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Norway has very diffrent terrain from neighbouring Sweden, she is practically all coastline. Not much easily logged forrest, no big lowland plains for large scale farming

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Norway has a lot of fishing going on, it was their main export before oil.

They were a very poor country before exporting oil.

True but coastal fishing is all but gone. Now they are competing with Russia, China and Japan on international waters.

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