| Kingdom of Norway Kongeriket Norge Timeline: Russians in America | ||||||
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| Anthem: Ja, vi elsker dette landet (English: "Yes, we love this country") |
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| Location of Norway (green)
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| Capital | Oslo | |||||
| Official languages | Norwegian | |||||
| Demonym | Norwegian | |||||
| Government | Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy | |||||
| - | Monarch | Haakon VII | ||||
| - | Prime Minister | Trygve Slagsvold Vedum | ||||
| Legislature | Storting | |||||
| Formation | ||||||
| - | State established prior Unification | 872 | ||||
| - | Old Kingdom of Norway (peak extent) | 1263 | ||||
| - | Kalmar Union | 1397 | ||||
| - | Denmark-Norway | 1524 | ||||
| - | Reestablished state | 25 February 1814 | ||||
| - | Constitution | 17 May 1814 | ||||
| - | Union between Sweden and Norway | 4 November 1814 | ||||
| - | Dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden | 7 June 1905 | ||||
| Population | ||||||
| - | 2022 estimate | 5,425,270 | ||||
| Currency | Norwegian krone (NOK) |
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| Drives on the | right | |||||
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Norway (Norwegian: Norge), officially the Kingdom of Norway (Norwegian: Kongeriket Norge) is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares borders with Russia and Finland to the southeast; 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 in 1945, when its sovereignty was restored.