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Occupying the western part of Scandinavia, Norway's western coastline is characterized by numerous fjords and islands. Large oil and gas revenues have brought prosperity. Gro Harlem Brundtland, Norway's first woman prime minister, went on to take top UN posts. Despite the Europe-wide recession in the early 1990s, Norway was able to contain rising unemployment, which peaked at 6% in 1993. A constitutional requirement is that government creates conditions that enable every person to find work.