Norway Country Info - Europe

Description and Basic Information

Norway with its capital Oslo is located in Europe (Northern Europe, bordering the North Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean). It covers some 324,221 square kilometres (slightly larger than New Mexico) with 4,644,000 citizens. Norwegian, Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk are the languages used by people in Norway (consider regional differences). Finland, Russia and Sweden are bordering countries.

Norway s the westernmost, northernmost — and in fact the easternmost — of the three Scandinavian countries. Best known for the complex and deep fjords along its west coast, it stretches from the North Sea near Denmark and Scotland into the Arctic Ocean where it borders northern Finland and the northwestern tip of Russia. Norway is well known for its amazing and varied scenery. The fjords in the west of the country are long narrow inlets, flanked on either side by tall mountains where the sea penetrates far inland. The vast majority of the land is a rocky wilderness, and thus Norway has large, completely unpopulated areas, many of which have been converted to national parks. Even outside the national parks, much of the land is unspoiled nature.

Pictures from Capital (Oslo)

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About Norway

The topography featuresglaciated with mostly high plateaus and rugged mountains broken by fertile valleys, small, scattered plains, coastline deeply indented by fjords and arctic tundra in north. The average density of population is about 14 per km². The climate in Norway can be described as temperate along coast, modified by North Atlantic Current with colder interior with increased precipitation and colder summers, rainy year-round on west coast. Potential natural disasters are rockslides, avalanches.

To reach someone in Norway dial +47 prior to a number. There are 1,900,000 installed telephones. And there are 5,336,000 registered mobile phones. The cellular networks operate on frequencies of Mhz. Websites typically end with the top level domain ".no". The following list are the 19 regions/states in Norway we know off.

Demographic Statistics

In the year 2010, the total Norwegian population grew at a rate of 0.33% (or by 15,619 citizens). With 43,303 deaths and 50,972 babies born, the natural increase rate lies at 0.16%. 7,950 persons more in total immigrated to the country than emmigrated.

An overview of age distribution in Norway: Each pair of bars represents a single age group (male/female). Each group is spanning 5 years. E.g. 0 to 5 years, 5 to 10 etc. and group "0 to 5" being at the left end and "100 +" at the right end of the chart.

Based on content from wikitravel.org. The original article can be found here based on the work of these users.
Geographic information is based on the data provided by geonames.org, CIA factsbook and Unesco.