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| | OSLO, |
 | | city, SE Norway, capital of the country, seat of Oslo Co. (with which it is coextensive) and of Akershus Co., on the Aker R., at the head of Oslofjord. |
 | | Oslo is predominantly modern in design and architecture and is noted for its many museums, parks, and public statues. |
 | | In the city are the University of Oslo (1811), which includes museums of ethnography, mineralogy, national antiquities, paleontology, and zoology; colleges of architecture, theology, veterinary medicine, fine arts, and music; the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (1857); the Norwegian Nobel Institute, which helps select the winner of the |
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