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| Anthem | "Ja, vi elsker dette landet" | ||||||
| Capital (and largest city) |
Trondheim | ||||||
| Other cities | Bergen, Stavanger, Kristiansand, Lillehammer, Hamar | ||||||
| Language | Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk | ||||||
| Religion main |
Lutheran | ||||||
| others | Roman Catholicism and Judaism | ||||||
| Ethnic Groups main |
Norwegians | ||||||
| others | Jews, Travellers, Forest Finns, Romani, Kvens, Poles, Lithuanians, Somalia | ||||||
| Demonym | Norwegian | ||||||
| Government | Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy | ||||||
| Legislature | Storting | ||||||
| Monarch | Haakon VIII | ||||||
| Royal house: | Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg | ||||||
| Prime Minister | Erna Solberg | ||||||
| Area | 249,840 km² | ||||||
| Population | 4.5 million | ||||||
| Established | 872 | ||||||
| Independence | from Sweden | ||||||
| declared | 7 June, 1905 | ||||||
| Currency | Norwegian krone | ||||||
| Time Zone | Central European Time | ||||||
| summer | Central European Summer Time | ||||||
| Driving Side | right | ||||||
| Calling Code | +47 | ||||||
| Organizations | Northern European Community | ||||||
The Kingdom of Norway is a Nordic unitary sovereign state located on the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. Norway is a constitutional hereditary monarchy. The current reigning monarch is King Haakon VIII who has reigned since 1989 following the death of his father.