Greetings from Norway!
I’ll have more updates later but I’m here until the end of the month and hopefully these next 10 days are fantastic here. Stayed tuned to find out if my sister bothered me on the airplane ride again or not, how the food was, and anything else out of the blue that might have happened between Newark and Oslo.
Anyways, here are some random pieces of information regarding the country:
Population: 4,644,457 (July 2008 est.)
Religions: (2004)
Church of Norway 85.7%,
Pentecostal 1%,
Roman Catholic 1%,
Other Christian 2.4%,
Muslim 1.8%,
Other 8.1%
Literacy:
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 100%
male: 100%
female: 100%
Government Type: Constitutional Monarchy
International Disputes: Norway asserts a territorial claim in Antarctica (Queen Maud Land and its continental shelf); despite dialogue, Russia and Norway continue to dispute their maritime limits in the Barents Sea and Russia’s fishing rights beyond Svalbard’s territorial limits within the Svalbard Treaty zone.
All of this information is courtesy of the very friendly CIA: The World Factbook.
– ABG From OSL