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Norway

Kingdom of Norway
Flag of Norway
Coat of arms of Norway
Flag Coat of arms
Anthem: 
Location of the  Kingdom of Norway  (dark green)in Europe  (dark grey)
Location of the  Kingdom of Norway  (dark green)

in Europe  (dark grey)

Location of the Kingdom of Norway and its integral overseas areas and dependencies: Svalbard, Jan Mayen, Bouvet Island, Peter I Island and Queen Maud Land
Capital
and largest city
Oslo
59°56′N 10°41′E / 59.933°N 10.683°E / 59.933; 10.683
Official languages Norwegian
(Bokmål / Nynorsk)
Recognised regional languages
Writing system Latin (Dano-Norwegian alphabet)
Ethnic groups
Demonym Norwegian
Norwegian: Nordmann
Government Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy
• Monarch
Harald V
Erna Solberg
Olaf Michael Thommessen
Toril Marie Øie
Legislature Storting
History
872
• Norwegian Empire (Greatest indep. extent)
1263
1397
1524
25 February 1814
17 May 1814
4 November 1814
7 June 1905
9 April 1940
24 April 1940
1 February 1942
8 May 1945
Area
• Total
385,178 km2 (148,718 sq mi) (61sta)
• Water (%)
5.2b
Population
• 1 October 2016 estimate
5,252,166
• 2015 census
5,214,890
• Density
15.5/km2 (40.1/sq mi) (213th)
GDP (PPP) 2016 estimate
• Total
$364.685 billion (46th)
• Per capita
$69,296 (4th)
GDP (nominal) 2016 estimate
• Total
$376.268 billion (22nd)
• Per capita
$71,497 (3rd)
Gini (2014) Negative increase 23.5
low · 1st
HDI (2014) Increase 0.944
very high · 1st
Currency Norwegian krone (NOK)
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)
CEST (UTC+2)
Date format dd.mm.yyyy
Drives on the right
Calling code +47
ISO 3166 code NO
Internet TLD .noc
  1. Includes Svalbard and Jan Mayen. (Without these two areas, the area of Norway is 323,802 km2, placing it 67th in the world.)
  2. This percentage is for the mainland, Svalbard, and Jan Mayen. This percentage counts glaciers as "land". It's calculated as 19,940.14/(365,246.17+19,940.14).
  3. Two more TLDs have been assigned, but are not used: .sj for Svalbard and Jan Mayen; .bv for Bouvet Island.
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Decreasing oil production

in Europe  (dark grey)

Norway (Listeni/ˈnɔːrw/ NAWR-way; Norwegian: About this sound Norge (Bokmål) or About this sound Noreg (Nynorsk)), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a sovereign and unitary monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the island Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard. The Antarctic Peter I Island and the sub-Antarctic Bouvet Island are dependent territories and thus not considered part of the Kingdom. Norway also lays claim to a section of Antarctica known as Queen Maud Land. Until 1814, the Kingdom included the Faroe Islands (since 1035), Greenland (1261), and Iceland (1262). It also included Shetland and Orkney until 1468. It also included the following provinces, now in Sweden: Jämtland, Härjedalen, Särna-Idre and Bohuslän.


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