Explore Norway in Europe - Norway Tourism Info

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.

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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 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 country consists of 19 regions/states which are listed below.

Regions/States of Norway

Norwegian Tourism Information

Official Tourism Office

Website: Norway Tourism

P.O. Box 722
Sentrum
NO-0105 Oslo
Norway

Phone: +47 24 14 46 00
Fax: +47 24 14 46 01

Unesco World Heritage Properties

Norway has 1 more world heritage locations. To see all of them, visit the Norway Unesco Heritage location overview.

Bryggen

Bryggen, the old wharf of Bergen, is a reminder of the town’s importance as part of the Hanseatic League’s trading empire from the 14th to the mid-16th century. Many fires, the last in...

Rock Art of Alta

This group of petroglyphs in the Alta Fjord, near the Arctic Circle, bears the traces of a settlement dating from c. 4200 to 500 B.C. The thousands of paintings and engravings add to our...

Røros Mining Town and the Circumference

Røros Mining Town and the Circumference is linked to the copper mines, established in the 17th century and exploited for 333 years until 1977. The site comprises the Town and its...

Urnes Stave Church

The wooden church of Urnes (the stavkirke) stands in the natural setting of Sogn og Fjordane. It was built in the 12th and 13th centuries and is an outstanding example of traditional Scandinavian...

Vegaøyan -- The Vega Archipelago

A cluster of dozens of islands centred on Vega, just south of the Arctic Circle, forms a cultural landscape of 103,710 ha, of which 6,930 ha is land. The islands bear testimony to a distinctive...

Demographic Information

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.

Natural Population Growth

Population, Migration and Growth: The population in Norway is growing at an rate of 0.33% (or by 15,619 citizens). Each year 7,950 people enter this country (or 1.70 per thousand citizens) - making it an immigration country. This leads to an absolute natural increase rate of the population of 0.16%. Or an total increase of 7,669 citizens.

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Geographic information is based on the data provided by geonames.org, CIA factsbook and Unesco.