Norway

The Kingdom of Norway (Kongeriket Norge; Kongeriket Noreg) is a constitutional monarchy located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe . The capital is Oslo .

It produces so much oil that it is said that if Texas is to the United States , Norway is to Europe .[13] Because the oil and natural gas industries are Norway's key industries , it has an economic structure that is structurally different from that of most other European countries.

Norwegian abbreviations are Nurge ( Bok Mall : Norge, /ˈnɔɾɡə /) or Norg ( Nurosk : NOREG, /ˈnoɾɛɡ /).

It comes from Norgr , an abbreviation of Norðvegr, which means 'to go north' in ancient Nordic , and moves to English to become Norway.

The English name Norway is transformed by Nord Wei , an ancient English notation of Norðvegr . On the other hand, the word ' Norwegian ', which means ' Norwegian ' and ' Norwegian', is different from the influence of Norvegia, a medieval Latin notation.

In Chinese characters, it is called Nawi (那威) and Nawi Kingdom (那威王國). Also, there are cases where it is called Nakwi (諾威).

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It originated in 1285 when King Eirik II established the emblem of a yellow lion holding an ax on a red background and declared himself the eternal king of Norway (Latin: Rex Perpetuus Norvegiae).


Seal of Eirik II, 1285.


1285 - 1387


1319 ~ 1387 (Union of Sweden and the East, Polkung Dynasty)


1387 - 1844 Small Coat of Arms


Addition of Danish coat of arms during the reign of Margaret I (August 10, 1387 - October 28, 1412).


Other sentences of Margrete I. Samwang, a symbol of Sweden, has been added, but Margrete I's father -in -law is King Sweden. Mangus IV (Norwegian King Mangus VIII), and her husband is King Norwegian Hokon VII .


Erik VII (October 28, 1412 ~ September 24, 1439) Added Red Griffon , symbolizing Pomer .


Christopher III (April 9, 1440 -January 5, 1448) The blue and white rhombus pattern symbolizes the Bavaria ruled by the Batelsbach family[16] addition. Add a red background that symbolizes the king of Bend and the island .


Christian I , Hans , Christian II (January 5, 1448 - January 20, 1523) The emblem of two red stripes on a yellow background symbolizing the Oldenburg dynasty was added in the center, and the emblem of two blue lions symbolizing Schleswig and a white nettle emblem on a red background symbolizing Holstein were added.


Frederik I (January 20, 1523 -April 10, 1533) Deleted the symbol of Sweden. Delete yellow.


Swan of Christian III (July 4, 1534 -January 1, 1559), which symbolizes the samangan, the return of yellow, and the symbol of Sutormarine (in the south of Hamburg) .


Frederick II , Christian IV , Frederick III , Christian V (January 1, 1559 - August 25, 1699) A yellow cross on a blue background symbolizing Delmenhorst and cavalrymen symbolizing Dietmarschen were added.


Frederick IV , Christian VI , Frederick V , Christian VII , Frederick VI (August 25, 1699 - 1814) Crowns added. Added Elefantordenen and Dannebrogordenen chains.


May 17, 1814 – November 4, 1814 ( Christian VIII )


November 4, 1814 – July 10, 1844 ( United Kingdom of Sweden and Norway )


July 10, 1844 – December 14, 1905 ( United Kingdom of Sweden and Norway )


December 14, 1905 - present. By Eilif Peterssen.


December 14, 1905 - present. (small)


December 16, 1992 - present. For Director only. By Sverre Morken.

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It belongs to Northern Europe , facing the North Sea to the southwest and the Arctic Ocean to the north. Beyond the Scandinavian Mountains on the Scandinavian Peninsula , it borders Finland and Sweden . The Arctic Ocean border extends to Russia, so Norway has a complete monopoly on the coastline to the Atlantic Ocean and the Arctic among Scandinavian countries.[17] , It is also adjacent to Russia at the northeastern end of the Arctic Circle.[18] Although it does not border directly, it faces Denmark , Germany , and the Netherlands to the south, England ( Scotland ) to the southwest across the North Sea, and Iceland to the northwest across the Norwegian Sea .

Norway's coast is a representative example of a fjord coast, and is very winding and complex. The total length of the coastline exceeds approximately 50,000 km, making it the second-longest coastline among countries in the world. (No. 1 is Canada) However, because it is so complex, the exact number varies depending on the measurement standard. According to the fractal principle, the more accurately you measure by reducing the unit of measurement, the longer the total length becomes. In other words, if you measure the coastline of a country like Russia precisely, it may come out to be longer than that of Norway. It is best to understand this record as showing that Norway put a lot of effort into measuring its coastline. See coastline paradox . In any case, due to the extremely complex coastline, many ferry lines connecting coastal cities have been developed. Because it is a sea, it costs a lot of money to build a pier and the construction is difficult, but since the population is small, all we can do is make do with boats.

Even when he was independent from Sweden, Iceland was considered to be the most difficult country to live in Northern Europe, but in the 1970s, he reversed Denmark and Sweden, the former ruling countries, including income levels and infrastructure. He was overturned by Denmark and Sweden, and overturned his position.[19]

Norway is one of the cleanest places on earth where humans live. The population density is extremely low compared to the land area, and the manufacturing industry is barely developed, so it boasts a natural environment blessed by nature.

If you go sightseeing in an Arctic city like Tromsø , you can see the spectacular fjord during the day and the beautiful Aurora at night, but travel to and entry into this area is restricted in winter. This is because after the sun sets on November 25th, it does not rise again for two months until January 27th. It is said that Norwegian youth complain about this natural environment, calling it a very boring country with nothing but forests and reindeer dung.

As mentioned above, the coast is very warm in winter compared to its latitude, and the average temperature in January on Mosoewi Island, which is 71° north latitude , is -2.4℃, the same as the January temperature in Seoul .

In December 2009, the Norwegian Spiral Fire Incident occurred. Various speculations floated around, but it was actually caused by Russia's new missile launch.[20]

The Svalbar International Seed Storage , built on the Svalbar Islands, located in the Arctic, is stored in the Seeds of all plants around the world in preparation for the end of the Earth.

If Queen Maud Land and Peter I Island , which are not recognized by the Antarctic Treaty, are treated as Norwegian territory, Norway will become the only country with territory on both Antarctica and the North Pole . During the British Empire, Britain also ruled Canada and claimed sovereignty over British Antarctica, but lost the Arctic due to Canada's independence. Interestingly, Roald Amundsen, who was the first to conquer both poles, was also Norwegian.

Because mainland Norway is directly in contact with the North Sea Warm Current, the western coastal areas have a west coast maritime climate (Cfb, Cfc), with weather that feels like late fall to early spring all year round, like Iceland . Waterfalls and rapids are common, and even in modern times, most of the electricity used in the country is supplied by hydroelectric power. On the other hand, the eastern region, including the capital Oslo, is located a bit inland and has a cold humid climate (Dfb, Dfc). Except in mountainous areas, the average temperature rarely drops below -10℃ in midwinter.[21] The northernmost inland area of ​​Finnmark goes much lower than that, but is still mild considering it is 70°N. Almost the northernmost point of 70°N[22] Even in the city of Tromsø , the average temperature in January is only -3.7℃.[23] It is quite north of 66°33' 44" North latitude, the beginning of the Arctic Circle.[24] This is a very warm axis.

Of course, as warm as the coast is, it is quite different when you go inland. Even in the south, there are places in the highlands where the average temperature in January drops to -10℃, and it gets relatively cold the further east you go. The average January temperature at Røros (650m), known as the coldest place in the south, is -9.6°C, and the extreme value is -50.2°C, recorded in 1914, which holds the record for southern Norway. Lillehammer (240m), about 130km north of Oslo, where the coldest Winter Olympics ever were held, is about -6.1°C in January.[25] Therefore, the inland areas are slightly colder than Sweden and Finland at the same latitude due to the influence of higher altitudes. So, some say that the southern part of Norway is paradoxically colder than the northern part, but the northern part of the country is so small that, except for the state of Finnmark, there is practically no place off the coast.[26] karasjok in inland Finland, the coldest place in Norway[27] In this village, the average temperature in January is -15.4℃.[28][29] And the lowest temperature recorded in Norwegian observation history was -51.4℃ .
Still, most cities in Norway are located along the coast, and 80% of the population lives within 10km of the coastline, so there are not many things to experience. However, because the latitude is high and the humidity is even, the perceived temperature is cold. As in Northern Europe, most of the sunlight is concentrated in summer.

Svalbard and Jan Mayen are located in the Arctic region and have a tundra climate (Et), which is very cold. Phenomena such as midnight sun, polar night, and aurora are also observed.

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Norway's population has not grown as much as other countries in Western Europe, but it has been growing slowly. Norway's population has continued to grow little by little, although there have been periods of very slow population growth that has never been stagnant.

However, like most European countries, Norway also suffered from a low birth rate and a serious aging population, so it began receiving a lot of immigrants in the late 20th century, and the number increased especially sharply in the 21st century. In fact, the population of Norway in 2000 was 4,470,000, but in 2021 it increased by about 920,000 to 5,390,000, but during the same period, the number of pure Norwegians increased by only 30,000, from 4,000,000 to 4,030,000.

The total population from 1950 to the present is:

The birth population from 2000 to the present is as follows.

Life expectancy from 1965 to the present is as follows:

The fertility rates from 1965 to the present are as follows:

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Grades are not assigned in Norwegian primary schools. In middle school, grades are given on a 6-grade system (grade 1 is the lowest grade, grade 6 is the best grade).

Our English proficiency is among the highest in the world compared to non-English speaking countries. Norwegians have a very high command of English, ranking 4th or 5th out of 113 countries in the EF EPI (Education First English Proficiency Index), the English proficiency index of EF.

Bunad is a traditional Norwegian costume.[30] It is called , and it is mainly worn on May 17th, which is Constitution Day. On this day, a large-scale parade of people holding national flags will be held from 10 am to 1 pm. More than 60,000 children selected from about 100 schools will march, and about 100,000 people will take to the streets wearing traditional Norwegian costumes.

Buna's costume design differs from region to region.

Edvard Munch (1863-1944), an expressionist painter famous for The Scream , was Norwegian. He is a great painter produced by Norway and is considered one of the pioneers of expressionism along with Gauguin, Engsor, Van Gogh, and Hodler, with works that subjectively capture his inner psychology, including love, pain, death, and anxiety.

One thing you must not miss when traveling to Oslo is the Vigeland Sculpture Park. This is a large park that collects 212 sculptures created by Gustav Vigeland (1869-1943) over the course of his life, themed around various human emotions. Wherever you go in Norway, you have to pay to use the restroom, so it's a good idea to catch one before it closes and share it with your group.

In Norway, after Advent Monday ends , there are no holidays until Christmas on December 25th, and there is no substitute holiday system, so if Christmas falls on a Saturday , there will be no weekday holidays for nearly a year until next Easter . Alcohol cannot be sold on public holidays and Sundays, and alcohol can only be sold until 3 p.m. on the day before a public holiday and on Saturday. Therefore, if a public holiday falls on a Saturday or Monday , alcohol may not be sold for as short as 2 days or as long as 4 days. For example, in 2017, Christmas fell on a Monday, so according to Norwegian law, alcohol could not be sold from 3 PM on December 23 to December 27.

The Church of Norway, which has had the status of state religion for a long time since the reign of Christian III in the early and mid-16th century, is overwhelming. As of 2024, 61.7% of all citizens belong to the Norwegian Church. The next largest religion was traditionally Catholic, but Islam reversed its influence due to the influence of immigrants from the Middle East due to the European refugee crisis in the 2010s.

Looking at it this way, it would seem that most of the people are devout Christians, but in reality, only a few people go to church regularly due to the unique atmosphere of secularism in Northern Europe. Only 3% of the population consistently attend church every Sunday, and only 10% go regularly more than once a month. Most of them are so-called apathetic people who believe in God but do not go to church .

The Church of Norway had the status of a state religion until the 2012 constitutional amendment, and the state carried out church affairs and provided funding to the seminary. However, due to the constitutional amendment, it lost its status as a state church and became an independent corporation. However, its influence still remains: the King of Norway must unconditionally be a member of the Church of Norway, and the Church of Norway is mentioned in the constitution as the national church . In addition, because of the system that requires children to be registered unconditionally if one of the parents is a member of the Norwegian Church, the playing field is still close to being lopsided .

Before 2008, it was mandatory to take Christian subjects in public schools, but when atheists filed a lawsuit at the European Court of Human Rights claiming that this was a violation of religious freedom , and won, the Norwegian government changed the subjects to philosophy subjects. However, it is said that only the subject name was changed and the content was slightly changed.

Edvard Grieg (1843 ~ 1907) , famous for the Peer Gynt Suite ( # ) , is a representative Norwegian musician.

A-HA, a world-renowned new Wave Band, who became popular in innovative music videos in the 1980s, is also from Norway. Take on me music video.[45]

You Call It Love is the theme song for the 1988 French film <You Call It Love (original title: L'etudiante (The Student))> starring Sophie Marceau.[46] Karoline Krüger, who sang the song, is also from Norway.

In modern times, Norway is famous as one of the three major heavy metal countries in Northern Europe, along with Finland, the founder of melodic power metal and the so-called Children of Bodom style Finnish melodic death metal, and Sweden, the birthplace of melodic death metal, Gothenburg . When the Norwegian national soccer team went to the World Cup in 1994, metal vocalist Jorn Lande, who played in bands such as Master Plan and Yngwie Malmsteen, sang the cheering song on behalf of Norway . Norway is the country in the world where black metal , among heavy metals , is the most developed, and among black metal bands, Dimmu Borger once topped the Norwegian charts. The Abrahadabra album released in 2010 ranked second. Mayhem, in which Euronymous, the victim of the Euronymous murder case, was active, is a representative black metal band. However, due to the burning down of a national treasure wooden church and various misdeeds and murders committed by black metal musicians, it is considered quite a dark history in Norway.[47]

Aqua 's female vocalist Lene Nüström, who sang the dance number Barbie Girl , which was a global hit in 1997 and is occasionally heard on entertainment shows even 20 years later, and Turn Back Time , the theme song to the movie 'Sliding Doors' starring Gwyneth Paltrow, grew up in Norway. Due to the influence of his father, who was an active colonel, he volunteered to join the Norwegian army called 'Home Guard' and completed his military service. Despite his cute voice, he is an expert marksman with heavy weapons such as bazookas and machine guns.

Secret Garden, an instrumental band formed by Norwegian pianist and composer Rolf Lövland and Irish violinist Fionnula Sherry, is also loved in Korea for its clear and clean Nordic sensibility. Secret Garden - Sigma (Live).[48]

In addition to Secret Garden, another song famous for its Nordic sensibility is Jeg ser deg søte lam performed by Norwegian violinist Susanne Lundeng. Its meaning is "a precious person by your side" and was often used as background music. If you listen to it, you may say, “Ah, this song!” #

'A better day' is a famous song sung by jtL , a group formed by Woohyuk Jang , Tony Ahn , and Jaewon Lee after the disbandment of HOT , and is also derived from the Norwegian folk song 'Vårsøg'. 'A better day' is the original song sung by Multicyde, and it is easy to think of it as a song that JTL adapted or covered , but Multicyde is also a Norwegian hip-hop group and simply reinterpreted Vårsøg in a hip-hop version and sang it as 'A better day'. Vårsøg, paraphrased, means “waiting for spring,” and spring here refers not only to seasonal spring, but also to liberation from Nazi Germany . When JTL released 'A better day', the song evokes a strange sense of déjà vu and the reality of the persecution from SM Entertainment . # # The harmonica version performed by Norwegian harmonist Sigmund Groven and others , as well as the version sung by Norwegian singer Anna Vada, are also famous. In addition to being sung by JTL, Vårsøg itself also has a version sung by Sumi Jo , and was featured as an insert song in the 2003 drama Piano.

Sissel Kyrkjebø, who was originally supposed to sing the Titanic theme song My Heart Will Go On sung by Celine Dion, was loved in Northern Europe for her fairy-like, beautiful voice. In the Titanic movie, you can hear a sad voice in the music played.[49] He also sang the theme song for the 1994 Winter Olympics held in Lillehammer, Norway.[50] If of the original Bread song, which was directly remade and used as advertising music[51] There is also.

Quite a few female singers, including Astrid S , Sigrid , Iselin Solheim, and Skaar, are evaluated as having fairy-like voices.

D'Sound, familiar to funk/acid jazz fans, is also from Norway and has come to Korea several times to express his gratitude to the fans. Link to the Do I Need A Reason music video that first made D'Sound famous.[52]

Female duo M2M and Rene Malin, who briefly gained attention in the 2000s, are also from Norway. He sang Don't Say You Love Me, a song from the Pokémon movie version. Another song, 'Pretty Boy', from the first full-length album that includes this song, was also used in the chocolate commercial for which actor Yoo Ji-tae served as an advertising model.

Kings of Convenience and Loyx Sop are also musicians from Norway that cannot be left out.

Singer AURORA, who featured Into the Unknown in Frozen 2, is also a Norwegian singer-songwriter .

Ylvis from <The Fox> is also from Norway. However, they are more like broadcasters than musicians.

Stargate, a Euro-pop production team responsible for producing Ne-Yo, Beyoncé, Rihanna, Ylvis, etc., also consists of two Norwegian musicians, Thor Erik Hermansen and Mikkel Stoll Eriksen. So Sick was Ne-Yo's first hit song.[53] You can feel the Northern European sentiment in the elegant melody line and clean half riff.

Large entertainment companies such as SM, which fosters Korean K-Pop singers, also produce sophisticated songs from Northern European composers such as Denmark, Norway, and Sweden in order to create music that resonates with the emotional Korean sensibility and can target the English-American and European markets. It became a hot topic when they said they would receive it. Norwegian composers participated in BoA's Hurricane Venus , Girls' Generation's Tell Me Your Wish , I Got a Boy (Ann Judit Beek and three others from the Norwegian composition team Design Music) , and SHINee's Dream Girl .

Kygo , who is called the pioneer of tropical house, was also born in Singapore, but his nationality is Norwegian.

Known for his progressive house genre, electronica producer and DJ Alan Walker holds dual Norwegian and British citizenship and lives in Bergen .

K-391 , a pioneer of slow BPM EDM, inspired by the above Alan Walker, is also from Norway.

Norway is also a world-class modern jazz powerhouse. In the winter, festivals that hand out free food, such as 'Culture Night', are often held (the taste is so-so, but free soup and snacks comfort travelers who are tired of the high cost of living), and you can see Norwegian jazz bands here. However, other than New York-style jazz, which is rooted in American bebop jazz, they do their own Nordic jazz that cannot be heard anywhere else.

Inger Marie, who speaks comfortable folk jazz of the Norah Jones style , remakes Carol King's 'Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow'[54] ) was loved by the fans. She has been singing for more than 20 years and became famous in her late 40s, but she seems to be very satisfied with herself. She also came to Korea a few times to perform.

American jazz theorist George Russell, who is famous for his book 'The Lydian Chromatic Concept', which was also influenced by Bill Evans and Miles Davis, was also influenced by George Russell, who toured Nordic universities to play and lecture. Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek played radio Just as it was said that they learned jazz by listening to and copying John Coltrane's performances, self-taught students also created a lot of original jazz. This originality of Scandinavian jazz, which was possible due to the distance from the center of America or Europe, can also be found in the music of the Swedish jazz piano trio EST (Esbjøjön Svensson Trio), whose leader passed away in 2008. Link to EST's live performance.[55]

In summer, Norwegian international jazz festivals such as Molde Jazz Festival and Trondheim Jazz Festival are held. However, if you go to Oslo, the capital of Norway, there are almost no jazz clubs. It is surprising to see where such great music comes from, if you go to a record shop and listen to the music of Norwegian musicians.

The album jacket can be found in the album jacket that Rainbow Studio (former Talent Studio), the main recording room of the German ECM (modern music) label, is famous for its beautiful jacket artwork for European jazz fans and has been well -received for large -scale album exhibitions. In the 1970s and the 1980s, the progressive jazz musicians who were evacuated from the Jazz scene in the 1970s to confusion and mannerism, Gary Burton, Keith Jae, Fat Messiny, Ralph Tau, and Chic Korea, as well as Jan Garvarec, Ketill Ville Star, Terry, Leafdal, Terry, and Yon All alums containing gem -like performances such as Christensen, Aril Andersen, Everhard Weber, Eudun Clive, and Sichel Andersen are all Norwegian engineer Jan Erik Kongsuu (a jazz guitarist and a pianist Roh Young -sim 's music sound engineering) Born through.

ECM has a lot of styles of styles. In particular, in the 1970s and 1980s, it was established as a high -quality label by presenting alternatives to modern music. Kim Deok -soo's Samulnori plaque was the first to play an album with German fusion band Red Sun.

Conductor Myung-Whun Chung also released a collection of classical piano pieces (which, in his own words, he wanted to play for his granddaughter) with the help of his son Jeong Seon, a jazz guitarist and composer who works as a producer at ECM.

Tord Gustavsen, who is currently the star of ECM and also the pianist of Silje Nergard Band, is also quietly gaining popularity with his relatively easy-to-listen jazz piano trio or quartet.

Bugge Wesseltoft, a producer and pianist who has played an important role in the Norwegian popular music scene since the 1970s, learned music on his own without going through any music education institution under the influence of his father, a jazz guitarist. In 1996, his band New Conceptions of Jazz received the 'Jazz Album of the Year' award in Norway for the album 'Sharing'. As a producer, he came to Korea in 2001 to promote Beady Belle, an electronic band he had discovered. Beady Belle - Ghosts.[67] In Europe and Norway, he is in the spotlight as an electro-jazz musician who combines electronic music and jazz. They can be said to be the pioneers of Nu Jazz, a cutting-edge modern jazz that mainly plays electro music through dynamic dialogue between members through live interplay rather than using a computer or rhythm machine. Currently, Nerve, led by Swiss drummer Jojo Mayer, pianist Brad Mehldau, and drummer Mark Guiliana, are doing electronic jazz, but they already pioneered this genre with other Nordic musicians over 20 years ago. In 1997, he established his own independent record label, JazzLand Recordings.

The KKV (Kirkelig Kulturverksted) label, which stands for Church Culture Music, also has quality folk, jazz, and pop records, and can be purchased at some large Internet record stores .

Silje Nergarrd, who released his first album in the 90s on EMI in the UK with the help of Pat Mesny, also had a big impact in Japan, and after coming out of EMI, he released a Norwegian-language, jazz-influenced pop/pop album released by KKV. After playing folk, he moved to Universal in the 2000s and continued to maintain his popularity by moving to pop-like jazz that was more familiar to the public.

As a country with world-class welfare development, the government supports cultural funds for musicians and artists, and provides music genres that the public can enjoy and musicians can express, from orchestras and black metal to folk music, electro, and free jazz. A very wide range of expression is a characteristic of Norwegian music.

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Although it has a small population , it is the country that has won the most medals at the Winter Olympics and is the country with the most overall wins (11 times) at the Winter Olympics.[75] By the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, there will be 148 gold medals, 133 silver medals, and 124 bronze medals, a total of 405, overwhelming the performance of other countries. At the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics , he won the overall championship with an overwhelming score of 16 gold medals, 8 silver medals, and 13 bronze medals, with a total of 37 medals.

It easily surpasses the medal count of other winter sports powerhouses, such as the United States , the world's most powerful country and the country with the most wins at the Summer Olympics , Canada , Germany , and Russia , which are also among the overall favorites for the Winter Olympics , Finland and Sweden , its Nordic rivals , and Switzerland and Austria , which are powerhouses in alpine skiing.

Compared to neighboring countries Finland and Sweden, the accessibility to winter sports is overwhelmingly good due to the mountainous terrain represented by the Choren Mountains.[76] It is certainly a great thing to compete with countries such as the United States, Canada, Germany, and Russia, which have much larger populations and winter sports infrastructure as good as Norway.

The most popular and strong sport is Nordic skiing, whose name comes from Norway.[77] There are cross-country skiing , which involves running a marathon wearing skis , ski jumping , which involves skiing down and then jumping , Nordic combined , which combines cross-country and ski jumping , and biathlon, which involves shooting after cross-country skiing .

Due to the nature of the terrain, where there is a lot of snow in the winter, skiing has become a part of Norwegians' daily life, to the point where they go to school on skis since they were students, and the people's enthusiastic support for Nordic skiing and the government's active investment are made. In the case of cross-country skiing, the local government establishes a cross-country ski resort and opens it to residents for free, so you can go cross-country skiing in the winter like hiking on the weekend in Korea. It is also very popular as a sport to watch, so if you turn on Norwegian TV on a winter weekend, you can watch endless skiing broadcasts.

Another ski sport, alpine skiing, is also quite good. A representative example is Henrik Christophersen .

He is also good at speed skating. Speed ​​skating is strong in men's middle and long distances, and almost all medals were won in men's middle and long distances at the Winter Olympics. Women are relatively weak. Men's middle and long distance distances have also been lagging behind other powerhouses recently. Figure skating produced a legendary athlete called Sonya Henney , who was active in the 1920s and 1930s , but since then, interest has faded and no athletes have achieved high results on the international stage. He didn't even participate in figure skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics held in his country.

At the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics, the Turin disaster occurred with only 2 gold medals, to the point where you might wonder if the country was in first place with 13 gold medals in the previous competition. Due to a shocking slump in the skiing event, which was the pride of the country, the country began to gnash its teeth at the next competition, which continued into the Olympic three-peat starting in Sochi .

Hege Böko made a brief appearance at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics . He competed in speed skating. Böko's brother, Horvar Böko, is also a speed skater and represents Norway in the middle and long distances, and has much better results in international competitions than Hege Böko. Horvar Böko won a bronze medal in the men's 1,500m at the Vancouver Olympics and also won a gold medal in the men's team pursuit event at the Pyeongchang Olympics.

They ranked second in medal count after Russia at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics and first in medal count at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. Since they were a team with 11 gold medals along with Russia, which was the host country at the time and had many biased decisions, it is safe to say that they were the best in two consecutive competitions. Afterwards, due to the drug scandal in Russia, the Sochi Games eventually ranked first, and the legend of Norway's Winter Olympics began with this competition.

At the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics , Horvar Lorenzen won the first speed skating gold medal in 70 years in the men's 500m, and he also won gold in the men's team pursuit. South Korea won the silver medal in both events, and in the men's 500m, they won the gold medal, beating silver medalist Cha Min-gyu by 0.01 seconds.

At the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics , a total of 37 medals were won, including 16 gold medals, 8 silver medals, and 13 bronze medals. It is the first country to win more than 15 gold medals at the Winter Olympics, and at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics , it won 14 gold medals, the same as Germany (ranking first in terms of gold, silver, and bronze medals and total medals, ahead of Germany), and this has been renewed. The 16 gold medals and 37 total medals are incredible results, equivalent to 5th to 8th place even by Summer Olympics standards.

At the 2026 Milan/Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Olympics, the skiing event is leading the way even though it has not even started properly. Due to this, there is speculation that a fourth consecutive victory is likely, and if achieved, it will establish itself as an overwhelming superpower, no different from the United States at the Summer Olympics. And they broke the record for the most gold medals for a single country from the previous competition to 18, confirming their 4th consecutive victory and reigning supreme at the Winter Olympics. Cross-country skier Johannes Klebo achieved a historic 11 gold medals and 6 competition wins, setting a unique record in Winter Olympic history.

Ice hockey is also a popular sport. Even though it lags far behind its Nordic rivals Finland and Sweden, it ranks among the top in the world. They also produced Mats Sucarello, who is active in the NHL .

At the Summer Olympics, they are showing strength in sailing , rowing , canoeing , and shooting . However, the number of medals won in the past Summer Olympics is 56 gold medals, 49 silver medals, and 47 bronze medals, a total of 152, which is definitely less than that of the Winter Olympics. Although he was often in the top 10 in the early Olympics, he has not been in the top 10 since the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, when he placed 10th overall. At the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, he won four bronze medals.

Soccer is also popular. The Norway women's national soccer team , along with Sweden , is considered the powerhouse of women's soccer in Northern Europe. On the men's Norway national football team, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer , John Arne Riise , Alexander Sørlot , Martin Odegaard , and Erling Haaland are well-known Norwegian star players. In the past, they have advanced to the World Cup finals a total of four times, and their highest performance was the quarterfinals at the 2026 North and Central America World Cup . Coach Jon Andersen, who served as the coach of the North Korean national soccer team until March 2018 and the coach of Incheon United FC until April 2019, is also from this country. They also defeated the Brazil national soccer team in the 2026 North and Central America World Cup .

Handball is also a popular sport. The domestic handball league is also quite comprehensive, with more than 10 men's and women's teams in the first division alone. In international competitions, women tend to be stronger. At the 1988 Seoul Olympics , they lost to South Korea in the final. Afterwards, in the final match between South Korea and the Soviet Union, the Norwegian team cheered for South Korea, because if South Korea won this match, South Korea could have won the gold medal and Norway could have won the silver medal. In the end, South Korea defeated the Soviet Union. South Korea won gold for the first time in an Olympic ball game, and Norway won silver. At the 1992 Barcelona Olympics , they met again in the final, and South Korea won 28:21, giving South Korea the gold medal and Norway the silver medal. At the 1996 Atlanta Olympics , South Korea won the silver medal and Norway placed fourth. At the 2000 Sydney Olympics , Norway defeated South Korea by just one point, 22:21, in the bronze medal match, taking home the bronze medal.

At the 2004 Athens Olympics , Norway did not qualify, and Korea won the silver medal after losing the game against Denmark in overtime in the final. At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, South Korea and Norway faced each other in the semifinals. Here, Norway defeated South Korea by just one point, 29:28. However, the question of whether the last goal was recognized was a problem, and it became the subject of much controversy due to an incorrect referee. In the end, Norway advanced to the final and defeated Russia to win the gold medal, while South Korea defeated Hungary in the bronze medal match to win the bronze medal. At the 2012 London Olympics , they played in the same group in the preliminary round and drew 27:27. Then they met again in the semi-finals, where Norway defeated Korea 31:25 to advance to the final. Norway won the gold medal for the second consecutive time by defeating Montenegro in the final, while Korea finished fourth after losing to Spain in the bronze medal match. At the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, he won a bronze medal.

Although the player pool is limited due to the small population, excellent athletes who stand out in other sports often appear out of nowhere. Magnus Carlsen in chess , Kasper Ruud in tennis , and Jakob Ingebrigsten in middle- and long-distance athletics are famous in these fields, and the country is also good at nurturing non-mainstream sports in the country, to the extent that world-class athletes from completely unexpected places, such as Marcus Rut in decathlon and Solfried Coanda in weightlifting , often appear.

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In addition , it claims sovereignty over Queen Maud Land in Antarctica and Peter I Island in the Antarctic Sea, but it is not recognized due to the Antarctic Treaty .

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Star Wars ' planet hose scene was filmed here. Luke Skywalker 's struggles in the movie are real.

The setting of the single-player mission "Norrys" in Battlefield 5 is Norway, which was occupied by Nazi Germany during World War II . It is a mission adapted from the actual Norwegian heavy water incident and boasts extreme infiltration difficulty.[80]

Scandinavia, a Euro Truck Simulator 2 map expansion DLC including Denmark and Sweden, and ProMods , a map expansion mod[81] is the main background of

The background country for the Tempest stage of Tekken Tag Tournament 2 is Norway.

It is also the background country of Clock Tower 1 and 2.

In Sid Meier's Civilization, they appeared under the name Viking starting from Civilization 2 , but did not appear as an independent civilization, but appeared as an independent civilization in the latest work , Civilization 6 .[82] The leader was Harald III Hardrada , the first king of the Hardrada Dynasty , and reflected many of the characteristics of the Vikings.

New Asgard of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is located in Tønsberg, Norway. This area also appears as the place where Odin defeated the frost giants who invaded Midgard (Earth) . However, Avengers: Endgame was filmed in Scotland .

In the Magia Record Puella Magi Madoka ☆ Magica Gaiden, the stage of the Puella Historia 3, Vik's Walkure, is the stage of the Battle of Stamford Bridge between Norway and Stamford Bridge around the 11th century.

Appears in Age of Mythology/Norway . It is a civilization that deals with Norse mythology. However, the English version is in Norse, not Norway.

In Guts & Blackpowder, it appears as the Kingdom of Denmark and Norway. However, the Fortress of Vardöhus in Norway has fallen and Denmark's capital has also fallen, so the country is on the verge of collapse.

In World in Conflict , the struggle continues despite the Soviet invasion. In the Soviet mission, there is a mission to destroy NATO's Air Defense Command, and some Norwegian troops also appear.

※ Characters appearing in works of that country are excluded.