Norway
Norway (
i//; Norwegian: 
Norge
(Bokmål) or Noreg
(Nynorsk)), officially the Kingdom
of Norway, is a Scandinavian unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory
comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, and the sub-Antarctic Bouvet Island.[note 1] Norway has a
total area of 385,252 square kilometres (148,747 sq mi) and a population of
5,109,059 people. (01.01. 2014)[10] It is
the 2nd least
densely populated country in Europe. The country shares a long eastern
border with Sweden (1,619 km or
1,006 mi long), which is the longest uninterrupted border within both Scandinavia & Europe at large. Norway is bordered by Finland and Russia to the north-east, and the Skagerrak Strait to the south, with Denmark on the other side. It shares maritime borders
with Russia by the Barents Sea; Greenland, the Faroe Islands, and Iceland by the Norwegian Sea; and Sweden,
Denmark, and the United
Kingdom by the North Sea. Norway's extensive coastline, facing the North
Atlantic Ocean and the Barents
Sea, is laced with fjords, a renowned
part of its landscape. The capital city Oslo is the largest in the nation, with a population of
630,000. Norway has extensive reserves of petroleum, natural gas, minerals, lumber, seafood, fresh water, and hydropower.
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