Norway‘s coastline has been updated and is now officially the second longest in the world, with more than 2000 miles added to its length thanks to improved cartographic methods. The country has 1700 named fjords and a contorted maritime geography, which partly explains the increase in length. However, it is also due to the coastline paradox, which means that the more detailed a survey becomes, the longer the coastline appears. The previous estimate of Norway‘s coastline was about 57000km, but the latest calculations by ‘Kartverket’, the Norwegian equivalent of ‘Ordnance Survey’, now put it at 104600km. This new figure places Norway ahead of other countries with extensive coastlines, such as Russia, Australia, and the United States, but behind Canada, which has the longest seaboard.
