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Norway (official name The Kingdom of Norway, Norwegian: Kongedømmet Norge or Kongedømmet Noreg) is a country in Northern Europe. Norway has a population of 4,681,100 (2007 estimate)[1], and an area of 385,155 km² (148,746 mi²). The capital is Oslo.
Geography
Norway occupies the western parts of the Scandinavian peninsula, and is bordering Sweden i the east. It also borders Finland and Russia in the northeast. Norway has a land border of 2,542 km (1,580 miles).
Norway has a continental coastline of 25,148 km (15,626 miles). It borders the North Sea and the Norwegian Sea in the west, the Skagerrak in the south and the Barents Sea in the north. Norway's long coastline is famous for its fjords.
The landscape of Norway is dominated by mountains, and much of the country is barren (32% of continental Norway is above the tree line).