Norway, Alaska, Chile, New Zealand…. All west coasts
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From Wikipedia: The fjords develop best in mountain ranges against which the prevailing westerly marine winds are orographically lifted over the mountainous regions, resulting in abundant snowfall to feed the glaciers. Hence coasts having the most pronounced fjords include the west coast of Norway, the west coast of North America from Puget Sound to Alaska, the southwest coast of New Zealand, and the west and to south-western coasts of South America, chiefly in Chile.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fjord
Fjords need three things:
trade winds (blowing inland from the ocean)
a coastal mountain range
a glacier
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This greatly limits the number of possible places that a fjord can form – and because the trade winds blow into the west coast near the poles (where the glaciers are) all the fjords will be on the west coast until such a time as you get glaciers in equatorial east coast mountain ranges (central america, the horn of africa, and indonesia) – which doesn’t seem likely unless we start a rather severe ice age (say, by nuking ourselves into oblivion)
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