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Europe > Norway > Introduction
N O R W A Y |
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enchanting mix of cities and villages, of fjords and breathtakingly beautiful seas, Norway
is one of Europe’s few countries where you can be in a busy city in the morning and
out in the countryside, without a soul around for miles, by the evening. The
country’s main cities- Oslo, Bergen, Stavanger and the like- are as swinging and
modern as many in continental Europe, but out in the countryside, life is still as quiet
as it was a century ago. |
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Norway
means many things to many people. `The Land of the Midnight Sun’, this is the country
where during the summer, the sun does not go down even at night (not a phenomenon all over
Norway, though- it happens only in the Lofoten Islands). This is the land of famous
explorers like Amundsen and Thor Heyerdahl and the greatest of all, the legendary Vikings;
of literary and artistic giants like Edvard Munch and Henrik Ibsen. And, in contrast,
it’s also the land of people like the Sami Lapps, who even today still live by
herding reindeer. |
An
unusual country that has virtually everything you could want: natural beauty, adventure,
beautiful medieval cities, and more.
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F A C
T B O X |
| Full Country Name |
Kingdom
of Norway (Norge or Noreg) |
| Area |
324,220
sq km |
| Capital City |
Oslo |
| Population |
4,326,000
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| Language |
Nynorsk,
Bokmål |
Religion |
Christian
(largely Lutheran) |
| People |
Nordic,
Alpine & Baltic; small Lapp population |
| Government |
Constitutional
Monarchy |
| Head of State |
Prime
Minister: Jens Stoltenberg
Monarch:
King Harald V |
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