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Norway

Of the five Nobel Prizes, only the Peace Prize is awarded outside Stockholm: Alfred Nobel's will sent it to Oslo instead. Oil discovered in the North Sea in the 1960s funded a sovereign wealth fund that is now the largest in the world.

Geirangerfjord, a narrow fjord with steep green mountainsides and waterfalls in western Norway

Geirangerfjord, western Norway

Photo: Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0

A red field with the Scandinavian cross shared by its Nordic neighbors, with an added blue cross borrowed from Denmark's flag, a nod to the centuries Norway spent in union with Denmark before 1814.

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