Norway

Norway

Norway ranks 25th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Australia, South Korea, and Hungary. Memorable people born in present day Norway include Edvard Munch, Harald V of Norway, and Roald Amundsen. Memorable people who died in Norway include Edvard Munch, Henrik Ibsen, and Edvard Grieg. Norway has been the birth place of many soccer players, and athletes and the death place of many politicians, and writers.

Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. 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. Norway has a population of 5.6 million. Its capital and largest city is Oslo. The country 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. In 2024, Norway was ranked the seventh happiest country in the world. Read more on Wikipedia