Norway

The Kingdom of Norway is a constitutional monarchy in Scandinavia, consisting of the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula and some of the most northern parts of the region, including the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. Along with Denmark, Finland, Iceland, and Sweden, it is considered one of the Nordic countries, a group of countries with common cultural, geographic, ethnic, and historical ties, though they are not a formal political union. (All except Iceland and Denmark’s autonomous region of Greenland are part of the European Union.) The second least densely populated country in Europe, even its largest city, the capital city of Oslo, has a population of only about 650,000. Its natural resources are extensive, including oil and hydropower resources, and it has one of the ...