Norway Yearbook - 2003

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Environment
21 Total area, distribution of area and length of coastline1, by county
Total
Distribution of area,
land - freshwater
Land
Distribution of area,
continental - islands
Freshwater,
Continental
lakes
Islands
in the
ocean
Distribution of area by elevation tints
(metres above sea level)
O-299 300-599 600-899 900 m
metres metres metres and over
Coastline
Continental
.
.
km2
km
Kingdom of
Norway 385155 367254 17900 301483 83672 129368 115963 72190 67665 25148 67112
Svalbard 61020 260625 395 61020 26450 22960 8970 2670
Jan Mayen 377
2377
0 377 171 102 47 57 150
.
Mainland 323 758 306 252 17 505 301 483 22275 102 747 92901 63 173 64938 25 148 58 133
østfold 4183 3889 294 4033 150 4176 8 0 0 382 866
Akershus 4917 4587 329 4901 16 3900 958 59 0 163 138
Oslo 454 427 27 451 3 270 184 0 0 39 39
Hedmark 27388 26120 1268 27388 0 4465 8028 9403 5492 0 0
Oppland 25191 23827 1 364 25191 0 1097 4012 5673 14409 0 0
Buskerud 14927 13856 1071 14925 2 2808 3204 2606 6309 123 33
Vestfold 2216 2140 76 2099 117 1975 240 1 0 409 899
Telemark 15315 14186 1129 15267 48 3654 3113 3637 4911 352 665
Aust-Agder 9212 8485 727 9108 104 3440 1958 1814 2000 556 1102
Vest-Agder 7281 6817 464 7196 85 3065 2072 1735 409 910 1230
Rogaland 9325 8735 591 8773 552 4224 1988 1 840 1273 1553 2293
Hordaland 15449 14780 669 13367 2083 4434 2372 2721 5923 2237 6504
SognogFjordane. 18619 17863 756 17927 692 4009 3547 3270 7794 2482 3755
MøreogRomsdal 15105 14597 508 13382 1722 4919 3585 2592 4009 2270 5498
Sør-Trøndelag 18832 17839 992 17785 1046 5237 4885 5294 3416 1353 5214
Nord-Trøndelag 22396 20777 619 21 527 869 8464 9072 4346 514 1 743 4594
. . 1
Nordland 38463 36434 2029 32137 6326 13941 10950 8777 4794 5087 17934
Troms 25848 25015 833 20275 5572 8181 7210 6892 3566 1801 4219
FinnmarkFinnmárku 48637 45879 2759 45749 2889 20487 25518 2513 119 3688 3153
Islands
.
.
Per cent
Kingdom of
Norway 100.0 95.4 4.6 78.3 21.7 33.6 30.1 18.7 17.6 100.0
Svalbard 100.0 99.4 0.6 100.0 43.3 37.6 14.7 4.4 100.0
Jan Mayen 100.0 99.9 0.1 100.0 45.4 27.1 12.5 15.1 100.0
.
.
Mainland 100.0 94.6 5.4 93.1 6.9 31.7 28.7 19.5 20.1 100.0
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 94.0 6.0 99.4 0.6 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 18.8 21.5 17.5 42.3
Vestfold 100.0 96.6 3.4 94.7 5.3 89.2 10.8 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 93.7 6.3 94.1 5.9 45.3 21.3 19.7 13.7
Hordaland 100.0 95.7 4.3 86.5 13.5 28.7 15.4 17.6 38.3
Sogn og Fjordane. . . 100.0 95.9 4.1 96.3 3.7 21.5 19.0 17.6 41.9
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 94.4 5.6 27.8 25.9 28.1 18.1
Nord-Trøndelag . . . 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 83.6 16.4 36.2 28.5 22.8 12.5
Troms 100.0 96.8 3.2 78.4 21.6 31.6 27.9 26.7 13.8
Finnmark Finnmárku 100.0 94.3 5.7 94.1 5.9 42.1 52.5 5.2 0.2
All figures for the mainland and counties are rounded figures based on municipal figures with two decimals. New calculations for length of
the coast line for the mainland. 2lncluding 36 500 and 125 km2 of glaciers on Svalbard and Jan Mayen, respectively.
Source: The Norwegian Mapping Authority and Norwegian Polar Institute. More information: http://wvvw.statkart.no/
and http:/M.npolar.no/
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