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=== Miscellaneous honours === Still a prince at the time, Harald visited [[Mococa]] in the 1960s, receiving the title [https://sapl.mococa.sp.leg.br/norma/6862 "Cidadão Mocoquense"] on 28 February 1964. Harald V received an honorary degree of [[Doctor of Civil Law]] from Oxford University in 2006 (as did his father, King Olav, in 1937, and his grandfather, King Haakon, in 1943).<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.vg.no/pub/vgart.hbs?artid=147553|title=Her blir Kong Harald æresdoktor i Oxford|language=no|trans-title=Here King Harald becomes an honorary doctor in Oxford|date=16 November 2006|newspaper=[[Verdens Gang]]|location=Oslo|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016151105/http://www.vg.no/pub/vgart.hbs?artid=147553|archive-date=16 October 2007}}</ref> The King also received honorary doctorates from [[Heriot-Watt University]] in Scotland in 1994,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www1.hw.ac.uk/graduation/honorary-graduates.htm|title=Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh: Honorary Graduates|website=[[Heriot-Watt University]]|access-date=4 April 2016|archive-date=18 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160418163907/http://www1.hw.ac.uk/graduation/honorary-graduates.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> the [[University of Strathclyde]] in Scotland in 1985, [[Waseda University]] in Japan in 2001, and [[Pacific Lutheran University]] in Tacoma, Washington, in 2015.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.plu.edu/president/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2019/09/honorary-doctorate-history-09-18-19.pdf|title=Honorary Degrees|website=[[Pacific Lutheran University]]|page=7|access-date=31 July 2020|archive-date=22 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191022095424/https://www.plu.edu/president/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2019/09/honorary-doctorate-history-09-18-19.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> He is also an honorary fellow at [[Balliol College, Oxford]]. *{{flag|Ireland}} – Freedom of the City of [[Cork (city)|Cork]] *Spirit of Luther Award, awarded by [[Luther College (Iowa)|Luther College]] of [[Decorah, IA]] *A 230,000 km<sup>2</sup> area in [[Antarctica]] is named [[Prince Harald Coast]] in his honour. *In 2007 King Harald was awarded the [[Holmenkollen medal]] with [[Simon Ammann]], [[Frode Estil]], [[Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset]], and his wife [[Queen Sonja]]. *{{flag|Portugal}} – Key of Honor to the City of [[Lisbon]], on 28 May 2008<ref>{{cite web|title=State Visit continues|url=http://www.royalcourt.no/nyhet.html?tid=72220|publisher=The Royal House of Norway|access-date=16 March 2014|archive-date=16 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140316034133/http://www.royalcourt.no/nyhet.html?tid=72220|url-status=dead}}</ref> *In 2013, a 6,500 km<sup>2</sup> area in [[Svalbard]] was named Harald V Land.<ref>{{cite news|title=New land area named after King Harald|url=http://www.norwaypost.no/index.php/news/latest-news/28999-new-land-area-named-after-king-harald|agency=[[NRK]]|newspaper=The Norway Post|date=23 September 2013|access-date=11 October 2013|archive-date=12 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012035804/http://www.norwaypost.no/index.php/news/latest-news/28999-new-land-area-named-after-king-harald|url-status=live}}</ref>
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