Norway

Norway (Norwegian: Norge (Bokmål) or Noreg (Nynorsk)), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a sovereign and unitary monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the island Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard. The country has a total area of 385,252 square kilometres (148,747 sq mi) and a population of 5,213,985 (May 2016). The country shares a long eastern border with Sweden (1,619 km or 1,006 mi long). Norway is bordered by Finland and Russia to the north-east, and the Skagerrak Strait to the south, with Denmark on the other side. Norway has an extensive coastline, facing the North Atlantic Ocean and the Barents Sea.
== Links To Peel ==
Peel revealed that he drove inside the bottom corner of Norway during his Scandinavian road trip on his 27 April 1987 show where he mentioned seeing the beauty of the Norwegian lakes and countryside with no people around. He also wanted to go back there to explore more of the country, but was advised that it was more expensive than Sweden and Denmark.
Georg Kajanus (Hultgreen), main songwriter of the band Eclection, who did four sessions for Peel in 1968-69. was usually described as Norwegian in articles on the group, who were renowned for their multi-national background. Although Kajanus himself came from an international family (his father was a Russian prince, his mother a Finn), he was born in Norway and spent the first twelve years of his life in the country. 
Also in 1968, Peel had Harald Are Lund (Harry Lund), a Norwegian radio presenter whose career followed a similar path to his own, as a guest on two Night Ride programmes (24 July 1968 and 31 July 1968). On the first of these shows he played a track by the Norwegian band Difference, but it seemed to be a one-off; they did not appear elsewhere in his playlists.
== Sessions ==
The following artists from Norway recorded sessions for the John Peel Show:
* Noxagt: (1 session, 2004)
== See Also ==
*Bel Canto
*Biosphere
*Countries
*Difference
*Finn Kalvik
*Harald Are Lund
*Turbonegro
== External Links ==
* Wikipedia
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