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Urban area includes all or most of the population of 5 additional municipalities in the Capital region. Iceland. 13. Stavanger / Sandnes. 228,287 [7] 319,822. Municipality: 144 223. Metropolitan area: 297,569. Conurbation includes the neighbouring municipalities Sandnes, Randaberg and Sola.
Northern Europe. A composed satellite photograph of islands and continental areas in and surrounding the North Sea and Baltic Sea. The northern region of Europe has several definitions. A restrictive definition may describe northern Europe as being roughly north of the southern coast of the Baltic Sea, which is about 54°N, or may be based on ...
The Nordic countries (also known as the Nordics or Norden; lit. 'the North') [2] are a geographical and cultural region in Northern Europe and the North Atlantic. It includes the sovereign states of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway [a] and Sweden; the autonomous territories of the Faroe Islands and Greenland; and the autonomous region of Åland.
Levent neighbourhood on the European side of Istanbul, which had a total population of 15,655,924 in 2023, including its 25 districts in Europe and 14 districts in Anatolia. This list ranks European cities by population within city limits. The largest cities in Europe have official populations of over one million inhabitants within their city ...
The UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) has designated 37 World Heritage Sites in eight countries (also called "state parties") commonly referred to as Northern Europe: Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, i.e. a combination of Nordic and Baltic countries. [ 1]
Moscow, the capital of Russia, has the most populous metropolitan area in Europe. Europe and some parts of Africa and Asia by night. Lights reveal the urbanized areas of Europe. It also shows the Blue Banana megalopolis from north-west England to northern Italy, and the Golden Banana urbanized area between Genoa and Valencia.
Bergen, the capital of Vestland county. Stavanger, the oil capital and capital of Rogaland county. Trondheim, the largest city in Trøndelag county. Kristiansand, the biggest city and capital of Agder county. Fredrikstad, the biggest city in Østfold county and one of the 20 biggest cities in Norway. Tromsø, the capital of Troms county.
Scandinavia. Scandinavia is a subregion of Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural, and linguistic ties between its constituent peoples. Scandinavia most commonly refers to Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. It can sometimes also refer to the Scandinavian Peninsula (which excludes Denmark but includes a part of northern Finland).