Country

Norway

Also Known As Kingdom of Norway

Northern Europe

Norway comprises the western and northernmost parts of the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe, plus remote Arctic islands, sharing a long eastern border with Sweden and bordered by Finland and Russia to the northeast. Its constitution was adopted in 1814, and it became fully sovereign on the peaceful dissolution of its union with Sweden in 1905. It is a unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy. Its capital is Oslo. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts

Capital

Oslo 2

Population

5,627,400 2

2026 estimate, from Norway's own Wikipedia infobox.

Population Estimate Year

2026 2

Area (sq km)

385,207 2

Independence or Founding Year

1905 2

Norway's modern constitution was adopted on 17 May 1814 on separation from Denmark; full sovereignty followed the peaceful dissolution of its union with Sweden on 7 June 1905. The kingdom itself traces to the unification of Norway around 872.

Classification

Sovereignty Status

UN Member State 1

Norway

Regions

Svalbard

Norway

Associated With

Norway is one of the three Nordic monarchies also called Scandinavia in the narrow sense.

Source Nordic Countries (Wikipedia)

Northern Europe

Romsdalsfjord

Scandinavia

Scandinavian Peninsula

The Arctic

Trondheimsfjord

Bordered By Water

Barents Sea

Greenland Sea

North Sea

Source North Sea (Wikipedia)

Norwegian Sea

Skagerrak

Has Capital

Oslo

Oslo is the capital of Norway.

Source Oslo (Wikipedia)

Long-Form Articles

How Norway kept its own constitution inside a union with Sweden

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Norway

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Edvard Munch

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Henrik Ibsen

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Per Krohg

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Krohg, Per (Norwegian painter, costume designer, and scenographer, 1889-1965)

Arne Solvberg

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Håkon Wium Lie

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Harald Tveit Alvestrand

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John Krogstie

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Kristen Nygaard

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Kristen Nygaard (27 August 1926 – 10 August 2002) was a Norwegian computer scientist, programming language pioneer, and politician.

Ole-Christoffer Granmo

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Ole-Johan Dahl

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Trygve Reenskaug

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Fridtjof Nansen

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Harald Sverdrup

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Jacob Bjerknes

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Victor Moritz Goldschmidt

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Vilhelm Bjerknes

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Ragnar Frisch

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Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch (3 March 1895 – 31 January 1973) was an influential Norwegian economist and econometrician known for being one of the major contributors to establishing economics as a quantitative and statistically informed science in the early 20th century.

Andreas Christian Møller

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Ivar Lovaas

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Dag Johan Haugerud

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Gro Harlem Brundtland

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Gro Brundtland (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈɡruː ˈhɑ̀ːlɛm ˈbrʉ̀ntlɑnː]; née Harlem; born 20 April 1939), known as Gro Harlem Brundtland, is a Norwegian stateswoman and former physician, who thrice served as the Prime Minister of Norway (1981, 1986–1989, and 1990–1996), and as the leader of the Labour Party from 1981 to 1992, and as the director-general of the World Health Organization from 1998 to 2003.

Arnfinn Bårdsen

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Edvard Hambro

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Erik Mose

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Frederik Beichmann

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Helge Klaestad

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Inger Louise Valle

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Jens Evensen

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Nanna Meyer

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Johanne Marie "Nanna" Meyer (1863–1958) was a Norwegian jurist and civil servant.

Nikolas Sigurdsson Paus

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Rolv Ryssdal

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Sverre Erik Jebens

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Toril Marie Oie

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Toril Marie Øie (born 1960) is a Norwegian jurist who serves as the 20th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Norway since 2016.

Valentin Voss

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Henrik Ibsen

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Jo Nesbø

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Knut Hamsun

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Sigrid Undset

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Atle Selberg

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Atle Selberg was a Norwegian mathematician known for his work in analytic number theory and on discrete groups and automorphic forms.

Ludwig Sylow

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Born 12 December 1832 Christiania (now Oslo), Norway

Niels Henrik Abel

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Øystein Ore

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Øystein Ore was a Norwegian mathematician

Sophus Lie

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was a Norwegian mathematician

Thoralf Skolem

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Viggo Brun

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Dagfinn Aarskog

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Dagfinn Aarskog (10 December 1928 – 27 May 2014) was a Norwegian physician, geneticist, and professor of pediatrics.

Egil Tynæs

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(12 August 1941 – 2 June 2004) was a Norwegian anthroposophical doctor

Kalle Reichelt

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was a Norwegian medical researcher

Atle Selberg

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Nordic Classicism was a style of architecture that briefly blossomed in the Nordic countries (Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland) between 1910 and 1930.

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Per Krohg

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Åsgårdstrand, Norway

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A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence

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An international co-production with Denmark, France, Norway, and Sweden, it follows the story of a man under the alias Amin Nawabi, Rasmussen's high school friend, who shares his hidden past of fleeing his home country of Afghanistan to Denmark for the first time.

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Hunger

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Arne Dekke Eide Næss ( AR-nə NESS; Urban East Norwegian: [ˈɑ̂ːɳə ˈdɛ̂kːə ˈæ̂ɪdə ˈnɛsː]; 27 January 1912 – 12 January 2009) was a Norwegian philosopher who coined the term "deep ecology", an important intellectual and inspirational figure within the environmental movement of the late twentieth century, and a prolific writer on many other philosophical issues.

Herman Cappelen

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Herman Wright Cappelen (born 1967) is a Norwegian philosopher.

Kristin Gjesdal

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Kristin Gjesdal is a Norwegian philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at Temple University.

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Reidar Krummradt Lie (born 1954) is a Norwegian philosopher and emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Bergen.

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Bygdøy Royal Estate

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Bygdøy Royal Estate (Norwegian: Bygdøy kongsgård), also known as the Bygdø Royal Farm, is a Kongsgård estate and manor house that occupies a large part of the northwestern part of the Bygdøy peninsula in Oslo, Norway.

Knivsflå

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Nittedal Station

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Oslo Airport

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Oslo Airport (IATA: OSL, ICAO: ENGM) — alternatively referred to as Oslo Gardermoen Airport or simply Gardermoen — is an international airport serving Oslo, the capital and most populous city of Norway.

Oslo Opera House

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Rimul

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Skageflå

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Skaugum

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Storting Building

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The building is located at Karl Johans gate 22 in central Oslo, Norway.

Villa Filipstad

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Villa Grande (Oslo)

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Christianssands Bryggeri

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Drammens Glassverk

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Equinor ASA

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Equinor ASA (formerly Statoil and StatoilHydro) is a Norwegian multinational energy company headquartered in Stavanger, Norway.

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Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace

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Kongsberg Gruppen

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Mack Brewery

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Magnor Glassverk

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Nammo

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Norwegian Air Shuttle

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