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Europe > Norway > Government

NORWEGIAN GOVERNMENT STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Capital city Oslo
Corruption 8.9 [8th of 160]
Parliamentary seats > Female 36% [4th of 143]
Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament > % 37.9 % ... [5th of 174]
Start-up procedures to register a business > number 4 ... [162nd of 171]
Status
democracy
Suffrage
18 years of age; universal
Time required to build a warehouse > days 104 days ... [151st of 168]
Time required to enforce a contract > days 277 days ... [143rd of 171]
Time required to register property > days 1 days ... [167th of 167]
Time required to start a business > days 13 days ... [150th of 171]
Time to prepare and pay taxes > hours 87 hours ... [157th of 169]
Time to resolve insolvency > years 0.9 years ... [146th of 151]
Total businesses registered > number 321,874 ... [29th of 71]
Trademarks, nonresidents 6,981 ... [16th of 99]
Trademarks, residents 3,316 ... [34th of 98]
Transnational Issues > Disputes > International
Norway asserts a territorial claim in Antarctica (Queen Maud Land and its continental shelf); despite dialogue, Russia and Norway continue to dispute their maritime limits in the Barents Sea and Russia's fishing rights beyond Svalbard's territorial limits within the Svalbard Treaty zone
UN membership date 27 Nov. 1945
United Nations mission
http://www.norway-un.org/
Washington, D.C. embassies > Neighborhood Embassy Row

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SOURCES: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; Transparency International; United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook; World Development Indicators database; electionworld.org; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; Wisconsin High School Model United Nations; Wikipedia: List of Washington, D.C. embassies

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Norway, Kingdom of Norway, Kongeriket Norge, Norge

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FARHANA KABIR
24th July 2005
There is a woman perlament member in Norway whose origin is Bangladesh.I want to contract with her.Please give me her contract details.
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