History of Norway and Facts about Norway

Norway is a constitutional monarchy in northern Europe, west of Sweden on the scandinavian the peninsula. Apart from Sweden, the country abuts to Russia and Finland. The islands Svalbard and Jan Mayen stands during Norwegian alone handle-bar and to be considered as a part of the kingdom, while Bouvetön in the Atlantic and Peter in: s island in the placid sea is secondary Norway but is not counted as a part of the country. Norway has also done pretensions on Queen Maud country in Antarctica.

Norway has a breeze temperate climate. The normal temperature varies bigly between different parts of the country. In wintertime the temperature varies between -15 to 1° and 10-20° in the summer. It rains from 500 to over 2000 mm.

Norway became one united country during 1000-talet and had during quantity winter lairs on 1200 over the Faroe Island, Iceland and Greenland. According to certain histories meant Digerdöden years 1349 however a hard kind and the country ended up in the shadow of its bit countries. The original Norwegian mound nobility died gradually out. During the years with Denmark lost Norway its old territories Bohuslän, Jämtland, Härjedalen, Idre and Särna to Sweden. Napoleonwar, with Denmark that allierade with France, meant slutet for the Danes' time in Norway. At a peace conference in Kiel in 1814 submitted Norway to Sweden, but without the islands in the north Atlantic. Considerable national protests resulted however in a Norwegian constitution and the choice of Kristian Fredrik to king May 17 1814. But the Swedish crown prince, the latter king man XIV Johan refused to recognize Norway's independence and Sweden went to offensive. After some weeks' wars, the Norwegian army and Norway gave up were forced to go in personnel union with Sweden through the convention in Moss. Norway retained however your new constitution with the changes that the union required and the nation alder parish chose the Swedish king man XIII to king also in Norway November 4.

Norway became fully-independent 1905. On 1890 had Norway's aversion with the union increased strong. That Sweden time on time denied Norway to have an own foreign policy and an own contributed to this. It latter had purely practically a big importance for it significant Norwegian. Majority feared that the crisis could finish that in 1814, that Sweden again would go to wars against Norway and as the strong party to dictate a bitter peace. Negotiations in Karlstad between they both countries' governments succeeded however to create a peaceful end on the union. The Norwegian throne was offered the Swedish princes, but all thanked no. It became instead Denmark's prince's Carl that thanked yes and was chosen to king Haakon VII of Norway.

April 9 1940 begun Germany their attack against Norway. The German crossing verge Blücher in Oslofjorden gave king family and the government time to escape from Oslo. The towns Molde, Elverum, Kristiansand, Steinkjer, Voss and Namsos was damaged in German bomb attacks. It took 62 days for the Germans to conquer Norway and then established they a puppet government with Vidkun Quisling as leader. The king and the legal government succeeded to escape to Great Britain. Then Germany gave up 1945 was located 350 000 German soldiers in Norway. Krigsdödade Norwegians during the 5 years is calculated to just over 10 000, of these each 700 Jews. 9 000 Norwegians had sat in German concentration camp. Finnmark was that part of Norway as been hit hardest. It escaping Wehrmacht burnt the villages and destroyed 1944 and 1945 almost all infrastructures during their experiment to detain the red army. The civilian population on closely 60 000 had to move southwards.

That is some history, now over to some facts about Norway:

Norway has 4 577 457 inhabitants (2004), of which approximately a half million building in Oslo's municipality. About Oslo lives however approximately 1 million people.

The population increases with 0,4%a year (estimate in July 2004). Of the inhabitants is 50,5%women and 49,5%men. Divided in age (2004): 0-14 years 19,8%, 15-64 years 65,4%and 65 years and older, 14,8%.

Norwegian is official language in Norway. The language comprises the two script variants book objectives and newly Norwegian. Approximately 95% of Norway's population speaks Norwegian that mother tongues. Samiska is minor and official languages in some municipalities in north Norway.

When it comes to ethnic origin, the biggest part of the population is Nordic while a smaller part in the northern part of the country is samisk or Finnish. During the last years the deep-rooted ring has constituted more than the half of befolkningstillväxten and an increased proportion of the population is immigrants, 7,3%as at January 1, 2003. The biggest foreign groups is Swedish, Danes and Pakistanis.