Saturday, April 30, 2022

NO-229166

Yesterday I came home after a few days on holidays on Madeira island and I was hoping to find a lot of mail in my mailbox but only found 3 cards. Only 3 but nice cards, including this official from Norway, my 5th official from this country and a new card to the FOTW collection.

 
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NO-229166, sent by Marit.
Norway has an area of 385.178 km², a population of 5.214.900 and its capital is Oslo.
 Unique:
 * Longest european coastline - 53.199 km, according to the World Resources Institure;
 * Laerdal Tunnel - 24.5 km, the longest road tunnel in the world, on European route E16;
 Famous:  
* Winter Olympic Kings - Norway has won the most medals with a total of 303 medals (107 gold medals);
* The most olympic medals - 451 medals, the higest number of Summer and Winter Olympics per capita;
 History:
* Formation - 872, Kingdom of Norway with Harald Fairhair as its first king (872 - 930);
* Ahrensburg culture - 11th to the 10th millennia BC, the first inhabitants of Norway. 

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