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Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Scandinavian
unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory
comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian
Peninsula, Jan Mayen, the Arctic archipelago of
Svalbard, and the sub-Antarctic Bouvet Island.
Norway has a total area of 385,252 square kilometres
(148,747 sq mi) and a population of a little above
5 million. It is the 2nd least densely populated
country in Europe.
The country shares a long eastern border with Sweden
(1,619 km or 1,006 mi long), which is the longest
uninterrupted border within both Scandinavia &
Europe at large. Norway is bordered by Finland and
Russia to the north-east, and the Skagerrak Strait
to the south, with Denmark on the other side. It
shares maritime borders with Russia by the Barents
Sea; Greenland, the Faroe Islands, and Iceland by
the Norwegian Sea; and Sweden, Denmark, and the
United Kingdom by the North Sea. Norway's extensive
coastline, facing the North Atlantic Ocean and the
Barents Sea, is laced with fjords, a renowned part
of its landscape. The capital city Oslo is the largest
in the nation, with a population of 1 million...
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