Its coastline, counting fjords and islands, runs over 100,000 km - long enough to circle the equator twice.
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Norway
Kingdom of Norway ยท Noreg
Europe
ยท Northern Europe
0Population
323.8Kkmยฒ of land
$75.42KGDP / person
OsloCapital
- ISO codes
- NO ยท NOR
- Density
- 17 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Norwegian Nynorsk, Norwegian Bokmรฅl, Sami
- Currency
- Norwegian krone (NOK)
- Dial code
- +47
- Internet domain
- .no
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 61.3570ยฐ N, 9.6800ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Norwegian
- UN region
- Northern Europe
- Economy
- Developed region: nonG7
- Income group
- High income: OECD
- Total GDP
- $403.34B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 3
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By the numbers
How Norway stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
120th
of 242 ยท 0.07% of world population
Land area
70th
of 242 ยท 0.22% of world land
GDP per person
13th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
200th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Norway
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 5,347,896 people, the 120th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 1,436 of everyone alive.
Covers 323,802 kmยฒ, making it the 70th largest country here - about 10.6 times the size of Belgium.
Population density is about 17 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Oslo, at 59.92ยฐ N, 10.75ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 835,000.
Shares land borders with 3 countries: Finland, Sweden and Russia.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Europe/Oslo.
The currency is the Norwegian krone (NOK, symbol kr).
Has 3 official languages: Norwegian Nynorsk, Norwegian Bokmรฅl and Sami.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Europe/Oslo
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UTC+02:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
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Oslo
Oslo
59.9186ยฐ N, 10.7480ยฐ E
835K
2
Bergen
Hordaland
60.3910ยฐ N, 5.3245ยฐ E
213.59K
3
Trondheim
Sรธr-Trรธndelag
63.4167ยฐ N, 10.4167ยฐ E
147.14K
4
Kristiansand
Vest-Agder
58.1666ยฐ N, 8.0000ยฐ E
63.81K
5
Tromsรธ
Troms
69.6351ยฐ N, 18.9920ยฐ E
52.44K
6
Hammerfest
Finnmark
70.6613ยฐ N, 23.6880ยฐ E
10K
๐งญ Worth the trip
Northern Lights, Tromsรธ
Nature
Sits under the auroral oval, so the sky performs on any clear dark night through the polar winter.
Svalbard
Adventure
Polar bears outnumber people, the sun does not set from April to August, and a seed vault sits inside a mountain.
Land neighbours
3 countries share a border with Norway.