Norway

Norway, formally the Kingdom of Norway (Norwegian: kingdom Empire Norway), is a constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe, west of Sweden on the Scandinavian Peninsula. Apart from Sweden, Norway has land borders with Russia and Finland in the northernmost parts. The nearby islands of Svalbard, Bear Island and Jan Mayen are under Norwegian autonomy and considered as part of the kingdom, while Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic Ocean and Peter I Island in the South Pacific are subordinate to Norway, but not counted as part of the empire. Norway has also claimed the Queen Maud Land in Antarctica.

Norway as a country name could have been just as Sweden, that is the kingdom of Sweden, but the Norwegian was the cake dropped in what otherwise would have been called Norige, ie Norrike. In Nynorsk derived country name Noreg to Old Norse Norðrvegr, Norvegr, Noregr, "the road to the north" (cf. English "Norway").

Norway is one of the nations that founded the military alliance NATO in 1949 and is still there and participate in some joint military exercises annually under joint NATO flag.