General: Norway is a
Nordic country on the western portion of the Scandinavian
Peninsula, located in Europe, and bordering Sweden,
Finland and Russia. Norway has a very elongated
shape; the country's extensive coastline along
the North Atlantic Ocean is home to its famous
fjords. The Kingdom of Norway also includes the
Arctic island territories of Svalbard and Jan
Mayen. The Norwegian sovereignty on Svalbard is
based on the Svalbard Treaty, but this does not
apply to Jan Mayen. Bouvet Island in the South
Atlantic Ocean and a claim for Peter I Island
in the South Pacific Ocean are also external dependencies,
but these are not part of the Kingdom. Norway
also claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica where
it has established the Troll permanent research
station.
Currency: Krone is the
name of the currency used in Norway. The plural
form is kroner. One krone is divided into 100
øre, singular and plural. The ISO 4217
code is NOK, although the common abbreviation
is "kr".
Language: Norwegian
is a Germanic language spoken in Norway. Norwegian
is closely related to and generally mutually intelligible
with Swedish and Danish. Together with these two
languages as well as Faroese and Icelandic, Norwegian
belongs to the North Germanic languages (also
called Scandinavian languages). Due to isolation,
Faroese and Icelandic are no longer mutually intelligible
with Norwegian in their spoken form, because mainland
Scandinavian has diverged from them.
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