Kingdom of Norway

Kingdom of Norway Kongeriket Norge  (Norwegian Bokmål) Kongeriket Noreg  (Norwegian Nynorsk)
Flag Coat of arms
Anthem:  Ja, vi elsker dette landet  (de facto) Yes, we love this country Royal anthem: Kongesangen The King's Song
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) Sami Northern Sami Lule Sami Southern Sami (Official in 9 municipalities)
Recognised regional languages	Kven Tavringer Romani
Writing system	Latin (Dano-Norwegian alphabet)
Ethnic groups	83.7%Norwegians 16.3%Immigrants Other without official statistics: Indigenous: Sami Minorities: Jews Travellers Forest Finns Romani Kvens
Religion	Church of Norway
Demonym	Norwegian Norwegian: Nordmann
Government	Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy
• Monarch	Harald V
• Prime Minister	Erna Solberg
• President of the Storting	Olemic Thommessen
• Chief Justice	Toril Marie Øie
Legislature	Storting
History
• Establishment prior unification	872
• Norwegian Empire (Greatest indep. extent)	1263
• Kalmar Union	1397
• Denmark-Norway	1524
• Self-proclaimed independent	25 February 1814
• Constitution	17 May 1814
• Sweden-Norway	4 November 1814
• Dissolution of Sweden-Norway	7 June 1905
• German occupation	9 April 1940
• Reichskommissariat Norwegen	24 April 1940
• Quisling regime	1 February 1942
• Restoration from German occupation	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)	23.5 low · 1st
HDI (2014)	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
Includes Svalbard and Jan Mayen. (Without these two areas, the area of Norway is 323,802 km2, placing it 67th in the world.) 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). 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 (ⁱ/ˈnɔːrweɪ/ NAWR-way; Norwegian:  Norge (Bokmål) or  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 Isle of Man until 1266, Shetland and Orkney until 1468, and the following provinces, now in Sweden: Jämtland, Härjedalen and Bohuslän.