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Norway (Bokmål: Norge, Nynorsk: Noreg), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula with a population of 5.5 million as of 2024. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of Norway. Bouvet Island, located in the Subantarctic, is a dependency, and not a part of the Kingdom; Norway also claims the Antarctic territories of Peter I Island and Queen Maud Land. The capital and largest city in Norway is Oslo.

Norway has a total area of 385,207 square kilometres (148,729 sq mi). The country shares a long eastern border with Sweden, and is bordered by Finland and Russia to the northeast. Norway has an extensive coastline facing the Skagerrak strait, the North Atlantic Ocean, and the Barents Sea. (Full article...)

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Braathens Helikopter A/S was a Norwegian helicopter airline based at Stavanger Airport and Bergen Airport. It used a fleet of seven Aérospatiale Super Pumas to serve offshore oil platforms in the North Sea. The customers were Amoco, BP, Norsk Hydro, Phillips Petroleum and Statoil, serving their oil fields Ekofisk, Oseberg, Gullfaks, Veslefrikk, Valhall, Ula and Gyda. Braathens Helikopter operated from 1989 to 1993, after which it was sold to and merged with the main competitor, Helikopter Service. Braathens Helikopter was owned by Ludvig G. Braathens Rederi and was a sister company of the airline Braathens SAFE. (Full article...)

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Air Norway Fairchild Metro

Air Norway AS is a virtual, regional airline with its head office in the town of Brekstad, the administrative centre of the municipality of Ørland, in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It operates seven round trips a week from its hub at Ørland Airport to Oslo Airport, Gardermoen, and a single, weekly round trip from Oslo to Aalborg Airport, Denmark, using a wet leased Fairchild Metro aircraft from North Flying. The airline was established in 2003. Following the bankruptcy of Coast Air in January 2008, the airline stepped in and was serving Fagernes Airport, Leirin with two daily flights to Oslo, and one daily flight to Trondheim, but these were terminated in 2009. (Full article...)

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Svalbard

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Svalbard is an archipelago lying in the Arctic Ocean north of mainland Europe, about midway between Norway and the North Pole. It consists of a group of islands ranging from 74° to 81° North, and 10° to 35° East. The archipelago is the northernmost part of the Kingdom of Norway.

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Thorbjørn Jagland (pictured) (born 5 November 1950) is a Norwegian politician. He was Prime Minister of Norway from 1996 to 1997 leading the cabinet Jagland, and then Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2000 to 2001 in the first cabinet Stoltenberg.
Carsten Tank Anker (17 November 1747 — 13 March 1824) was a Norwegian businessman, civil servant and politician.
Anne Lilia Berge Strand (born 21 November 1978 in Trondheim, Norway), better known by her stage name Annie, is a pop artist and DJ from Bergen, Norway.
Knut Arild Hareide (born 23 November 1972 in Rubbestadneset) is a Norwegian businessperson and politician for the Christian Democratic Party.

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Image 1Trondheim in 1965 (from History of Norway)
Image 2Edvard Munch's The Scream (1893) (from Culture of Norway)
Image 3Bridal Journey in Hardanger (1848) by Adolph Tidemand and Hans Gude, an example of romantic nationalism (from History of Norway)
Image 4Traditional Norwegian St. Hansbål (midsummer) bonfire in Laksevåg, Bergen (from Culture of Norway)
Image 5The Kalmar Union, c. 1400 (from History of Norway)
Image 6Statfjord oil platform (from History of Norway)
Image 7Scenes from the Norwegian Campaign in 1940 (from History of Norway)
Image 8Rock carvings at Alta (from History of Norway)
Image 9Map of Denmark–Norway (from History of Norway)
Image 10The Kingdom of Norway about 1265, at its greatest extent (from History of Norway)
Image 11Petty kingdoms of Norway c. 872 (from History of Norway)
Image 12Reconstruction of a longhouse at Lofoten (from History of Norway)
Image 13The Constituent Assembly which approved the Constitution of Norway (from History of Norway)
Image 14Roald Amundsen, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel and Oscar Wisting (l–r) at Polheim, the tent erected at the South Pole on 16 December 1911 as the first expedition (from History of Norway)
Image 15Alta Power Station, built despite massive protests (from History of Norway)
Image 16Røros, a major copper mining town, in 1869 (from History of Norway)
Image 17The Røros Line through Holtålen in 1877 (from History of Norway)
Image 18Map of Sweden–Norway (from History of Norway)
Image 19Harvesting oats at Fossum in Jølster during the 1880s (from History of Norway)
Image 20Henrik Ibsen, c. 1890 (from Culture of Norway)
Image 21Brudeferden i Hardanger (from Culture of Norway)
Image 22Smørbrød, Norwegian open sandwiches (from Culture of Norway)
Image 23Bryggen in Bergen, once the centre of trade in Norway under the Hanseatic League trade network, now preserved as a World Heritage Site (from History of Norway)
Image 24Homann's map of the Scandinavian Peninsula and Fennoscandia with their surrounding territories: northern Germany, northern Poland, the Baltic region, Livonia, Belarus, and parts of Northwest Russia. Johann Baptist Homann (1664–1724) was a German geographer and cartographer; map dated around 1730. (from History of Norway)
Image 25Norwegian Hardanger fiddle (from Culture of Norway)
Image 26Industry along Akerselva in Oslo in 1912 (from History of Norway)
Image 27Battle of Alvøen between the frigate HMS Tartar and Norwegian gunboats near Bergen in 1808 (from History of Norway)
Image 28Historical quarter of Bryggen in Bergen (from Culture of Norway)
Image 29Norwegian Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik met with U.S. President George W. Bush at the Oval Office in White House, on 27 May 2003. (from History of Norway)

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The Oslo Tramway is a six-line tram and light rail network that serves the central parts of Oslo, Norway, of which three lines stretch into the suburbs. The Oslo Metro is a six-line rapid transit system that covers all boroughs of Oslo and some of western Bærum. Currently, the infrastructure of both systems is owned by the municipal company Sporveien (Kollektivtransportproduksjon). The tramway is operated by the subsidiary Sporveien Trikken (previously Oslotrikken), while the metro is operated by Sporveien T-banen (previously Oslo T-banedrift) and the rolling stock is owned by the subsidiary Oslo Vognselskap. All operations are conducted on contract with Ruter, the public transport authority for Oslo and Akershus, which operates the ticket system and manages public grants.

Throughout the history of the Oslo Tramway and Metro, 15 different companies have owned, constructed or operated parts or all of the network. The first street trams in Oslo were built by three different companies, each with their own network. The private Kristiania Sporveisselskab started with a horsecar service in 1875, but electrified their lines after Kristiania Elektriske Sporvei started with electric trams in 1894. Between 1899 and 1905, the municipality operated street trams through Kristiania Kommunale Sporveie. Starting in 1898, the private Holmenkolbanen, and later the municipal Akersbanerne and private Ekebergbanen, built suburban light rail systems. In 1924, the city took over the street trams and established Oslo Sporveier. After the municipal merger between Aker and Oslo in 1948, the Municipality of Oslo became the major stock holder of Holmenkolbanen. Bærumsbanen was taken over by Oslo Sporveier in 1944, and in 1971 disestablished. The private light rail lines were gradually nationalized and transferred to Oslo Sporveier, which operated the entire network by 1975. The metro was established in 1966 and was operated by Oslo Sporveier, which also operated the city's buses and contracted the ferries. (Full article...)

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Carl Gustav Fleischer KCB (1883-1942) was a Norwegian general and the first land commander to win a major victory against the Germans in World War II. Fleischer was born in 1883 as the son of a Church of Norway pastor in Trøndelag. His father died while he was very young and Fleischer moved with his mother to grow up in Trondheim. His childhood home was one characterized by Christianity, simplicity and frugality. Motivated by economic uncertainties, Fleischer joined the Norwegian Military Academy and graduated as the second best student in 1905. In 1919-1923 he was the Staff officer of the Norwegian 6th division before becoming Commanding Officer of Infantry Regiment 14 (IR 14) in Mosjøen. While serving in North Norway Fleischer became an avid writer of military manuals and worked continually on developing the Norwegian Defence Forces in line with the special prerequisites caused by the Norwegian nature and society. On January 16, 1939 he was made Major General (generalmajor) and Commanding Officer of the Norwegian 6th division, the position that would lead him to become the first allied general to defeat the Wehrmacht in a head-on land confrontation. (Full article...)

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...that Norwegian architect Hjalmar Welhaven's (pictured) collection of old skis was the basis for the world's oldest ski museum in 1923 when it opened in Oslo?
...that the SOE assassination operation Bittern received severe criticism from the Norwegian resistance movement?
...that Karl Johanssen, foreign news editor in Arbeiderbladet and one of Norway's first radio personalities, was denounced on the front page of Pravda?

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We have a high standard of living. ... In Norway, we've tripled our income since 1970. In the rest of western Europe, income has merely doubled.

— Jens Stoltenberg, 2001

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Mountains along the Ulvikfjord, a side arm of the Hardangerfjord in Western Norway. With a length of 179 km (111 miles), the Hardangerfjord in the county of Hordaland in Norway is the third largest fjord in the world and the second largest in Norway. (Full article...)

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Adolph Tidemand & Hans Gude - Bridal Procession on the Hardangerfjord - Google Art Project
Andrees Station3
Arctic eclipse
BergenHordalandNorwayVagen
Fredrikke Mørck
Fridtjof Nansen LOC 03377u-3
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Johan Christian Claussen Dahl – View from Stalheim – Google Art Project
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Little Norway Guide2
Magna Lykseth in Tristan och Isolde at Kungliga Operan 1909 - SMV - GL164
Nils Olav inspects the Kings Guard of Norway after being bestowed with a knighthood at Edinburgh Zoo in Scotland
Nordlyskatedralen, Alta, Northeast view 20150611 1
Portrett av Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, 1909 - no-nb digifoto 20150129 00043 bldsa BB0791 - Restoration
Portrett av Gina Krog (6276081582) - Restoration
Reine at Reinefjorden, 2010 September
Roald Amundsen2
Scandinavia.TMO2003050
Stavechurch-heddal
Tsjuder, Jan-Erik „Nag“ Romøren at Party.San Metal Open Air 2013
View from a ridge between Segla and Hesten, Senja, Norway, 2014 August
Vista de Ålesund desde Aksla, Noruega, 2019-09-01, DD 16