Editing Geography of Norway (section)

===Nemoral===
{{Unsourced section|date=December 2023}}[[File:Mandal. Strøkene Vestnes og litt av Støkkan.jpg|thumb|[[Mandal, Norway|Mandal]], the most southerly town in Norway, is in the nemoral zone.]]

A small area along the southern coast—from [[Soknedal Municipality]] in southern [[Rogaland]] and east to [[Fevik]] in [[Agder]] county (including Kristiansand)—belongs to the [[Nemoral]] vegetation zone. This zone is located below {{convert|150|m}} above sea level and at most {{convert|30|km}} inland along the valleys. This is the predominant vegetation zone in Europe north of southern France, the Alps, the Carpathians, and the Caucasus. The hallmark of this zone in Norway is the predominance of [[oak]] and the virtually complete lack of typical [[boreal ecosystem|boreal]] species such as Norway spruce and [[grey alder]], although a lowland variant of [[Scots pine|pine]] occurs. Nemoral covers a total of 0.5% of the land area (excluding Svalbard and Jan Mayen).