Norway

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This page was generated on 20 September 2026 at 12:27 UTC. The bundled facts on it were retrieved between 13 July 2026 and 8 August 2026. Aletheia's source record for emergency numbers records no retrieval date, so it is not covered by that range.

This page is being built. Everything below is a block that is in place and empty. Each one says which kind of empty it is, because those are different facts: nobody has looked yet is not the same claim as we looked and there was nothing, and this page will never let one stand in for the other.

Country outlines on Aletheia come from Natural Earth's 1:10-million public-domain boundary set, made by volunteer cartographers and supported by NACIS. Where a border is disputed, the line drawn is one cartographic convention among the competing claims — not a settled fact, and not Aletheia taking a side. Disputes we can source are listed rather than hidden inside the outline.

Locator map of Norway. Norway is filled; surrounding countries are drawn in a dimmer tone and nothing is hidden behind them. No contested area from this source overlaps it. 110 parts of it are too small to draw at this scale and are not shown. View spans 56.3°W to 80.8°E and 66.6°S to 90.0°N. Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m.

Norway is filled. The 143 other countries reaching this view are drawn in a dimmer tone — dimmed, not hidden. Unpainted ground is where no boundary in this dataset falls: open water, or land none of them claims.

Nothing is hatched because no disputed area in this source overlaps Norway. That is not a finding that none exists — the source says plainly that its list is not exhaustive.

110 parts of Norway in this source are smaller than a pixel at this scale and are not drawn. Nothing larger than that is missing, and they have not been enlarged to make them visible.

This frame is wide because the source attributes territory to Norway across about 137° of longitude. Nothing has been cropped to make the country look compact.

Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m. Disputed areas: Natural Earth (public domain). Equirectangular projection, standard parallel 11.7°N — distances and areas away from that parallel are stretched. View: 56.3°W–80.8°E, 66.6°S–90.0°N.

Disputed areas

none listedNo disputed area in this source overlaps Norway. That is not a finding that none exists — the source says plainly that its list is not exhaustive.

  1. News sources

    2 sources from Norwayin Aletheia’s registry. Coverage here is thin.

    • Aftenposten
    • NRK

    sources not yet assessed · state-affiliated source present

  2. Official alerts

    An official alerting source is connected for Norway: MeteoAlarm (EUMETNET).

    This says a source is connected — not whether any warning is in force right now. Open Alerts for that.

  3. National legislature

    Stortinget ↗

    Wikidata P856 · link checked and reachable

  4. Local time

    One time zone.

    The current time needs JavaScript, so it is not shown here rather than shown wrong.

  5. Conditions at the capital

    Right now in Oslo

    17°C / 62°FOvercastwind 18 km/h / 11 mph

    Checked 12 minutes ago

    Conditions at the capital, not across the country.

    Weather from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)

    Oslo, 2026-09-20Sunrise 6:56 AM · sunset 7:23 PM12h 27m of daylightWaxing gibbous, 65% lit

  6. At a glance

    ISO code
    NORuncited
    Driving side
    rightcited
    Mains voltage
    230 Vcited
    Capital
    Oslocited
    Official languages
    4 official languagesBokmål, Norwegian, Nynorsk, Sámi
    uncited
    Plug types
    Type C (Europlug), Type F (Schuko)cited · letters are the IEC classification
    Official website
    norge.no ↗Bokmålnoreg.no ↗NynorskFrom the source's "official website" statement, kept here because the site is a government portal. We have not tested whether it loads.uncited
    Country-branding site
    norway.no ↗Not a government portal.

  7. Population and economy

    Population

    Population of Norway: the UN's 2025 estimate is 5,610,870 people. The page shows that figure carried forward at about 4.4 more an hour. It is a projection, not a count, and the figure shown changes as time passes.

    Not a count. This is the UN's 2025 estimate carried forward at the rate implied by the two most recent published years — arithmetic, not a measurement. Nobody counts a country continuously, and the true figure right now is unknown.

    Where this number comes from
    Base figure
    5,610,870 people
    For the year
    2025 — a mid-year estimate, so it describes 1 July 2025
    Compared with
    5,572,279 people in 2024
    Rate applied
    about 4.4 more an hour (38,617 a year)
    How that rate was found
    The difference between the 2024 and 2025 estimates, divided by the time between them. It is our arithmetic on two published figures — the source does not publish this rate.
    Carried forward
    0 days beyond the base figure's date
    Source
    UN World Population Prospects and national statistical offices, compiled by the World Bank · source updated 2026-07-13
    The source's own definition
    The values shown are midyear estimates.

    THIS NUMBER IS NOT A MEASUREMENT, AND ITS MOVEMENT IS NOT NEWS. No country counts its population continuously. A census is periodic, and every figure between censuses — including the estimate this starts from — is a projection. What you are watching is that projection's trend applied to the clock on your phone. It moves because time passes, not because anyone was born or died. Treat the digits beyond the first few as arithmetic rather than knowledge: the trend is real, the precision is not.

    Population
    5,610,8702025
    GDP
    530,755,719,4392025
    GDP per capita
    94,5942025
    Life expectancy at birth
    83.2 years2024
    Exports
    45.4%2025
    Imports
    33.7%2025

    Compiled by the World Bank from: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wpp/, publisher: UN Population Division · source updated 2026-07-13 · each figure is dated because the most recent value was chosen by us, not by the source

  8. In this country's own words

    Alt for Norge
    the state's official mottovia Wikidata (CC0)
    Founded
    0900
    National anthem
    Ja, vi elsker dette landet

    Everything in this section is quoted, with its source. Aletheia does not write about a country's history, culture or religion in its own words — where there is nothing to quote, there is no section.

  9. World Heritage Sites

    8 World Heritage Sitesshow all
    1. Urnes Stave Church · inscribed 1979
    2. Bryggen · inscribed 1979
    3. Røros Mining Town and the Circumference · inscribed 1980
    4. Rock carvings at Alta · inscribed 1985
    5. Vega Archipelago · inscribed 2004
    6. Struve Geodetic Arc · inscribed 2005 · shared with Belarus, Estonia and 7 more countries
    7. West Norwegian Fjords – Geirangerfjord and Nærøyfjord · inscribed 2005
    8. Rjukan–Notodden Industrial Heritage Site · inscribed 2015

    Register from Wikidata (CC0) · in inscription order · links go to UNESCO

  10. Emergency numbers

    • 110listed as: fire department
    • 112listed as: police
    • 113listed as: emergency medical services

    Shown in numerical order, which is not an order of priority.

    Listed by the source, mostly from ITU-T E.129. We have not dialled these numbers, and where a service is named it is the source's description rather than ours.

  11. Explore this country

  12. Regions

    First-level regions as GeoNames lists them, shown alphabetically · each page computes daylight at the region’s own coordinates

  13. Currency

    NOK

News coverage here is counted from Aletheia’s bundled source registry plus the sources the Host had admitted as of 2026-09-14. A source admitted since that date has not reached this page yet, so this is a floor rather than a total.

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