Kingdom Norway is in Northern Europe, in the west and the extreme north of Scandinavian peninsula. The country has the general boundary lines with Sweden, Finland and Russia, in the north of its coast is flowed about by Barents sea, in the west - Norwegian and northern by seas, in the south of a strait Skagerak abjoints Norway from Denmark. Norway posesses archipelago Spitsbergen with island Bear at Arctic ocean, Jan Mayen island in Northern Atlantic, and also island Buve at shores of Antarctica. More than 1/3 terrains of the country are had behind a Polar circle. The square of Norway - 387 thousand sq. km (including. Terrain of islands 62 thousand sq. km), the population - 4,3 million persons. Capital - Oslo.
