Norway

Facts

What the numbers say about Norway

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 44.4× the size of Norway.
• Norway ranks 62nd of 239 by area but only 117th of 237 by population: it holds fewer people than its size suggests.
• At 15 people per km², Norway is the 164th most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 66°N is drawn about 6.2× too large in area, so Norway looks bigger there than it is.
• Laid out flat, Norway's main territory stretches about 2,520 km north to south and 1,470 km east to west.
• Wikidata's official figure of 385,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 382,000 km², to within 2%.

How Norway measures up

Norway holds 1.7% of the land area and 0.8% of the people of the 50 countries listed for Europe. In Northern Europe it is the 2nd largest of 14.

Where Norway sits

• Norway's centre lies at 66.4°N, 12.8°E, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, about 7,380 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 58°N to 81°N, about 2,530 km from its southern edge to its northern.
• The prime meridian passes through it.

If Norway had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Norway would have 478.5 million people. It has 5.6 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Norway would have 1.4 million people. It has 5.6 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 27.6 million.

Compare Norway

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