (geology)
Conglomerate is a clastic sedimentary rock that is composed of a substantial fraction of rounded to subangular gravel-size clasts.
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Conservative Party (Norway)
The Conservative Party or The Right (Høyre, Høgre,, H; Olgešbellodat) is a liberal-conservative political party in Norway.
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Continental crust
Continental crust is the layer of igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks that forms the geological continents and the areas of shallow seabed close to their shores, known as continental shelves.
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Copenhagen
Copenhagen (København) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of 1.4 million in the urban area.
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Couloir
A couloir ("passage" or "corridor") is a narrow gully with a steep gradient in a mountainous terrain.
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Counties of Norway
There are 15 counties in Norway. The 15 counties are administrative regions that are the first-level administrative divisions of Norway.
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County governor (Norway)
The county governor (statsforvalteren; statsforvaltaren, lit. state administrator in English) is a Norwegian government agency that represents the central government administration in every county in Norway.
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Croatia
Croatia (Hrvatska), officially the Republic of Croatia (Republika Hrvatska), is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe.
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Cruiseferry
A cruiseferry is a ship that combines the features of a cruise ship and a Ro-Pax ferry.
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Cumbria
Cumbria is a ceremonial county in North West England.
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Dalane
Dalane is a traditional district in the southwestern part of Norway, consisting of the municipalities of Lund, Sokndal, Eigersund, and Bjerkreim.
Dance music
Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing.
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Danish language
Danish (dansk, dansk sprog) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family spoken by about six million people, principally in and around Denmark.
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DAT (airline)
DAT A/S, formerly named Danish Air Transport, is a Danish airline headquartered in Vamdrup, Kolding Municipality, operating scheduled and chartered passenger and cargo flights mainly from airports in Denmark.
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De Havilland Canada Dash 8
The De Havilland Canada DHC-8, commonly known as the Dash 8, is a series of turboprop-powered regional airliners, introduced by de Havilland Canada (DHC) in 1984.
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Deglaciation
Deglaciation is the transition from full glacial conditions during ice ages, to warm interglacials, characterized by global warming and sea level rise due to change in continental ice volume.
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Denmark–Norway
Denmark–Norway (Danish and Norwegian: Danmark–Norge) is a term for the 16th-to-19th-century multi-national and multi-lingual real unionFeldbæk 1998:11 consisting of the Kingdom of Denmark, the Kingdom of Norway (including the then Norwegian overseas possessions: the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, and other possessions), the Duchy of Schleswig, and the Duchy of Holstein.
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Developing country
A developing country is a sovereign state with a less developed industrial base and a lower Human Development Index (HDI) relative to other countries.
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Digitalis
Digitalis is a genus of about 20 species of herbaceous perennial plants, shrubs, and biennials, commonly called foxgloves.
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Diocese of Bjørgvin
The Diocese of Bjørgvin (Bjørgvin bispedømme) is one of the 11 dioceses that make up the Church of Norway.
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Districts of Norway
The country of Norway is historically divided into a number of districts.
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Doggerland
Doggerland was an area of land in Northern Europe, now submerged beneath the southern North Sea.
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Dublin
Dublin is the capital of the Republic of Ireland and also the largest city by size on the island of Ireland.
Dutch people
The Dutch (Dutch) are an ethnic group native to the Netherlands.
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Eastern Norway
Eastern Norway (Østlandet, Austlandet) is the geographical region of the south-eastern part of Norway. Western Norway and Eastern Norway are regions of Norway.
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Eastern states of Australia
The eastern states of Australia are the states adjoining the east continental coastline of Australia.
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Edvard Grieg
Edvard Hagerup Grieg (15 June 18434 September 1907) was a Norwegian composer and pianist.
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Egersund
Egersund is a town in Eigersund municipality in Rogaland county, Norway.
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Eirik Bakke
Eirik Bakke (born 13 September 1977) is a Norwegian football coach and a former player.
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Eirik Kvalfoss
Eirik Kvalfoss (born 25 December 1959) is a Norwegian retired biathlete.
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Ekofisk oil field
Ekofisk is an oil field in block 2/4 of the Norwegian sector of the North Sea about southwest of Stavanger.
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Elisabeth Andreassen
Elisabeth Gunilla Andreassen (born 28 March 1958), also known simply as Bettan, is a Norwegian-Swedish singer who has finished both first and second in the Eurovision Song Contest.
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Elk
The elk (elk or elks; Cervus canadensis), or wapiti, is the second largest species within the deer family, Cervidae, and one of the largest terrestrial mammals in its native range of North America and Central and East Asia.
Eric Sevareid
Arnold Eric Sevareid (November 26, 1912 – July 9, 1992) was an American author and CBS news journalist from 1939 to 1977.
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Erica (plant)
Erica is a genus of roughly 857 species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae.
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Eurasian beaver
The Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber) or European beaver is a species of beaver widespread across Eurasia, with a rapidly increasing population of at least 1.5 million in 2020.
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Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
European route E16
European route E16 is the designation of a main west-east road through Northern Ireland, Scotland, Norway and Sweden, from Derry to Gävle, via Belfast, Glasgow, Edinburgh, previously by ferry to Bergen, Voss, through the Gudvanga Tunnel and the Lærdal Tunnel (the world's longest road tunnel), Lærdal, over Filefjell to Fagernes, Hønefoss, Gardermoen and Kongsvinger.
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European route E39
European route E39 is the designation of a north–south road in Norway and Denmark from Klett, just south of Trondheim, to Aalborg via Bergen, Stavanger and Kristiansand.
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Evangelical Lutheran Free Church of Norway
The Evangelical Lutheran Free Church, or the Free Church as it is commonly known (Den Evangelisk Lutherske Frikirke, shortened Frikirken), is a nationwide Lutheran church in Norway, consisting of 83 congregations and 21,817 baptised members.
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Faroe Islanders
Faroese people or Faroe Islanders (føroyingar; færinger) are an ethnic group native to the Faroe Islands.
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Faroe Islands
The Faroe or Faeroe Islands, or simply the Faroes (Føroyar,; Færøerne), are an archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean and an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.
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Faroese language
Faroese is a North Germanic language spoken as a first language by about 69,000 Faroe Islanders, of which 21,000 reside mainly in Denmark and elsewhere.
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Fårikål
Fårikål is a traditional Norwegian dish and the country's national dish.
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Førde
Førde is a former municipality in the county of Sogn og Fjordane, Norway.
Fedje
Fedje is an island municipality in the Nordhordland region of Vestland county, Norway.
Financial Times
The Financial Times (FT) is a British daily newspaper printed in broadsheet and also published digitally that focuses on business and economic current affairs.
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Finn Øglænd
Finn Øglænd (born 7 October 1957 in Stavanger) is a Norwegian author, poet, translator and literature critic.
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Finn E. Kydland
Finn Erling Kydland (born 1 December 1943) is a Norwegian economist known for his contributions to business cycle theory.
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Finnøy
Finnøy is a former municipality in Rogaland county, Norway.
Fitjar
Fitjar is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway.
Fjord
In physical geography, a fjord or fiord is a long, narrow sea inlet with steep sides or cliffs, created by a glacier.
Fjord horse
The Fjord or Norwegian Fjord Horse (fjordhest) is a relatively small but very strong horse breed from the mountainous regions of western Norway.
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Fløibanen
The Fløibanen is a funicular railway in the Norwegian city of Bergen.
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Florø
is a town and the administrative centre of the municipality of Kinn which is in Vestland county, Norway.
Folgefonna
Folgefonna is a collective term for three plateau glaciers in the Hardanger region of Vestland county, Norway.
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Forsand
Forsand is a former municipality in Rogaland county, Norway.
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Fosnavåg
is a town in the municipality of Herøy in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway.
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Fræna
Fræna is a former municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway.
Friesland
Friesland (official Fryslân), historically and traditionally known as Frisia, named after the Frisians, is a province of the Netherlands located in the country's northern part.
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Funding of science
Research funding is a term generally covering any funding for scientific research, in the areas of natural science, technology, and social science.
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Game (hunting)
Game or quarry is any wild animal hunted for animal products (primarily meat), for recreation ("sporting"), or for trophies.
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Gassco
Gassco is a Norwegian state owned company that operates of natural gas pipes transporting annually of 100 billion cubic meter (bcm) of natural gas from the Norwegian continental shelf to Continental Europe and Great Britain.
Geir Skeie
Geir Skeie (born July 2, 1980, Fitjar) is a Norwegian chef and restaurateur, winner of the 2008 Bocuse d'Or Europe,Aardal Hagen, Guro, Dagens Næringsliv (July 2, 2008).
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Geografiska Annaler
Geografiska Annaler is a scientific journal published by the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Geomorphology (journal)
Geomorphology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal about geomorphology.
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Gerhard Armauer Hansen
Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen (29 July 1841 – 12 February 1912) was a Norwegian physician, remembered for his identification of the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae in 1873 as the causative agent of leprosy.
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Germans
Germans are the natives or inhabitants of Germany, or sometimes more broadly any people who are of German descent or native speakers of the German language.
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Giske
Giske is an island municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway.
Gjesdal
Gjesdal is a municipality in Rogaland county, Norway.
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Glacier
A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving downhill under its own weight.
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Global and Planetary Change
Global and Planetary Change is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research into the earth sciences, particularly pertaining to changes in aspects thereof such as sea level and the chemical composition of the atmosphere.
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Gravel
Gravel is a loose aggregation of rock fragments.
Greenland
Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat,; Grønland) is a North American island autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.
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Gross domestic product
Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the market value of all the final goods and services produced and rendered in a specific time period by a country or countries.
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Gudbrandsdalen
Gudbrandsdalen (Gudbrand Valley) is a valley and traditional district in the Norwegian county of Innlandet (formerly Oppland).
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Gulating
Gulating (Gulaþing) was one of the first Norwegian legislative assemblies, or things, and also the name of a present-day law court of western Norway.
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Gulf Stream
The Gulf Stream is a warm and swift Atlantic ocean current that originates in the Gulf of Mexico and flows through the Straits of Florida and up the eastern coastline of the United States, then veers east near 36°N latitude (North Carolina) and moves toward Northwest Europe as the North Atlantic Current.
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Hallingdal
Hallingdal (Halling Valley) is a valley as well as a traditional district located in the traditional and electoral district Buskerud county in Norway.
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Hanne Krogh
Hanne Krogh (born 24 January 1956) is a Norwegian singer and actress from Haugesund and Oslo.
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Hans Gude
Hans Fredrik Gude (March 13, 1825August 17, 1903) was a Norwegian romanticist painter and is considered along with Johan Christian Dahl to be one of Norway's foremost landscape painters.
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Harald Sverdrup (oceanographer)
Harald Ulrik Sverdrup (15 November 1888 – 21 August 1957) was a Norwegian oceanographer and meteorologist.
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Harald Thune
Harald Torfinn Thune (born 12 May 1952) is a Norwegian civil servant.
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Hardanger
Hardanger is a traditional district in the western part of Norway, dominated by the Hardangerfjord and its inner branches of the Sørfjorden and the Eid Fjord.
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Hardanger fiddle
A Hardanger fiddle (hardingfele) is a traditional stringed instrument considered to be the national instrument of Norway.
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Hardangerfjord
The Hardangerfjord (Hardanger Fjord) is the fifth longest fjord in the world, and the second longest fjord in Norway.
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Hardangerjøkulen
Hardangerjøkulen (Hardanger Glacier) is the sixth largest glacier in mainland Norway.
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Hardangervidda
Hardangervidda (Hardanger Plateau) is a mountain plateau (Norwegian: vidde) in central southern Norway, covering parts of Vestland, Telemark, and Buskerud counties.
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Hare
Hares and jackrabbits are mammals belonging to the genus Lepus.
Haugaland
Haugaland or Haugalandet is a traditional district situated on the western coast of Norway.
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Haugesund
Haugesund is a municipality and town on the North Sea in Rogaland county, Norway.
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Hå
Hå is a municipality in Rogaland county, Norway.
Hearing
Hearing, or auditory perception, is the ability to perceive sounds through an organ, such as an ear, by detecting vibrations as periodic changes in the pressure of a surrounding medium.
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Hebrides
The Hebrides (Innse Gall,; Southern isles) are an archipelago off the west coast of the Scottish mainland.
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Herman Friele
Herman Friele (born 21 August 1943) is a Norwegian businessman and politician for the Conservative Party.
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High-speed craft
A high-speed craft (HSC) is a high-speed water vessel for civilian use, also called a fastcraft or fast ferry.
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Hjelmeland
is a municipality in Rogaland county, Norway.
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Holly
Ilex or holly is a genus of over 570 species of flowering plants in the family Aquifoliaceae, and the only living genus in that family.
Hordaland
Hordaland was a county in Norway, bordering Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Telemark, and Rogaland counties.
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Humanism
Humanism is a philosophical stance that emphasizes the individual and social potential, and agency of human beings, whom it considers the starting point for serious moral and philosophical inquiry.
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Hurrungane
Hurrungane (also written Hurrungene, Hurrungadn, Horungane) is a mountain range in the municipalities Luster and Årdal in Vestland county, Norway.
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Hurtigruten
Hurtigruten, formally Kystruten Bergen-Kirkenes ("coastal route Bergen-Kirkenes"), is a Norwegian public coastal route transporting passengers that travel locally, regionally and between the ports of call, and also cargo between ports north of Tromsø.
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Hyacinth
Hyacinthus is a small genus of bulbous herbs, spring-blooming perennials.
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Ice age
An ice age is a long period of reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers.
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Iceland
Iceland (Ísland) is a Nordic island country between the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe.
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Icelanders
Icelanders (Íslendingar) are an ethnic group and nation who are native to the island country of Iceland.
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Icelandic horse
The Icelandic horse (íslenski hesturinn), or Icelandic, is a breed of horse developed in Iceland.
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Icelandic language
Icelandic (íslenska) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family spoken by about 314,000 people, the vast majority of whom live in Iceland, where it is the national language.
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Idol (Norwegian TV series)
Idol - Jakten på en superstjerne is a television show on the Norwegian television channel TV 2, based on the popular British show Pop Idol.
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Ingólfr Arnarson
Ingólfr Arnarson, in some sources named Bjǫrnólfsson, (–) is commonly recognized as the first permanent Norse settler of Iceland, together with his wife Hallveig Fróðadóttir and foster brother Hjörleifr Hróðmarsson.
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Inger Hagerup
Inger Hagerup (née Halsør; 12 April 1905, in Bergen – 6 February 1985, in Fredrikstad) was a Norwegian writer, playwright and poet.
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Ingrid Espelid Hovig
Ingrid Espelid Hovig (3 June 1924 – 3 August 2018) was a Norwegian television chef and author of cook books.
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Interior architecture
Interior architecture is the design of a building or shelter from inside out, or the design of a new interior for a type of home that can be fixed.
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International E-road network
The international E-road network is a numbering system for roads in Europe developed by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE).
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Ireland
Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe.
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Isle of Man
The Isle of Man (Mannin, also Ellan Vannin) or Mann, is an island country and self-governing British Crown Dependency in the Irish Sea, between Great Britain and Ireland.
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Ivar Aasen
Ivar Andreas Aasen (5 August 1813 – 23 September 1896) was a Norwegian philologist, lexicographer, playwright, and poet.
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Ivar Giaever
Ivar Giaever (Giæver,; born April 5, 1929) is a Norwegian-American engineer and physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 with Leo Esaki and Brian Josephson "for their discoveries regarding tunnelling phenomena in solids".
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Jakob Sande
Jakob Sande (1 December 1906 – 16 March 1967) was a Norwegian writer, poet and folk singer from Dale in Sunnfjord.
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Jan Åge Fjørtoft
Jan Åge Fjørtoft (born 10 January 1967) is a Norwegian former professional footballer.
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Jæren
Jæren is a traditional district in Rogaland county, Norway.
Jørpeland
Jørpeland is the administrative centre of Strand municipality in Rogaland county, Norway.
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Jo Nesbø
Jon "Jo" Nesbø (born 29 March 1960) is a Norwegian writer, musician, and former football player and reporter.
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John Anderson (publisher)
John Anderson (March 22, 1836 – February 24, 1910) was a Norwegian-American publisher.
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John Arne Riise
John Arne Semundseth Riise (born 24 September 1980) is a Norwegian professional footballer and coach who plays as a left back and a left midfielder and serves as a player-manager of Toppserien club Avaldsnes.
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Jostedal Glacier
Jostedal Glacier or is the largest glacier in continental Europe.
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Jotunheimen
Jotunheimen ("the home of the Jötunn") is a mountainous area of roughly in southern Norway and is part of the long range known as the Scandinavian Mountains.
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Kari Traa
Kari Traa (born 28 January 1974) is a Norwegian former Olympic freestyle skier.
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Karmøy
Karmøy is a municipality in Rogaland county, Norway.
Kathrine Sørland
Kathrine Sørland (born 25 March 1980) is a Norwegian fashion model, tv host and beauty pageant titleholder who has competed at Miss World and Miss Universe beauty pageants.
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Kato Airline
Kato Airline AS, trading as Kato Air, was an airline which operated in Northern Norway between 1995 and 2008.
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Kirkenes
(Norwegian), (Northern Sami;, or is a town in Sør-Varanger Municipality in Finnmark county, in the far northeastern part of Norway. The town lies on a peninsula along the Bøkfjorden, an arm of the large Varangerfjorden, and is located just a few kilometres from the Norway–Russia border.
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Kitty Kielland
Kitty Lange Kielland (8 October 1843 – 1 October 1914) was a Norwegian landscape painter.
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Kjell Inge Røkke
Kjell Inge Røkke (born 25 October 1958) is a Norwegian businessman.
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Knut Arild Hareide
Knut Arild Hareide (born 23 November 1972) is a Norwegian politician who served as a member of parliament from Hordaland and as the leader of the Christian Democratic Party from 2011 to 2019.
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Knute Nelson
Knute Nelson (born Knud Evanger; February 2, 1843 – April 28, 1923) was a Norwegian-born American attorney and politician active in Wisconsin and Minnesota.
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Knute Rockne
Knute Kenneth Rockne (/kəˈnuːt/ ''kə-NOOT'', though commonly pronounced; March 4, 1888 – March 31, 1931) was an American football player and coach at the University of Notre Dame.
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Kopervik
Kopervik is the largest town on the island of Karmøy in Rogaland county, Norway.
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Kristian Valen
Kristian Valen (born 13 October 1974) is a comedian, actor, singer and songwriter originally from Stavanger, Norway.
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Kristiansand
Kristiansand is a city and municipality in Agder county, Norway.
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Kristiansund
Kristiansund (historically spelled Christianssund and earlier named Fosna) is a municipality on the western coast of Norway in the Nordmøre district of Møre og Romsdal county.
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Kurt Nilsen
Kurt Erik Nilsen (born 29 September 1978) is a Norwegian pop/country singer.
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Kvitsøy
Kvitsøy is an island municipality in Rogaland county, Norway.
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Labour Party (Norway)
The Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet; Arbeidarpartiet, A/Ap; Bargiidbellodat), formerly The Norwegian Labour Party (Det norske Arbeiderparti, DNA), is a social democratic political party in Norway.
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Lamb and mutton
Sheep meat is one of the most common meats around the world, taken from the domestic sheep, Ovis aries, and generally divided into lamb, from sheep in their first year, hogget, from sheep in their second, and mutton, from older sheep.
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Lars Bystøl
Lars Kristian Bystøl (born 4 December 1978) is a Norwegian former ski jumper who competed from 2002 to 2008.
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Lars Sponheim
Lars Sponheim (born 23 May 1957) is a Norwegian politician.
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Last Glacial Period
The Last Glacial Period (LGP), also known as the Last glacial cycle, occurred from the end of the Last Interglacial to the beginning of the Holocene, years ago, and thus corresponds to most of the timespan of the Late Pleistocene.
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Lærdal Tunnel
The Lærdal Tunnel (Lærdalstunnelen) is a road tunnel connecting the municipalities of Lærdal and Aurland in Vestland county, Norway; the southwest end of the tunnel is approximately northeast of Bergen. It carries two lanes of European Route E16, and was the final link completing the main highway that now enables car travel between Oslo and Bergen with no ferry connections and no difficult mountain crossings during winter.
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Leif Erikson
Leif Erikson, also known as Leif the Lucky, was a Norse explorer who is thought to have been the first European to set foot on continental America, approximately half a millennium before Christopher Columbus.
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Leif Larsen
Leif Andreas Larsen DSO, DSC, CGM, DSM and Bar (9 January 1906 – 12 October 1990), popularly known as "Shetlands Larsen", was a highly decorated Norwegian sailor.
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Leif Ove Andsnes
Leif Ove Andsnes (born 7 April 1970) is a Norwegian pianist and chamber musician.
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Leprosy
Leprosy, also known as Hansen's disease (HD), is a long-term infection by the bacteria Mycobacterium leprae or Mycobacterium lepromatosis.
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Lexicography
Lexicography is the study of lexicons, and is divided into two separate academic disciplines.
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Liberal Party (Norway)
The Liberal Party (Venstre,, V; Gurutbellodat) is a centrist political party in Norway.
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Lichen
A lichen is a symbiosis of algae or cyanobacteria living among filaments of multiple fungi species, along with a yeast embedded in the cortex or "skin", in a mutualistic relationship.
Limestone
Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.
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Lindisfarne
Lindisfarne, also called Holy Island, is a tidal island off the northeast coast of England, which constitutes the civil parish of Holy Island in Northumberland.
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List of glaciers in Norway
These are the largest glaciers on mainland Norway.
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List of heads of government of Norway
This is a list of heads of government of Norway.
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List of islands of Scotland
This is a list of islands of Scotland, the mainland of which is part of the island of Great Britain.
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List of mountains in Norway by height
There are 291 peaks in Norway with elevations of over above sea level and that have a topographic prominence of more than.
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List of municipalities of Norway
Municipalities in Norway are the basic unit of local government.
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List of Norwegian fjords
This list of Norwegian fjords shows many of the fjords in Norway.
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List of talk show hosts
Below is a list of talk show hosts, sorted alphabetically by their surnames.
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List of the busiest airports in the Nordic countries
This is a list of the 100 busiest airports in the Nordic countries by passengers per year, aircraft movements per year and freight and mail tonnes per year.
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Liv Grete Skjelbreid
Liv Grete Skjelbreid (born 7 July 1974) from Hålandsdal, Fusa, near the city of Bergen in western Norway, is a former professional biathlete.
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Lodve Solholm
Lodve Solholm (born 14 March 1949 in Vestnes) was the county governor of Møre og Romsdal (from 2009 until retirement in 2018).
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Ludvig Holberg
Ludvig Holberg, Baron of Holberg (3 December 1684 – 28 January 1754) was a writer, essayist, philosopher, historian and playwright born in Bergen, Norway, during the time of the Dano–Norwegian dual monarchy.
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Lufttransport
Lufttransport is a Norwegian helicopter and fixed-wing airline that operates primarily air ambulance helicopters and planes for the Norwegian and Swedish governments.
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Lund
Lund ((US) and) is a city in the southern Swedish province of Scania, across the Öresund strait from Copenhagen, Denmark.
Luster, Norway
Luster is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway.
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Magnhild Meltveit Kleppa
Magnhild Meltveit Kleppa (born 12 November 1948 in Fister, Norway) is a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party.
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Manitoba
Manitoba is a province of Canada at the longitudinal centre of the country.
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Marine Research
Marine Research were an indiepop group, based in Oxford/London (UK), formed in 1997 by four of the five members of Heavenly (Amelia Fletcher, Peter Momtchiloff, Cathy Rogers and Rob Pursey), following the death of Heavenly drummer Mathew Fletcher.
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Marten
A marten is a weasel-like mammal in the genus Martes within the subfamily Guloninae, in the family Mustelidae.
Måløy
Måløy is a town in the municipality of Kinn in Vestland county, Norway.
Møre og Romsdal
Møre og Romsdal (Møre and Romsdal) is a county in the northernmost part of Western Norway.
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Meatball
A meatball is ground meat (mince) rolled into a ball, sometimes along with other ingredients, such as bread crumbs, minced onion, eggs, butter, and seasoning.
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Medievalism
Medievalism is a system of belief and practice inspired by the Middle Ages of Europe, or by devotion to elements of that period, which have been expressed in areas such as architecture, literature, music, art, philosophy, scholarship, and various vehicles of popular culture.
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Midhordland
Midhordland or Midthordland is a traditional district in the Vestlandet region of Norway.
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Millennium
A millennium is a period of one thousand years, sometimes called a '''kiloannum''' (ka), or kiloyear (ky).
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Minnesota
Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States.
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Miss Norway
The Miss Norway (formerly known as "Frøken Norge") is a national beauty pageant in Norway The pageant was founded in 1950, where the winners were sent to Miss Universe.
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Molde
Molde is a town and municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway.
Molde University College
Molde University College - Specialized University in Logistics (Høgskolen i Molde - Vitenskapelig høgskole i logistikk, abbreviated HiM) is a Norwegian specialized university.
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Montana
Montana is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.
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Moose
The moose ('moose'; used in North America) or elk ('elk' or 'elks'; used in Eurasia) (Alces alces) is the world's tallest, largest and heaviest extant species of deer and the only species in the genus Alces.
Mycobacterium leprae
Mycobacterium leprae (also known as the leprosy bacillus or Hansen's bacillus) is one of the two species of bacteria that cause Hansen's disease (leprosy), a chronic but curable infectious disease that damages the peripheral nerves and targets the skin, eyes, nose, and muscles.
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Myllarguten
Torgeir Augundsson (1801 – 21 November 1872), better known as Myllarguten (meaning the Millerboy), is arguably the most acknowledged Norwegian folk musician to this day, and by far the most legendary.
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Netherlands
The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.
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Niccolò Paganini
Niccolò (or Nicolò) Paganini (27 October 178227 May 1840) was an Italian violinist and composer.
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Niels Henrik Abel
Niels Henrik Abel (5 August 1802 – 6 April 1829) was a Norwegian mathematician who made pioneering contributions in a variety of fields.
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Nikolai Astrup
Nikolai Astrup (30 August 1880 – 21 January 1928) was a Norwegian modernist painter.
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Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, officially the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (Sveriges riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne), is an economics award funded by Sveriges Riksbank and administered by the Nobel Foundation.
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Nobel Prize in Literature
The Nobel Prize in Literature (here meaning for literature; Nobelpriset i litteratur) is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, "in the field of literature, produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction" (original den som inom litteraturen har producerat det utmärktaste i idealisk riktning).
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Nordfjord
Nordfjord (Northern fjord—in contrast to Sunnfjord) is a traditional district of Norway.
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Nordhordland
Nordhordland is a traditional district in the western part of Norway.
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Nordic countries
The Nordic countries (also known as the Nordics or Norden) are a geographical and cultural region in Northern Europe and the North Atlantic.
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Nordmøre
Nordmøre (English: North-Møre) is a traditional district in the Norwegian county of Møre og Romsdal.
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Norsemen
The Norsemen (or Norse people) were a North Germanic linguistic group of the Early Middle Ages, during which they spoke the Old Norse language.
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North Dakota
North Dakota is a landlocked U.S. state in the Upper Midwest, named after the indigenous Dakota Sioux.
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North Sea
The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France.
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Northern Europe
The northern region of Europe has several definitions.
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Northern Germany
Northern Germany (Norddeutschland) is a linguistic, geographic, socio-cultural and historic region in the northern part of Germany which includes the coastal states of Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Lower Saxony and the two city-states Hamburg and Bremen.
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Northern Hemisphere
The Northern Hemisphere is the half of Earth that is north of the Equator.
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Norway
Norway (Norge, Noreg), formally the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula.
Norwegian Americans
Norwegian Americans (Norskamerikanere) are Americans with ancestral roots in Norway.
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Norwegian continental shelf
The Norwegian continental shelf (Den norske kontinentalsokkelen) (abbreviated as NCS) is the continental shelf over which Norway exercises sovereign rights as defined by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
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Norwegian Public Roads Administration
The Norwegian Public Roads Administration (Statens vegvesen) is a Norwegian government agency responsible for national and county public roads in Norway.
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Norwegian School of Economics
The Norwegian School of Economics (Norges Handelshøyskole) or NHH is a business school situated in Bergen, Norway.
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Norwegian trench
The Norwegian trench or Norwegian channel (Norskerenna; Norskerenden; Norska rännan) is an elongated depression in the sea floor off the southern coast of Norway.
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Norwegian University of Science and Technology
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU; Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet) is a public research university in Norway and the largest in terms of enrollment.
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Norwegians
Norwegians (Nordmenn) are an ethnic group and nation native to Norway, where they form the vast majority of the population.
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Nursing
Nursing is a health care profession that "integrates the art and science of caring and focuses on the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and human functioning; prevention of illness and injury; facilitation of healing; and alleviation of suffering through compassionate presence".
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Nynorsk
Nynorsk is one of the two official written standards of the Norwegian language, the other being Bokmål.
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Odda
Odda is a former municipality in the old Hordaland county, Norway.
Officer (armed forces)
An officer is a person who holds a position of authority as a member of an armed force or uniformed service.
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Old Norse
Old Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian is a stage of development of North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages.
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Old Norse religion
Old Norse religion, also known as Norse paganism, is a branch of Germanic religion which developed during the Proto-Norse period, when the North Germanic peoples separated into a distinct branch of the Germanic peoples.
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Ole Bull
Ole Bornemann Bull (5 February 181017 August 1880) was a Norwegian virtuoso violinist and composer.
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Ole Gunnar Solskjær
Ole Gunnar Solskjær (born 26 February 1973) is a Norwegian professional football manager and former player.
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Orkney
Orkney (Orkney; Orkneyjar; Orknøjar), also known as the Orkney Islands (archaically "The Orkneys"), is an archipelago off the north coast of Scotland.
Oslo
Oslo (or; Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway.
Otter
Otters are carnivorous mammals in the subfamily Lutrinae.
Outer Hebrides
The Outer Hebrides or Western Isles (na h-Eileanan Siar, na h-Eileanan an Iar or label; Waster Isles), sometimes known as the Long Isle or Long Island (an t-Eilean Fada), is an island chain off the west coast of mainland Scotland.
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Paleic surface
The paleic surface or palaeic surface (paleiske overflaten) is an erosion surface of gentle slopes that exist in South Norway.
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Passive margin
A passive margin is the transition between oceanic and continental lithosphere that is not an active plate margin.
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Pasta
Pasta is a type of food typically made from an unleavened dough of wheat flour mixed with water or eggs, and formed into sheets or other shapes, then cooked by boiling or baking.
Pentecostalism
Pentecostalism or classical Pentecostalism is a Protestant Charismatic Christian movement that emphasizes direct personal experience of God through baptism with the Holy Spirit.
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Per Inge Torkelsen
Per Inge Torkelsen (21 March 1953 – 22 June 2021) was a Norwegian comedian, author, radio personality, and self declared clown.
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Peter C. Assersen
Peter Christian Assersen (January 5, 1839 – December 6, 1906) was a civil engineer and Rear Admiral in the United States Navy.
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Petroleum
Petroleum or crude oil, also referred to as simply oil, is a naturally occurring yellowish-black liquid mixture of mainly hydrocarbons, and is found in geological formations.
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Philology
Philology is the study of language in oral and written historical sources.
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Pia Tjelta
Pia Merete Tjelta (born 12 September 1977, in Stavanger) is a Norwegian actress.
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Pinnekjøtt
() is a traditional Norwegian main course dinner dish based on lamb ribs.
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Pizza
Pizza is an Italian dish typically consisting of a flat base of leavened wheat-based dough topped with tomato, cheese, and other ingredients, baked at a high temperature, traditionally in a wood-fired oven.
Precipitation
In meteorology, precipitation is any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls from clouds due to gravitational pull.
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Progress Party (Norway)
The Progress Party (Fremskrittspartiet; Framstegspartiet, FrP; Ovddádusbellodat), is a political party in Norway.
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Public service obligation
In the context of European Union law, a public service obligation or PSO is an obligation imposed on an organisation by legislation or contract to provide a service of general interest within EU territories.
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Quaternary glaciation
The Quaternary glaciation, also known as the Pleistocene glaciation, is an alternating series of glacial and interglacial periods during the Quaternary period that began 2.58 Ma (million years ago) and is ongoing.
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Radøy
Radøy is a former municipality in the Nordhordland district of the old Hordaland county, Norway.
Randaberg
Randaberg is a municipality in Rogaland county, Norway.
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Rear admiral (United States)
A rear admiral in the uniformed services of the United States is either of two different ranks of commissioned officers: one-star flag officers and two-star flag officers.
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Red deer
The red deer (Cervus elaphus) is one of the largest deer species.
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Red Electoral Alliance
Red Electoral Alliance (Rød Valgallianse, Raud Valallianse, RV) was an alliance of far-left groups formed into a Norwegian political party to promote revolutionary socialism ideals into the Norwegian parliament.
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Regions of Norway
Norway is commonly divided into five major geographical regions.
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Reindeer
The reindeer or caribou (Rangifer tarandus) is a species of deer with circumpolar distribution, native to Arctic, subarctic, tundra, boreal, and mountainous regions of Northern Europe, Siberia, and North America.
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Rennesøy
Rennesøy is a former municipality in Rogaland county, Norway.
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Reykjavík
Reykjavík is the capital and largest city of Iceland.
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River incision
River incision is the narrow erosion caused by a river or stream that is far from its base level.
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Roald Jensen
Roald Jensen (11 January 1943 – 6 October 1987), nicknamed "Kniksen", was one of Norway's most celebrated football players.
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Rock (geology)
In geology, rock (or stone) is any naturally occurring solid mass or aggregate of minerals or mineraloid matter.
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Rogaland
Rogaland is a county in Western Norway, bordering the North Sea to the west and the counties of Vestland to the north, Telemark to the east and Agder to the east and southeast.
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Romantic nationalism
Romantic nationalism (also national romanticism, organic nationalism, identity nationalism) is the form of nationalism in which the state claims its political legitimacy as an organic consequence of the unity of those it governs.
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Romsdal
Romsdal is a traditional district in the Norwegian county Møre og Romsdal, located between Nordmøre and Sunnmøre.
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Roots revival
A roots revival (folk revival) is a trend which includes young performers popularizing the traditional musical styles of their ancestors.
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Royal Norwegian Naval Academy
The Royal Norwegian Naval Academy (RNoNA, Sjøkrigsskolen in Norwegian) is located at Laksevåg in Bergen.
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Royal Norwegian Navy
The Royal Norwegian Navy (Sea defence) is the branch of the Norwegian Armed Forces responsible for naval operations of Norway, including those of the Norwegian Coast Guard.
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Ryfylke
Ryfylke is a traditional district in the northeastern part of Rogaland county, Norway.
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Sandnes
Sandnes is a city and municipality in Rogaland, Norway.
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Sandstone
Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains, cemented together by another mineral.
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Sargent County, North Dakota
Sargent County is a county in the U.S. state of North Dakota.
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Sauda
Sauda is a municipality in Rogaland county, Norway.
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in West Asia and the Middle East.
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Scandinavia
Scandinavia is a subregion of Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural, and linguistic ties between its constituent peoples.
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Scandinavian Peninsula
The Scandinavian Peninsula is located in Northern Europe, and roughly comprises the mainlands of Sweden, Norway and the northwestern area of Finland.
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Scoresby Sound
Scoresby Sound (Danish: Scoresby Sund, Greenlandic: Kangertittivaq) is a large fjord system of the Greenland Sea on the eastern coast of Greenland.
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Scotland
Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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Settlement of Iceland
The settlement of Iceland (landnámsöld) is generally believed to have begun in the second half of the ninth century, when Norse settlers migrated across the North Atlantic.
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Seven Sisters Waterfall (Norway)
The Seven Sisters (De Syv Søstrene or Dei sju systrene, also known as Knivsflåfossen) is the 39th tallest waterfall in Norway.
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Shetland
Shetland, also called the Shetland Islands, is an archipelago in Scotland lying between Orkney, the Faroe Islands, and Norway.
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Sikhism
Sikhism, also known as Sikhi (ਸਿੱਖੀ,, from translit), is a monotheistic religion and philosophy, that originated in the Punjab region of India around the end of the 15th century CE.
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Sissel Kyrkjebø
Sissel Kyrkjebø (born 24 June 1969), also simply known as Sissel, is a Norwegian soprano.
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Skiing
Skiing is the use of skis to glide on snow for basic transport, a recreational activity, or a competitive winter sport.
Skjolden
Skjolden is a village in the municipality of Luster in Vestland county, Norway.
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Skudeneshavn
(also known as Skudeneshamn or simply Skudenes) is a town in Karmøy municipality in Rogaland county, Norway.
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Sletta, Vestland
Sletta is a rural linear village in the municipality of Alver in Vestland county, Norway.
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Smalahove
Smalahove (also called smalehovud, sau(d)ehau(d) or skjelte) is a Western Norwegian traditional dish made from a sheep's head, originally eaten before Christmas.
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The Socialist Left Party (Sosialistisk Venstreparti, SV;Sosialisttalaš Gurutbellodat) is a democratic socialist political party in Norway.
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Sogn
Sogn is a traditional district in Western Norway (Vestlandet).
Sogn og Fjordane
Sogn og Fjordane (English: "Sogn and Fjordane") was a county in western Norway, up to 1 January 2020 when it was merged to become part of Vestland county.
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Sogn og Fjordane University College
Sogn and Fjordane University College (Høgskulen i Sogn og Fjordane, HiSF) was a Norwegian state institution of higher education, in the county of Sogn og Fjordane.
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Sognefjord
The Sognefjord or Sognefjorden (Sogn Fjord), nicknamed the King of the Fjords (Fjordenes konge), is the largest and deepest fjord in Norway.
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Soil
Soil, also commonly referred to as earth or dirt, is a mixture of organic matter, minerals, gases, liquids, and organisms that together support the life of plants and soil organisms.
Sokndal
Sokndal is the southernmost municipality in Rogaland county, Norway.
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Sophus Lie
Marius Sophus Lie (17 December 1842 – 18 February 1899) was a Norwegian mathematician.
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South Dakota
South Dakota (Sioux: Dakȟóta itókaga) is a landlocked state in the North Central region of the United States.
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Southern Norway
Southern Norway (Sørlandet; lit. "The Southland") is the geographical region (landsdel) along the Skagerrak coast of southern Norway. Western Norway and southern Norway are regions of Norway.
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Sparagmite
Sparagmite (from the Latin sparagma, meaning "fragment") is an arkosic sandstone, greywacke and conglomerate set of beds so named by Jens Esmark in 1829.
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State ownership
State ownership, also called public ownership or government ownership, is the ownership of an industry, asset, property, or enterprise by the national government of a country or state, or a public body representing a community, as opposed to an individual or private party.
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Stavanger
Stavanger (US usually) is a city and municipality in Norway.
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Stave church
A stave church is a medieval wooden Christian church building once common in north-western Europe.
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STOL
A short takeoff and landing (STOL) aircraft is a conventional fixed-wing aircraft that has short runway requirements for takeoff and landing.
Stone Age
The Stone Age was a broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used to make stone tools with an edge, a point, or a percussion surface.
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Stord
Stord is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway.
Stord/Haugesund University College
Stord/Haugesund University College (HSH), Norwegian: Høgskolen Stord/Haugesund) was a medium sized state university college in Norway before it was merged with Bergen University College and Sogn og Fjordane University College to become The university college offered bachelor's and master's degrees in various fields (including information and communication technology, safety management, health sciences, and marine studies) and courses for professionals.
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Store Skagastølstind
Store Skagastølstind (also known as Storen) is the third highest peak in Norway.
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Storting
The Storting (Stortinget) is the supreme legislature of Norway, established in 1814 by the Constitution of Norway.
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Strand, Norway
Strand is a municipality in Rogaland county, Norway.
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Structural geology
Structural geology is the study of the three-dimensional distribution of rock units with respect to their deformational histories.
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Sunnfjord
Sunnfjord (the southern fjord - in contrast to Nordfjord) is a traditional district in Western Norway located in Vestland county.
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Sunnhordland
Sunnhordland is a traditional district in the western region of Norway.
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Sunnmøre
Sunnmøre (Møre) is the southernmost traditional district of the western Norwegian county of Møre og Romsdal.
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Svein Hatløy
Svein Hatløy (12 May 1940 – 5 July 2015) was a Norwegian architect, professor and founder of the Bergen School of Architecture.
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Swedish language
Swedish (svenska) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family, spoken predominantly in Sweden and in parts of Finland.
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Synnøve Svabø
Synnøve Svabø (born 22 September 1968 in Sunnmøre, Norway) is a Norwegian talk show host.
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Teacher
A teacher, also called a schoolteacher or formally an educator, is a person who helps students to acquire knowledge, competence, or virtue, via the practice of teaching.
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Time, Norway
Time is a municipality in Rogaland county, Norway.
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Toka Gorge
The Toka Gorge (Tokagjelet) is a river gorge in Kvam, Norway.
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Tone Damli
Tone Damli Aaberge (born 12 April 1988) is a Norwegian singer-songwriter and actress.
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Tore André Flo
Tore André Flo (born 15 June 1973) is a Norwegian professional football coach and a former striker who is the manager of 1. divisjon club Sogndal.
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Trøndelag
Trøndelag (or is a county and coextensive with the Trøndelag region (also known as Midt-Norge or Midt-Noreg, "Mid-Norway") in the central part of Norway. It was created in 1687, then named Trondhjem County (Trondhjems Amt); in 1804 the county was split into Nord-Trøndelag and Sør-Trøndelag by the King of Denmark-Norway, and the counties were reunited in 2018 after a vote of the two counties in 2016. Western Norway and Trøndelag are regions of Norway.
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Tree line
The tree line is the edge of a habitat at which trees are capable of growing and beyond which they are not.
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Troll A platform
The Troll A platform is a Condeep gravity-based structure offshore natural gas platform in the Troll gas field off the west coast of Norway.
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Troll gas field
Troll is a natural gas and oil field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, one of the biggest in the North Sea, holding 40% of Norway’s gas – it also possesses significant quantities of oil, in thin zones under the gas cap, to the west of the field.
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Trond Mohn
Trond Mohn (born 3 April 1943) is a Norwegian billionaire businessman and philanthropist.
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Trondheim
Trondheim (Tråante), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros, and Trondhjem, is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway.
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Ulla-Førre
Ulla-Førre is a hydropower complex in Southern Norway.
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Ulsteinvik
is a town in the municipality of Ulstein, Møre og Romsdal, Norway.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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University college
In a number of countries, a university college is a college institution that provides tertiary education but does not have full or independent university status.
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University Museum of Bergen
The University Museum of Bergen (Universitetsmuseet i Bergen) is a university museum in Bergen, Norway.
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University of Bergen
The University of Bergen (Universitetet i Bergen) is a public research university in Bergen, Norway.
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University of Oslo
The University of Oslo (Universitetet i Oslo; Universitas Osloensis) is a public research university located in Oslo, Norway.
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University of Stavanger
The University of Stavanger (Norwegian:, UiS) is a public research university located in Stavanger, Norway.
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Unst
Unst (Ønst) is one of the North Isles of the Shetland Islands, Scotland.
Urnes Stave Church
Urnes Stave Church (Urnes stavkyrkje) is a 12th-century stave church at Ornes, along the Lustrafjorden in the municipality of Luster in Vestland county, Norway.
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Valdres
Valdres is a traditional district in central, southern Norway, situated between the districts of Gudbrandsdalen and Hallingdal.
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Vamp (band)
Vamp (initiated in 1990) is a folk-rock band from Haugesund, Norway with founding members Øyvind Staveland, Calle Øyvind Apeland, Paul Hansen, Bjørn Berge, Odin Staveland and Tore Jamne.
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Varg Vikernes
Louis Cachet (born Kristian Vikernes; 11 February 1973), better known as Varg Vikernes, is a Norwegian musician and author best known for his early black metal albums and later crimes.
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Vøringfossen
Vøringsfossen (Vøring Falls) is the 83rd highest waterfall in Norway on the basis of total fall.
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Vest-Telemark
Vest-Telemark is a traditional district in Norway.
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Vestland
Vestland is a county in Norway established on 1 January 2020.
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VID Specialized University
The VID Specialized University (VID vitenskapelige høgskole) is a Norwegian accredited, private, non-profit specialized university headquartered in Oslo.
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Viking Age
The Viking Age (about) was the period during the Middle Ages when Norsemen known as Vikings undertook large-scale raiding, colonising, conquest, and trading throughout Europe and reached North America.
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Vikings
Vikings were seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway, and Sweden), who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded, and settled throughout parts of Europe.
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Vindafjord
Vindafjord is a municipality in Rogaland county, Norway.
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Vinland
Vinland, Vineland, or Winland (lit) was an area of coastal North America explored by Vikings.
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Volda University College
Volda University College (Høgskulen i Volda or HVO) is one of the no-tuition state institutions in the system of higher education in Norway.
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Voss
Voss is a municipality and a traditional district in Vestland county, Norway.
Water taxi
A water taxi or a water bus is a boat used to provide public or private transport, usually, but not always, in an urban environment.
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Waterford
Waterford is a city in County Waterford in the south-east of Ireland.
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West Virginia
West Virginia is a landlocked state in the Southern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.
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Western Norway University of Applied Sciences
Western Norway University of Applied Sciences or HVL is a Norwegian public institution of higher education, established in January 2017 through the merging of formerly independent colleges across five campuses: Bergen, Førde, Haugesund, Sogndal and Stord.
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Wexford
Wexford is the county town of County Wexford, Ireland.
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Widerøe
Widerøes Flyveselskap AS, trading as Widerøe, is a Norwegian airline, and is the largest regional airline operating in the Nordic countries.
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William Cecil Slingsby
William Cecil Slingsby (1849–1929) was an English mountain climber and alpine explorer born in Bell Busk, near Gargrave, Yorkshire.
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Wisconsin
Wisconsin is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest of the United States.
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Wolverine
The wolverine (Gulo gulo), also called the carcajou or quickhatch (from East Cree, kwiihkwahaacheew), is the largest land-dwelling member of the family Mustelidae.
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World Idol
World Idol (Germany: SuperStar Weltweit, Arab World: SuperStar El Alaam) is a one-off international version of the singing competition television show Pop Idol, featuring winners of the various national ''Idol'' shows around the world competing against each other.
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Younger Dryas
The Younger Dryas (YD) was a period in Earth's geologic history that occurred circa 12,900 to 11,700 years Before Present (BP).
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2009 Norwegian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Norway on 13 and 14 September 2009.
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See also
Regions of Norway
- Østre Agder
- Barents Region
- Central Norway
- Demographics of Western Norway
- Eastern Norway
- Lindesnes Region
- Lister Region
- Nordenfjells
- Northern Norway
- Norway Proper
- Regions of Norway
- Republic of Gulating
- Sápmi
- Scandinavian montane birch forest and grasslands
- South Norway
- Southern Norway
- Trøndelag
- Western Norway
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Norway
Also known as Geography of Western Norway, Religion in Western Norway, Vestlandet, West Norway, Western Norwegian, Wildlife of Western Norway.
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