| Norwegian People's Republic Norsk Folkerepublikk Timeline: Nihon no heiwa | ||||||
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| Motto: Arbeidere i verden, foren deg! "Workers of the world, unite!" |
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| Anthem: Ja, vi elsker dette landet "Yes, we love this country" |
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 Norway (green)
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| Capital | Oslo | |||||
| Official languages | Norwegian | |||||
| Demonym | Norwegian | |||||
| Government | Unitary Marxist-Leninist one-party republic | |||||
| - | General Secretary President |
Bjørnar Moxnes | ||||
| - | Prime Minister | Knut Henning Thygesen | ||||
| Legislature | National Congress | |||||
| Formation | ||||||
| - | State established prior Unification | 872 | ||||
| - | Old Kingdom of Norway (peak extent) | 1263 | ||||
| - | Kalmar Union | 1397–1524 | ||||
| - | Denmark–Norway | 1524–1814 | ||||
| - | Reestablished state | 25 February 1814 | ||||
| - | Union with Sweden | 1814–1905 | ||||
| - | Socialist republic proclaimed | 17 November 1944 | ||||
| Population | ||||||
| - | 2022 estimate | 5,425,270 | ||||
| Currency | Norwegian krone (NOK) |
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| Drives on the | Right | |||||
Norway (Norwegian: Norge), officially the Norwegian People's Republic (Norwegian: Norsk Folkerepublikk), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares borders with the Soviet Union and Finland to the east; and Sweden to the southeast, while sharing overseas borders with Denmark in the south. The capital and largest city of Norway is Oslo.
The kingdom was established in 872 as a merger of many petty kingdoms and has existed continuously for 1,150 years. From 1537 to 1814, Norway was a part of the Kingdom of Denmark–Norway, and, from 1814 to 1905, it was in a personal union with the Kingdom of Sweden. Norway was neutral during the First World War and remained so until April 1940 when the country was invaded and occupied by Nazi Germany until the end of World War II, when the Soviets liberated the country and established a socialist republic under its sphere of influence.