Norway

Norway

Norway ranks 27th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Denmark, South Korea, and Switzerland. Memorable people born in present day Norway include Edvard Munch, Henrik Ibsen, and Edvard Grieg. 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 politicians and the death place of many politicians and writers.

Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of Norway. Bouvet Island, located in the Subantarctic, is a dependency of Norway; it also lays claims to the Antarctic territories of Peter I Island and Queen Maud Land. The capital and largest city in Norway is Oslo. Read more on Wikipedia