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Norway (Bokmål: Norge, Nynorsk: Noreg), formally the Kingdom of Norway,[a] is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of Norway.[note 5] Bouvet Island, located in the Subantarctic, is a dependency; Norway also claims the Antarctic territories of Peter I Island and Queen Maud Land. The capital and largest city in Norway is Oslo.

This article is about the European country. For other uses, see Norway (disambiguation).

Kingdom of Norway
Other official names

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17 May 1814

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385,207 km2 (148,729 sq mi)[12] (61stb)

5.32 (2015)[13]

Neutral increase 5,550,203[14] (118th)

14.4/km2 (37.3/sq mi) (213th)

2024 estimate

Increase $461.107 billion[15] (51st)

Increase $82,832[15] (8th)

2024 estimate

Increase $526.951 billion[15] (27th)

Increase $94,660[15] (3rd)

Positive decrease 25.3[16]
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Increase 0.966[17]
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Norway has a total area of 385,207 square kilometres (148,729 sq mi)[12] and had a population of 5,488,984 in January 2023.[14] The country shares a long eastern border with Sweden. It is bordered by Finland and Russia to the northeast and the Skagerrak strait to the south. Norway has an extensive coastline facing the North Atlantic Ocean and the Barents Sea. Harald V of the House of Glücksburg is the current King of Norway. Jonas Gahr Støre has been Prime Minister of Norway since 2021. As a unitary state with a constitutional monarchy, Norway divides state power between the parliament, the cabinet, and the supreme court, as determined by the 1814 constitution. The unified kingdom of Norway was established in 872 as a merger of petty kingdoms and has existed continuously for 1151–1152 years. From 1537 to 1814, Norway was part of Denmark–Norway, and, from 1814 to 1905, it was in a personal union with Sweden. Norway was neutral during the First World War, and in the Second World War until April 1940 when it was invaded and occupied by Nazi Germany until the end of the war.


Norway has both administrative and political subdivisions on two levels: counties and municipalities. The Sámi people have a certain amount of self-determination and influence over traditional territories through the Sámi Parliament and the Finnmark Act. Norway maintains close ties with the European Union and the United States. Norway is a founding member of the United Nations, NATO, the European Free Trade Association, the Council of Europe, the Antarctic Treaty, and the Nordic Council; a member of the European Economic Area, the WTO, and the OECD; and a part of the Schengen Area. The Norwegian dialects share mutual intelligibility with Danish and Swedish.


Norway maintains the Nordic welfare model with universal health care and a comprehensive social security system, and its values are rooted in egalitarian ideals.[20] The Norwegian state has large ownership positions in key industrial sectors, having extensive reserves of petroleum, natural gas, minerals, lumber, seafood, and fresh water. The petroleum industry accounts for around a quarter of the country's gross domestic product (GDP).[21] On a per-capita basis, Norway is the world's largest producer of oil and natural gas outside of the Middle East.[22][23] The country has the fourth- and eight highest per-capita income in the world on the World Bank's and IMF's list, respectively.[24] It has the world's largest sovereign wealth fund, with a value of US$1.3 trillion.[25][26]

485,500 (49.5%) have a Western background (Europe, US, Canada and Oceania).

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493,700 (50.5%) have a non-Western background (Asia, Africa, South and Central America).

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in Oslo

1952 Winter Olympics

in Lillehammer

1994 Winter Olympics

Outline of Norway

official Norwegian government website

regjeringen.no

Norway's official portal

Norway.no

at Curlie

Norway

Statistics Norway

State of the Environment Norway

entry at Britannica.com

Norway

(1884). "Norway" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. XVII (9th ed.). pp. 575–592.

Gosse, Edmund William

; and four others (1911). "Norway" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 19 (11th ed.). pp. 799–818.

Gosse, Edmund William

(1922). "Norway" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 31 (12th ed.).

Hammer, Simon Christian

from UCB Libraries GovPubs

Norway

from the BBC News

Norway profile

official foreign portal of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Norway.info

Wikimedia Atlas of Norway

Geographic data related to at OpenStreetMap

Norway

Official facts about Norway

official travel guide to Norway.

VisitNorway.com

on YouTube

National Anthem of Norway

from International Futures

Key Development Forecasts for Norway

World Bank Summary Trade Statistics Norway