Kingdom of Norway
Kongeriket Norge
Kongeriket Noreg
Kongeriket Noreg
Motto:
Royal: Alt for Norge / Alt for Noreg
("Everything/anything for Norway")
1814 Eidsvoll oath:
Enig og tro til Dovre faller
("United and loyal until the mountains of Dovre crumble")
Royal: Alt for Norge / Alt for Noreg
("Everything/anything for Norway")
1814 Eidsvoll oath:
Enig og tro til Dovre faller
("United and loyal until the mountains of Dovre crumble")
Anthem: Ja, vi elsker dette landet
Yes, we love this country
Royal anthem: Kongesangen
Song of the King
Yes, we love this country
Royal anthem: Kongesangen
Song of the King
- Capital
(and largest city) - Oslo
- Official languages
- Norwegian (Bokmål and Nynorsk)1
- Ethnic groups
- 90.3% Norwegian, Sami, 9.7% other[1] (2009)
- Demonym
- Norwegian
- Government
- Parliamentary democracy under constitutional monarchy
- Monarch
- Harald V
- Prime Minister
- Jens Stoltenberg (Ap)
- Storting President
- Thorbjørn Jagland (Ap)
- Current coalition
- Red-Green Coalition
- Establishment
- Unification
- 872
- Constitution
- 17 May 1814
- Independence from union with Sweden
- declared 7 June 1905
- Area
- Total
- 385,252 km2 (61st2)
148,746 sq mi - Water (%)
- 7.0
- Population
- 2009 estimate
- 4,805,437 (as of January 29, 2009) (115th)
- Density
- 12/km2 (202nd)
31/sq mi - GDP (PPP)
- 2008 estimate
- Total
- $259.049 billion[2] (43rd)
- Per capita
- $55,198[2] (IMF) (2nd)
- GDP (nominal)
- 2008 estimate
- Total
- $481.148 billion[2] (23rd)
- Per capita
- $102,524[2] (IMF) (2nd)
- Gini (2000)
- 25.8 (low) (6th)
- HDI (2008)
- 0.968 (high) (1st)
- Currency
- Norwegian krone (
NOK) - Time zone
- CET (UTC+1)
- Summer (DST)
- CEST (UTC+2)
- Drives on the
- right
- Internet TLD
- .no, .sj and .bv
- Calling code
- 47
- Northern Sami is used in the municipal administration of six municipalities, Lule Sami in one, Finnish/Kven in one, and Southern Sami in one.
- Includes Svalbard and Jan Mayen.
- This percentage is for the mainland and also includes glaciers[3]
- Statistics Norway estimation (5 September 2006) using variant MMMM from Table 10[4]
- Two more TLDs have been assigned, but to date not used: .sj for Svalbard and Jan Mayen; .bv for Bouvet Island.