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Norway comprises the western part of Scandinavia in Northern Europe. The rugged coastline, broken by huge fjords and thousands of islands, stretches over 2,500 km as the crow flies and over 83,000 km including the fjords and islands. Norway shares a 2,542 km land border with Sweden, Finland, and Russia to the east. To the west and south, Norway is bordered by the Norwegian Sea, the North Sea, and Skagerak. The Barents Sea washes on Norway's northern coasts.
Norway is divided into nineteen first-level administrative regions known as fylker ("counties", singular fylke) and 430 second-level kommuner ("municipalities", singular kommune). The fylke is the intermediate administration between state and municipality. The King is represented in every county by a Fylkesmann.
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/12/books/12book.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss"><img src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/08/12/arts/JP-BOOK/JP-BOOK-thumbStandard.jpg" border="0" height="75" width="75" hspace="4" align="left"></a>The Norwegian novelist Per Petterson’s new novel doesn’t have the same historical sweep as his best seller “Out Stealing Horses,” but it is just as well written.
Norway vacation There are 96 settlements with city status in Norway. In most cases, the city borders are coterminous with the borders of their respective municipalities. Often, Norwegian city municipalities include large non-built up areas; for example, Oslo municipality contains large forests, located north and south-east of the city, and over half of Bergen municipality consists of mountaineous areas. The ten largest municipalities with city status in Norway are: Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim, Stavanger, Kristiansand, Fredrikstad, Tromso, Sandnes, Drammen and Sarpsborg.