Top 13 Facts Of Norway That Blow Your Mind

Saturday, April 4, 2020


Norway is country with full of happiness, richness, mountains,plateaus,wildlife and all these things then after reading this article you proved to be wrong because Norway is much more better than from these things this country is full of myths and facts probably even many Norwegians don't know these facts

13. NORWAY IS ACTUALLY "NORGE"
People of Norway called their country "NORGE" actually "Norway" is an English name which means "WAY LEADING TO NORTH" and its actually name is "NORGE" spelled as "NORGE" and similarly it's capital is sometimes called "ANSLO" or "ASLO" not 'OSLO' actually the full name of country is 'THE KINGDOM OF NORWAY' and language of this country is popular by name "NORSK" in Norway.

12. FIRST U.N SECRETARY GENERAL
U.N Secretary General is the head of U.N Secretariat, After the WWII "TRYGVE LIE " appointed as the First U.N Secretary general of U.N some beliefs to make him Secretary General is that the Norway was Neutral in the WWII so the country spread peace and harmony all over the globe.

11. NOBLE PEACE PRIZE IS IN OSLO
Noble Peace Prize is only awarded by the Chairman of Norway Nobel Committee since 1901. In 2019, it was Abiy Ahmad Ali was awarded with Noble Peace Prize which was held in the City Hall of Capital Oslo.Alfred Nobel chooses Norway to handle the Peace Prize and Other Five Nobels to be handled Sweden. It's unknown Why Alfred Nobel select only Norway country for Peace Prize.

10. BEING NEUTRAL OF NORWAY IN FIRST WORLD WAR
After the first World War Norway declare its neutrality in any type of war with Great Britain. But sixty days before the WWII German Army invade the Scandinavian country because of its beauty the country is full of beautiful Nature like sea ports, mines of ore of iron, wildlife sanctuaries and many more.

09. PENGUIN OF SCOTLAND IS COLONEL IN CHIEF OF NORWEGIAN KING'S GUARD
Yeah, you heard it right. Norway recruited or we can say adopted its first Penguin as Colonel-In-Chief named Nils Olav from the Edinburgh Zoo in 1972 and still there is Penguin in 2005 who commands the Norwegian King's Guard.

08. IS NORWAY HOME OF HELL ??
Many Norwegians says that they live in a hell, actually there is village named "HELL" in Norway considered as hell of many peoples actually the village have railway station and if you take a little footsteps towards forest from station it is believed that there are many cruel reindeers who lived there and are very dangerous for them that's why they called it hell and government of Norway shut down that village in every winter.

07. SKIING IS GIVEN BY NORWAY TO THE WORLD
Yes you heard it correct actually Norway is a country full with snowfall most of the time according to some statistics the summer temperature of Norway is not exceed than 21 degree Celsius this is the country who invented the sports "SKIING" actually the father of modern skiing is "SONDRE NORHEIM" and you can imagine the level of Norway in skiing in International medal tally.

06. NORWAY IS A HUB OF WILD REINDEER IN EUROPE
For many years ago wild reindeer are walking here and this is the country hub of wild reindeer in Europe but the peoples in late century are used to hunt them that's why they are shifted from here to plateaus, lush valleys, mountains to protect them from Hunters.

05. SUCCESS OF NORWAY IN WINTER OLYMPICS
Success of Norway in Winter Olympics is not less than any miracle it's performance is outstanding Norways spotted at first rank with 38 total medals, Germany is second with 30 medals tally, we can say that "NORWAY" rocks in all the winter Olympics. Norway lead in winter Olympics in ski jumping with 11 gold medals, nordic combined with 13 gold medals and cross country skiing with 47 gold medals, this shows this nation is rocks in Winter Olympics.

04. NORWAY HAS MORE THAN 450000 LAKES
Norway has more than 450000 freshwater lakes if we distribute these lakes among the population of Norway then every lake have 12 person for it now you can imagine Norway is a nation full of lakes.

03. NORWAY HAS BEST HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX
In the list of U.N Human development INDEX Norway leads from 2014 this nation always at the top in the list of HDI this nation us always doing best because the people of this country happiest of all time they have no tensions and they have very high income.

02. NORWAY TOPS WORLD HAPPINESS INDEX
IN the list of world happiness index Norway is always in the top 05 countries which made this country one of the best to live in.

01. MIDNIGHT SUN DURING SUMMER AND POLAR NIGHTS DURING WINTER
This is a natural phenomenon actually the rotation of earth is tilted at axis with respect to Sun and during the summer times and the north pole is angles toward earth and this why visibility of sun is also in the midnight this phenomenon is also k own as polar day and another phenomenon is polar night which is just opposite to polar day in this phenomenon sun is not risen more than 24 hours.

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