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Website. www .oslo .kommune .no. Oslo ( / ˈɒzloʊ / OZ-loh, US also / ˈɒsloʊ / OSS-loh, [11] [12] Norwegian: [ˈʊ̂ʂlʊ] ⓘ or [ˈʊ̂slʊ, ˈʊ̀ʂlʊ]; Southern Sami: Oslove [13]) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of 709,037 in ...
Telemark. Buskerud. Akershus. Østfold. Innlandet. Oslo. The division into regions is, by convention, based on geographical and also dialectical differences, but it also follows the county borders approximately. Other regions exist for various purposes of government. Administratively, the traditional regions as listed above play less of a role ...
The Norwegian monarch is the head of state of Norway, which is a constitutional and hereditary monarchy with a parliamentary system. The Norwegian monarchy can trace its line back to the reign of Harald Fairhair and the previous petty kingdoms which were united to form Norway; it has been in unions with both Sweden and Denmark for long periods.
Western Norway ( Bokmål: Vestlandet, Vest-Norge; Nynorsk: Vest-Noreg) is the region along the Atlantic coast of southern Norway. It consists of the counties Rogaland, Vestland, and Møre og Romsdal. The region has no official or political-administrative function.
Denmark–Norway ( Danish and Norwegian: Danmark–Norge) was a 16th-to-19th-century multi-national and multi-lingual real union consisting of the Kingdom of Denmark, the Kingdom of Norway (including the then Norwegian overseas possessions: the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, and other possessions ), the Duchy of Schleswig, and the Duchy of ...
Svalbard ( / ˈsvɑːlbɑːr ( d )/ SVAHL-bar (d), [4] Urban East Norwegian: [ˈsvɑ̂ːɫbɑr] ), previously known as Spitsbergen or Spitzbergen, is a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. North of mainland Europe, it lies about midway between the northern coast of Norway and the North Pole. The islands of the group range from 74° to 81 ...
The 3,849-square-kilometre (1,486 sq mi) municipality is the 7th largest municipality by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Alta is the 59th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 21,708. The municipality's population density is 5.6 inhabitants per square kilometre (15/sq mi) and its population has increased by 9.5 ...
