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This is a list of towns and cities in Norway. The Norwegian language word by means a town or city–there is no distinction between the two words as there is in English. Historically, the designation of town/city was granted by the king, but since 1996 that authority was given to the local municipal councils for each municipality in Norway. In ...
The region Midt-Norge/Midt-Noreg (Central Norway) is often used as a synonym to Trøndelag, but also includes Møre og Romsdal (according to some definitions only Nordmøre and parts of Romsdal). The southernmost part of Nordland is also sometimes considered to be part of Central Norway. Similarly, Rogaland, or parts of Rogaland, is sometimes ...
The name of the peninsula is derived from the term Scandinavia, the cultural region of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. That cultural name is in turn derived from the name of Scania, the region at the southern extremity of the peninsula which was for centuries a part of Denmark, which is the ancestral home of the Danes, and is now part of Sweden. [2 ...
Norway proper 15 counties (Norwegian: ... 3 unintegrated overseas dependencies; Sweden. Sweden [7] 21 counties (Swedish: län) 290 municipalities (Swedish: kommuner)
The five traditional regions of Norway. Sørlandet is more recent, while the other four are ancient. At least parts of Møre og Romsdal - particularly Nordmøre - identifies more with Trøndelag than with Vestlandet. Norway is divided into five major regions (landsdeler) based on geographical and also dialectical differences.
Norway (Bokmål: Norge, Nynorsk: Noreg), officially the Kingdom of Norway, [a] is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula with a population of 5.5 million as of 2024. [19] The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of Norway.
This is a list of urban areas in Norway by population, with population numbers as of 1 January 2024.. Statistics Norway, the governmental organisation with the task of measuring the Norwegian population, uses the term tettsted (literally "dense place"; meaning urban settlement or urban area), which is defined as a continuous built-up area with a maximum distance of 50 metres (160 ft) between ...
3.3% of Norway's land is considered arable land, with 0% of it used for permanent crops and permanent pastures. [citation needed] A 1993 estimate assessed Norway's irrigated land at about 970 km 2 (370 sq mi). [citation needed] 38% of land area is covered by forests; 21% by conifer forest, and 17% by deciduous forest. [25]