Norway Yearbook - 1996

Environment
1 7 Total area, distribution of area, and length of coastline1. County
County
Total
Distribution of
area, land - freshwater
Land
Freshwater,
lakes
Distribution of
area, continental -
islands
Continental
Islands
in the
ocean
Distribution of area by elevation tints
(metres above sea level)
O-299 300-599 600-899 900m
metres metres metres and over
Coastline
Continental
km2
km
Kingdom of Norway 385639* 367633* 18006* 301483 84157* 130096* 116073* 72279* 67190* 21465 43293*
Svalbard2 61 500* 61 000* 500* - 61 500* 27 000* 23000* 9000* 2 500* 7300*
Jan Mayen 381* 3380* 0* - 381* 175* 100* 50* 55* 200*
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Mainland 323 758 306 253 17 506 301 483 22276 102 921 92973 63 229 64635 21 465 35793
østfold 4183 3889 294 4033 150 4176 8 - 263 711
Akershus 4917 4587 329 4901 16 3900 958 59 - 152 117
Oslo 454 427 27 451 3 270 184 0 - 39 37
Hedmark 27388 26120 1268 27388 . 4465 8028 9403 5492
Oppland 25191 23827 1364 25191 . 1097 4012 5673 14409
Buskerud 14927 13856 1071 14925 2 2858 3280 2638 6151 116 23
Vestfold 2216 2140 76 2099 117 1975 240 1 351 628
Telemark 15315 14186 1129 15267 48 3654 3113 3637 4911 290 419
Aust-Agder 9212 8485 727 9108 104 3440 1958 1814 2000 432 781
Vest-Agder 7281 6817 464 7196 85 3065 2072 1735 409 717 730
Rogaland 9141 8553 588 8591 550 4110 1922 1835 1273 1217 1079
Hordaland 15634 14962 672 13549 2085 4548 2438 2725 5923 1853 3570
SognogFjordane 18620 17864 756 17927 692 4133 3542 3295 7650 2075 1772
MøreogRomsdal . 15104 14596 508 13382 1722 4919 3584 2592 4009 2066 4335
Sør-Trøndelag 18832 17839 992 17785 1046 5237 4885 5294 3416 1164 3891
Nord-Trøndelag 22396 20777 1 619 21 527 869 8 464 9072 4346 514 1 333 2 525
Nordland 38327 36302 2025 32137 6190 13845 10916 8772 4794 4369 9880
Troms 25984 25 147 837 20275 5708 8277 7244 6897 3 566 1 905 2956
Finnmark 48637 45879 2759 45749 2889 20487 25518 2513 119 3126 2342
Islands
Per cent
Kingdom of Norway 100.0 95.3 4.7 782 21.8 33.7 30.1 18.7 17.4
Svalbard 100.0 99.2 0.8 . 100.0 43.9 37.4 14.6 4.1
Jan Mayen 100.0 99.7 0.3 100.0 45.9 26.2 13.1 14.4
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Mainland 100.0 94.6 5.4 93.1 6.9 318 28.7 19.5 20.0
østfold 100.0 93.0 7.0 96.4 3.6 99.8 0.2 -
Akershus 100.0 93.3 6.7 99.7 0.3 79.3 19.5 1.2
Oslo 100.0 94.1 5.9 99.3 0.7 59.5 40.5 0.0
Hedmark 100.0 95.4 4.6 100.0 - 16.3 29.3 34.3 20.1
Oppland 100.0 94.6 5.4 100.0 - 4.4 15.9 22.5 57.2
Buskerud 100.0 92.8 7.2 100.0 0.0 19.5 21.7 17.6 41.2
Vestfold 100.0 96.6 3.4 94.7 5.3 89.1 10.9 0.0
Telemark 100.0 92.6 7.4 99.7 0.3 23.9 20.3 23.7 32.1
Aust-Agder 100.0 92.1 7.9 98.9 1.1 37.3 21.3 19.7 21.7
Vest-Agder 100.0 93.6 6.4 98.8 1.2 42.1 28.5 23.8 5.6
Rogaland 100.0 93.6 6.4 94.0 6.0 45.0 21.0 20.1 13.9
Hordaland 100.0 95.7 4.3 86.7 13.3 29.1 15.6 17.4 37.9
Sogn 0g Fjordane . . 100.0 95.9 4.1 96.3 3.7 22.2 19.0 17.7 41.1
Møreog Romsdal . . 100.0 96.6 3.4 88.6 11.4 32.6 23.7 17.2 26.5
Sør-Trøndelag 100.0 94.7 5.3 94.5 5.6 27.8 26.0 28.1 18.1
Nord-Trendelag 100.0 92.8 7.2 96.1 3.9 37.8 40.5 19.4 2.3
Nordland 100.0 94.7 5.3 83.8 16.2 36.1 28.5 22.9 12.5
Troms 100.0 96.8 3.2 78.0 22.0 31.9 27.9 26.5 13.7
Finnmark 100.0 94.3 5.7 94.1 5.9 42.1 52.5 5.2 0.2
1All figures for mainland and countries. Area figures are rounded f(gures based on municipal figures with two decimals. 2Preliminary data,
since data processing has not been finished. 3lncluding 38000 km and 115 km2 of glaciers, on Svalbard and Jan Mayen, respectively.
Source: The Norwegian Mapping Authority 1996 and Norwegian Polar Institute 1996. More information: Division for Population and Education
Statistics.
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