Amazing Facts About Norway

• The distance from Oslo to Hammerfest is as far as Oslo to Athens
• Although Finland has been named “land of 1000 lakes”, Norway’s countless lakes does in fact far outnumber Finland’s. About 450,000 (half million) lakes in Norway are identified, compared to a mere 60,000 lakes in Finland!
• Regarded as the birth place of modern skiing
• Norwegians rejected EU membership twice in referendums, but the country have implemented more EU directives than any of the actual EU member states
• Food stores are not allowed to stay open on Sundays, but petrol stations and kiosks selling groceries are.
• The original cheese slicer (“ostehøvel”) was invented and patented by Bjørklund, a Norwegian carpenter, in 1925?
• One of the most popular cheeses in Norway is brown
• Grandiosa frozen pizza is unofficially named as the Norwegian national dish
• The Lærdal road tunnel on road E16 is the world’s longest road tunnel (24.5 kilometers/15 miles)
• The Internet web browser Opera is Norwegian
• The Norwegian national football team is one of the few teams to have never lost against Brazil? Two victories and one draw is our record against the five times World Champions.