Norway (Kongeriket Norge) is a constitutional monarchy, it's not part of the European Union, it occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, bordering the North Sea in southwest and the Skagerrak inlet to the south, the North Atlantic Ocean (Norwegian Sea) in the west and the Barents Sea to the northeast, Norway bordered by Sweden to the east, Finland in the northeast, and Russia in the far northeast. The Kingdom of Norway also includes the Arctic island territories of Svalbard and Jan Mayen. Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic Ocean and Peter I Island and Queen Maud Land in Antarctica are also external dependencies. Norway is divided into nineteen first-level administrative regions called " fylker", Oslo is the state capital, main cities are also: Bergen, Kristiansand, Alesund, Trondheim, Stavanger, Narvik, e Tromsø.

Norway has one of the longest and most rugged coastlines in the world, much of the country is dominated by mountainous or high terrain, with a great variety of natural features caused by prehistoric glaciers. The most noticeable of these are the fjords: Deep grooves cut into the land flooded by the sea following the end of the Ice Age, the longest is Sognefjorden.  In the south-west side part of the country are reached the highest altitudes (2000-2500 metres); between the highest tops, are the Glittertind (2,470 m), Snøhetta (2,286 m), Rondane (2,183 m).