Map of Norway

Norway is located in Europe. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 62.0° N, 10.0° E. It shares land borders with 3 countries — Finland, Russia and Sweden — and also has its own coastline. Within Europe, a continent of 45 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, Norway is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Norway shares land frontiers with the following 3 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Norway covers about 386,224 km² (149,122 sq mi). That makes it the 61st-largest country in the world by area and the 6th-largest in Europe, larger by area than 39 of the continent’s 45 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 5,606,944, the 117th-largest in the world and the 24th-largest in Europe, accounting for about 0.8% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Norway has an average population density of about 15 people per km². Among the 45 countries of Europe it stands 24th by population and 6th by area.

The seat of government is Oslo, and the official currency is the Norwegian krone (NOK, kr), and the main official languages are Norwegian Nynorsk, Norwegian Bokmål and Sami. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+01:00.

Norway carries the ISO country codes NO and NOR, dials on the international calling code +47 and uses the .no internet domain.

Norway shares its land borders with 3 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Russia (capital Moscow, about 146,028,325 people), Sweden (capital Stockholm, about 10,605,098 people) and Finland (capital Helsinki, about 5,650,325 people).

By area, Norway is larger than 1 of these neighbours and smaller than 2 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 62.0° N, 10.0° E and opens at zoom level 5, framing Norway within Europe. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Oslo. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Norway lies about 6,882 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Norway keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+01:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +01:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Norwegian krone (NOK, kr).

The official languages are Norwegian Nynorsk, Norwegian Bokmål and Sami, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +47 and websites commonly use the .no internet domain.

In short, Norway is a coastal country in Europe, sharing land borders with 3 countries. Its capital is Oslo. Norway has a population of about 5,606,944 and covers around 386,224 km² (149,122 sq mi), ranking it 117th in the world by population and 61st by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Norway.

The flag of Norway has a red field with a large white-edged navy blue cross that extends to the edges of the field. The vertical part of this cross is offset towards the hoist side.

The flag of Norway is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.