Norway
Norway (officially Kingdom of Norway) is a country in Northern Europe, with its capital at Oslo, and is home to roughly 5.6M people.
Its official languages are Norwegian Nynorsk, Norwegian Bokmål, Sami; the currency in circulation is Norwegian krone (kr); people from here are called Norwegian.
- »Norway's mainland coastline, counting fjords and islands, runs to over 100,000 km.
- »It generates nearly all its electricity from hydropower.
- »The Svalbard Global Seed Vault stores backup copies of the world's crop seeds.
Norway straddles the Arctic Circle.
Norway touches three neighbours: Finland to the east, Russia to the northeast and Sweden to the southeast. Directions run from one centre to the other.
Oslo was called Christiania for nearly three centuries after a fire, taking its old name back only in 1925. It is ringed by forest and fjord, with ski trails reachable by metro.
321,018 km² (123,946 sq mi), 68th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of the Ivory Coast.
Population 5,572,279, 118th of 198 on file. That averages 17 per km² (45 per sq mi).
A blue Nordic cross set inside a white one on red, combining the Danish and Swedish flags with the French tricolour's colours, a design chosen in 1821 to signal liberty.