Norway Museum with Whale in Front of It

Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of Norway. Bouvet Island, located in the Subantarctic, is a dependency, and not a part of the Kingdom; Norway also claims the …
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of Norway. Bouvet Island, located in the Subantarctic, is a dependency, and not a part of the Kingdom; Norway also claims the Antarctic territories of Peter I Island and Queen Maud Land. Norway has a population of 5.6 million. Its capital and largest city is Oslo. The country has a total area of 385,207 square kilometres. The country shares a long eastern border with Sweden, and is bordered by Finland and Russia to the northeast. Norway has an extensive coastline facing the Skagerrak strait, the North Atlantic Ocean, and the Barents Sea.
  • Official languages: Norwegian · Sámi
  • Government: Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy
  • Legislature: Storting
  • Currency: Norwegian krone (NOK)
  • Capital and largest city: Oslo
  • Calling code: +47
  • Religion (2024): 68.5% Christianity · 61.7% Church of Norway · 6.8% other Christian · 27.3% no religion · 3.4% Islam · 0.8% other

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Data from: en.wikipedia.org