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Posted 09 Dec 2024

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India, Norway discuss investments under European Free Trade Association (EFTA) pact.

Political features:

  • Location: Northern Europe and occupies the western half of the Scandinavian peninsula.
  • Bordering nations: Sweden, Finland, and Russia.
  • Bordering water bodies: Barents Sea (north), the Norwegian Sea and the North Sea (west), and Skagerrak (Skager Strait) (south).

Geographical features:

  • About two-thirds of Norway is mountainous, and much off its indented coastline lie, carved by deep glacial fjords.
  • Fjords/fiords: Very deep glacial troughs filled with sea water and making up shorelines (in high latitudes). E.g. Sogn (Sogne) Fjord etc. 
  • Numerous extensive areas called peneplains, whose relief has been largely eroded away, also were formed.
    • Peneplain are gently undulating, almost featureless plain that is produced by fluvial erosion.
  • The Norwegian Current carries relatively warm water northward along the coast of Norway.
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