- Official name
- Kingdom of Norway Kongeriket Norge · Norwegian (Bokmål)
2 more names
Kongeriket Noreg · Norwegian (Nynorsk)Norgga gonagasriika · Sami - Capital
- Oslo
- Region
- Northern Europe
- Population (2018 est.)
- ≈ 5.3 million
- Area
- 323,802 km²
- Currency
- Norwegian krone (NOK)
- Neighbours
- Finland, Sweden, Russia
- Internet / phone
- .no · +47
Where it is
Notable facts
- Norway’s mainland coastline is about 2,500 km, but including fjords and islands it exceeds 100,000 km.
- It has one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds, built on North Sea oil and gas.
- Norway gave the world the modern ski, the cheese slicer and the paperclip’s popular attribution.
- The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a backup for the world’s crop diversity, is dug into a mountain on Spitsbergen.
World Heritage 8 sites
National dish
Fårikål Mutton and cabbage layered with whole peppercorns and cooked slowly in very little water.
Chosen as the national dish in a radio vote in 1972, and defended in another in 2014. It has its own day, the last Thursday in September.