Oct 7, 2009, 14:33 GMT
Oslo - Tourists to Norway can now visit two new national parks.
The mountainous landscape of new national park Breheimen is situated in the districts of Oppland and Sogn og Fjordane. With an area of nearly 1,794 square kilometres, it is among the largest national parks in the country.
The other new national park, Ytre Hvaler, is on the Norwegian-Swedish border and is a 'unique maritime landscape' of more than 6,000 animal and plant species on the outer Oslo fjord.
In May Norway inaugurated another national park, Lomsdal-Visten, in Nordland county and five or six more projects are in the pipeline, a spokesperson for the tourist office said. There are now 32 natures reserves on the mainland as well as seven national parks on the island of Spitsbergen.
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