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Norway
Location marker · geographic overview
62° N / 10° ETHE WORLD, ONE COUNTRY AT A TIME
- Capital
- Oslo
- Population
- 5,572,279 2024
- Area
- 386,224 km² (year unavailable)
- Languages source-listed
- Norwegian Nynorsk, Norwegian Bokmål, Sami
- Currency
- Norwegian krone (NOK)
- Geography
- Coastal country
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Sources & limitations.
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FROM THE TRAVEL GUIDE · Norway
Norway (Norwegian: Norge or Noreg) is a land of great fjords, great valleys, wide forests and gorgeous lakes. It also hosts lively cities such as Oslo and Bergen. Norway is the westernmost, northernmost and, surprisingly, the easternmost of the Scandinavian countries – among the Nordic countries only Finland stretches slightly further east.
Landscape & landmarks
Norway has plenty of rural attractions - mountains, fjords, islands, glaciers, waterfalls, forests and small villages. Norway's natural and cultural sights often coincide, such as an impressive mountain road within great scenery or the ancient stave churches located in the most serene landscape.Read the see section ↗
Food & everyday culture
While Norwegian eating habits have become more cosmopolitan in the last decades, traditional Norwegian "farm" food is still widely eaten, made by whatever can grow in the northern climate, be stored for a year until new crops come out, and contain enough energy for you to do hard work.Read the eat section ↗
Excerpts from Wikivoyage contributors, revision 2026-09-26. CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected excerpts; wiki formatting removed; omissions marked […]. Guide wording and any figures belong to this dated source; they do not replace the atlas statistics above. Food descriptions are not official national-dish designations.
A few more connections
- Highest point source-listed
- Galdhøpiggen Wikidata record ↗
Cited reference ↗
Wikidata, CC0 1.0. Source-matched, not independently certified. Observation year unavailable; retrieved 2026-09-27.
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- National flower
- Not yet verified
- Official national dish
- Not yet verified
- Representative food
- Not yet verified
- Subregion
- Northern Europe
- Calling code
- +47
- Internet domain
- .no
- Land border codes
- FIN, SWE, RUS
Quick facts
- Traffic keeps to the right side of the road. Source ↗
- The country-code web domain is .no. Source ↗
- The source lists monday as the start of the week. Source ↗
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Source-matched September 26, 2026; not live data. Sources & limitations.