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Norway's coastline is longer than its land borders
Measured around every fjord, Norway's mainland shore runs roughly 29,000 kilometres The figure grows enormously if every offshore island is included, pushing the total past 100,000 kilometres. Land borders with Sweden, Finland and Russia add up to only a few thousand kilometres. Coastal shipping uses the sheltered inside route rather than sailing the open sea. It sits in Mondo's world geography collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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Norway's coastline is longer than its land borders: the short answers
- Where does this come from, and can I check it?
- Measured around every fjord, Norway's mainland shore runs roughly 29,000 kilometres. The figure is taken from CIA World Factbook, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
- Is this really a world geography fact?
- Yes. It sits on the World Geography shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
- What else can I read about it?
- The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.