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The official country name in conventional long form is the Kingdom of Norway. Norge is the local short form. The capital of Norway is Oslo. Norway is situated far to the north in the western corner of Europe bordering the North Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean. Norway shares borders with Sweden, Finland and Russia. The Kingdom of Norway, in addition to the mainland, includes the Svalbard archipelago and Jan Mayen. Norway also has territories in the Antarctic region. These are Bouvet Island and Peter I Island. The size of Norway is slightly larger that New Mexico. The geographical conditions do not favor internal communication in Norway. The terrain is two-thirds mountains and there are nearly 50,000 islands off its coastline. High mountains, glaciers with high plateaus deep fjords, and arctic tundra in the north make communication difficult (www.odci.gov.)Norway's natural resources include petroleum, copper, natural gas, pyrites, nickel, iron ore, zinc, lead, fish, timber, and hydropower. Current environmental issues include: water pollution; acid rain damaging forests and adversely affecting lakes, threatening fish stocks; air pollution from vehicle emissions (www.odci.gov.)
There have been changes in the local and regional levels. Local radio stations and local TV have been a success. At the regional level, newspapers have fared well. Nationally, the NRK has increased the number of channels from one to three and the two national tabloids, the VG and Dagbladet, have increased circulation. Currently, NRK faces competition from local television and radio stations. I think that I have come away from my research and this paper with a great understanding of how the country runs and the political effects on the media. I have found the most popular forms of media in Norway such as newspapers, television, and radio to still have some regulation by the government. I also was able to draw some comparisons with Norway and the United States on issues such as subsidies, advertising and regulation. In the past years, Internet has spread and more people are learning English as their first foreign language. (http://odin.dep.no/ud/publ/1998/statistikk/en/title.html). Every Norwegian has the right to vote from the age of 18. Norway was one of the first countries in the world to allow women to vote, which occurred in 1913. Since this period, Norway has come a long way in ensuring equal rights for men and women (www.odin.dep.no).
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