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| Areas protected under the Nature Conservation Act |
| Number of protected areas | Area (including freshwater). km2 | Per cent of Norway1 | Per cent of protected area | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Total | 2 438 | 46 553 | 14.4 | 100 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National parks | 29 | 26 781 | 8.3 | 58 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Landscape protected areas2 | 181 | 15 075 | 4.7 | 32 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nature reserves | 1 821 | 4 266 | 1.3 | 9 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other protections3 | 407 | 432 | 0.1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Mainland excluding Svalbard, areas on Svalbard are protected according to the Svalbard law and are not included in the sum figures for protected areas. |
| 2 | Areas with flora- or fauna protections are also included. |
| 3 | Include flora and fauna protection areas (biotop protections), nature relics with an area protection and biotops protected by the Act relating to Salmonids and Fresh-water Fish and the Wildlife Act. |