Norway is filled with a beautiful landscape and cold waters. It is perfect for vacationing and also living. During winter, thousands of people visit to see the snowy vast lands and experience the climate. It is filled with mountains along with the rest of the Scandinavian region. The largest industry is petroleum production which helps the economy a lot. Fish is an important food and is eaten with almost all meals because, of the access to water. The country’s Independence Day is May 17, very significant to all inhabitants. As a whole, Norway is very advanced with almost all of Europe. They have their own language, currency, military, and provides mostly for itself. The country is run as a constitutional monarchy. The Capital of Oslo is most significant city in all of Norway, it has the most crucial airports, buildings, industries, museums and transportation.
Norway is located in the region of Scandinavia along with Sweden and Finland, which is found in northern most Europe. The Scandinavian Mountains are located in Norway and is one of the most visited landforms. Also, Norway has some of the last standing Glaciers from the ice age, named Folgefonna, Hardangerjokulen, and Jostedalsbreen. Norway also has over 50,000 islands surrounding the coast, according to the World Atlas. The Norwegian Sea, North Sea and Barents Sea surround Norway. Inside of Norway the major lakes and rivers are; Lake Mjosa, Lake Tana, River Mjosa, Lagen River, Glama River, Numedalslågen River, and Gudbrandsdalslågen River. Petroleum is a very valuable resource in Norway and is one of the largest productions. Fishing is also very common, and feeds a large majority of the country. The climate in Norway is very diverse, the winters very cold and are filled wi...
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...ell taken care of. It does have minor pollution problems though. “Air quality in Norway has generally improved since the 1990s. However, many people in the larger towns are still affected by local air pollution,and some limit values are still exceeded every winter,” according to the Norwegian Environment Agency. Air pollution is not a significant deal though due to the use of public transportation; less pollution is being made because of the decrease in car use. Also they have some radioactive pollution, but it is not enough to affect the people slightly. Norway has little to no resource issues, they are very self-sufficient and able to provide for their country.
Norway has and is a very successful state. It is a very stable country, with healthy people and good living conditions. The country is very rich and most people make more money than needed for survival.
Iceland and Greenland are located at high latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere and they face each other across the sea. Though Iceland is considered one of the five Nordic countries while Greenland belongs to North America, both of them were once colonies of Vikings and played important roles in Viking age. Viking civilization experienced from prosperity to decline during 8CE to 14CE on these two islands. It is very possible to find out the reasons for Viking’s ups and downs through studying the histories of Iceland and Greenland’s development.
In Norway capitalism has been combined with socialism.
Like many Norwegians in the late 1800’s my ancestors made the expedition from Norway to America in pursuit of a better life. The most common route that most Norwegian natives would voyage was from Norway to New York, and then they would colonize in the Great Plains in the upper Midwest. Which encompassed states such as Minnesota, Wisconsin, or the Dakotas. Most Norwegians preferred to settle in rural a area, which was what these states offered, as well as the possibility to stay in close proximity with other Norwegian immigrants.
April 1st, 1999 a new territory was created when new boundaries were drawn in Canada’s northern territory, the Northwest Territories. The Inuik people that lived in the Northwest Territories were the reason behind the motivation for the separation. After a long hard process, filled with agreements and disagreements, Nunavut was finally declared its own territory and was separated from the Northwest Territories.
Recently, Finland is considered one of the best when it comes to education and how they have come to teach their children. Finland, is located in Northern Europe and main religion, is that of Evangelical Lutheran. In Finland their government is called a republic and their main language is Finnish. When it comes to how to act the Finnish people are very modest and will often downplay being praised, as they are modest people. When it comes to how one should behave the Finnish culture believes that you should always act in a proper and courteous manner as it is the most important to never to be disrespectful. They believe in talking in moderate tones and do nothing that would call attention, as this wa...
Analyzing the Norse Collapse from Diamond’s view, the first factor that he examines is the environmental damage aspect. He states that “The Greenland Norse damaged their environment in at least three ways: by destroying the natural vegetation, by causing soil erosion, and by cutting turf” (Diamond, p.248). Diamond believes that when the Vikings arrived, they began burning woodlands to clear areas for their livestock, and cut many trees down for shelter and firewood. When the Greenlanders began raising animals such as cows, sheep and goats, the amount of fodder for the animals increased, which in turn increased the amount of farming they had to do to maint...
The title "Viking" includes a wide description of Nordic people; Danes, Swedes, and Norwegians, who lived during a period of
This essay discusses the influx of Norwegian immigrants as well as their role is skiing logging boating and fishing. This resource is based on the archives in the Nordic Heritage Museum. The weakness with this resource is that it is just a short easy although it strength is it covers many aspects of how Norwegians helped develop Seattle.
Sweden is a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary form of government. According to the Swedish Constitution, all public power derives from the people. Sweden's head of state, the King, has only ceremonial functions. The top branch of the national government is the Parliament, which has 349 members in one chamber.
Norway is one of the “three fingers” of Scandinavia, and is just larger than New Mexico. It covers 125,181 square miles. It is located in Northern Europe, bordering the North Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean. The coastline stretches 21,925 km. The population of Norway is 4.3 million and growing. The population is predominantly or Nordic (Scandinavian) decent. There is also a small minority (20,000) of native Sámis (Laplanders), who live mostly in the North. Many aspects of business and management in Norway are very similar to those of America including language and communication, power structures/politics, work ethics, food and eating habits, dress, and religious beliefs.
In the middle of the 19th century when Norway, needed to have a new written language of it’s own, after being under Danish rule. The process of getting this new Norwegian written language, was not straightforward, as not one way of doing was agreed on. There were two rivaling ways of getting the new Norwegian written language. One was to adopt a newly created language based upon the older dialects, that reassembled old norse the most. This approach was founded by Ivar Aasen. The other approach was to use the dano-norwegian that a lot of people already used, and standardize it a gradually changing the danish words into Norwegian. This idea was founded by Knud knudsen, and is what lead to bokmål. These two different approaches battled in what later was known as the language conflict of Norway.
Legally the countries remained separate sovereign states. However they had domestic and foreign policies which were directed by the same common monarch. Afterwards there were different interests, like for instance the Swedish nobleness’ dissatisfaction with the very dominant role of Denmark and Holstein, which were reasons for a conflict. This problem could weight the union down. From the 1430s on, there were issues in intervals which turned out as very hard to resolve. In 1523 then, Gustav Vasa became king of Sweden and the Kalmar Union fell apart. That was also when the Danish king lost control over the Swedish kingdom. As a following, it was only the personal union Denmark-Norway survived until 1814.
From researching the country of Lithuania I was able to get a general overview if how the country is doing in many different aspects. With the learned statistics about Lithuania’s background, economic, standard of living, financial status, political stand point and environmental surroundings I can clearly get a good understanding of what it would be like to live in Lithuania. Also it was shown that the different countries around the world have their own specialties or strengths of things that they are better at. I had always been told that the United States is a great place to live and how lots of people want to move to the United States and through some of these stats I can see that yeah the United States generally does have better conditions. In conclusion this is what I have developed as my understanding of the wellbeing of the people living in Lithuania.
There are many different pros and cons in life. Regardless of what someone is trying to compare. It is very interesting when doing research on a new country that an individual does not know much about that particular topic. What are the most important qualities in a country that help us function as a society? They are economic growth, strong structural system with government so the people can have a leader to follow in the right path.
...f Germany when it comes to decentralization reforms. And this setup has been rewarding for Germany and the municipalities, today Baden-Wuerttemberg is one of the richest state of Germany and also one of the richest region in Europe, many famous companies are situated there like Carl Zeiss and Robert Bosch and the quality of living is relatively high.