Kingdom of Norway

Oslo

4,644,457 (July 2008 est.)

Bokmal Norwegian (official), Nynorsk Norwegian (official), small Sami- and Finnish- speaking minorities - Sami is the official language in six municipalities

Constitution Day: May 17 (1814)

Northern Europe, bordering the North Sea and the Northern Atlantic Ocean, West of Sweden

62 00 N, 10 00 E

Finland, Sweden, Russia

Total: 323,802 sqkm - Land: 307,442 sqkm - Water: 16,360 sqkm

Covered by an ice sheet; mostly high plateaus and rugged mountains broken by fertile valleys; small, scattered plains; coastline deeply indented by fjords; arctic tundra in the north

Temperate along the coast, modified by North Atlantic Current; cooler inland with more rainfall and cooler summers; rainy year-round on the west coast

UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) +1

Norwegian krone (NOK)

Crop land: 2.7% - Permanent crops: 0% - Other: 97.3% (2005)

Natural gas, petroleum, iron ore, copper, lead, zinc, titanium, pyrites, nickel, fish, timber, hydropower

Constitutional monarchy

Norwegian 94.4% (including approx 60.000 Sami), other Europeans 3.6%, others 2% (2007)

Church of Norway 85.7%, Pentecostal 1%, Roman Catholic 1%, other Christian 2.4%, Muslim 1.8%, other 8.1% (2004)

November 27, 1945

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