Norway

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PROFILE
  • Area: 323,802 sq. km (125,021 sq. mi.)
  • Population: 5,265,158 (2016 est.)
  • Population growth rate: 1.07% (2016 est.)
  • Life expectancy: 81.8 years (2016)
  • Languages: Bokmal Norwegian (official), Nynorsk Norwegian (official), small Sami- and Finnish-speaking minorities
  • Religions: Church of Norway (Evangelical Lutheran - official) 82.1%, other Christian 3.9%, Muslim 2.3%, Roman Catholic 1.8%, other 2.4%, unspecified 7.5%
  • Formal name: Kingdom of Norway
  • Alternate names: Kingdom of Norway, Kongeriget Norge, Kongeriket Noreg, Kongeriket Norge, Noreg, Norge, Norreweg, Norvège, Norvegia, Norwegen
  • Government type: parliamentary constitutional monarchy
  • Leaders: chief of state: King HARALD V; head of government: Prime Minister Erna SOLBERG
  • Capital: Oslo
  • Administrative divisions: 19 counties
  • GDP per capita (PPP): $68,400 (2015 est.)
  • Exports: petroleum and petroleum products, machinery and equipment, metals, chemicals, ships, fish
  • Imports: machinery and equipment, chemicals, metals, foodstuffs
  • Currency: Norwegian krone (NOK)
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