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Norway | Country | 
United States |
King: Harald V Prime minister: Jens Stoltenberg |
Leader
| 
President: Barack Obama |
constitutional monarchy
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Political system
| Constitution-based federal republic; strong democratic tradition
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7 June 1905 (Norway declared the union with Sweden dissolved); 26 October 1905 (Sweden agreed to the repeal of the union)
| Independence date | 4 July 1776 (from Great Britain)
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4,644,460
| Population
| 303,825,000
|
79.81 years
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Life expectancy
| 78.14 years
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Oslo
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Capital
| Washington, DC
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| Oslo (population: 839,423) | Largest city | New York City (population: 8,008,280) |
| 0.968 | Human_development_index
| 0.95 |
$57,500 US
|
GDP per capita
| $48,000 US
|
100%
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Literacy rate
| 99%
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| 7.9 | Corruption perception index
| 7.3 |
| 36.1% | Percentage of women in parliament
| 16.6% |
| Abolished |
Death Penalty
| Legal |
Church of Norway 85.7%, Pentecostal 1%, Roman Catholic 1%, other Christian 2.4%, Muslim 1.8%, other 8.1% (2004)
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Religion
| Protestant 51.3%, Roman Catholic 23.9%, Mormon 1.7%, other Christian 1.6%, Jewish 1.7%, Buddhist 0.7%, Muslim 0.6%, other or unspecified 2.5%, unaffiliated 12.1%, none 4% (2007 est.)
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Bokmal Norwegian (official), Nynorsk Norwegian (official), small Sami- and Finnish-speaking minorities; note - Sami is official in six municipalities
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Languages
| English 82.1%, Spanish 10.7%, other Indo-European 3.8%, Asian and Pacific island 2.7%, other 0.7% (2000 census)
note: Hawaiian is an official language in the state of Hawaii
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| Stein Erik Hagen & family ($3.1bn US) | Wealthiest citizen
| William Gates III ($40.0bn US) |
2.5%
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Unemployment rate
| 7.2%
|
petroleum and petroleum products, machinery and equipment, metals, chemicals, ships, fish
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Exports
| agricultural products (soybeans, fruit, corn) 9.2%, industrial supplies (organic chemicals) 26.8%, capital goods (transistors, aircraft, motor vehicle parts, computers, telecommunications equipment) 49.0%, consumer goods (automobiles, medicines) 15.0% (2003)
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$469,100,000,000 $
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External Debt
| $12,250,000,000,000 US
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Norwegian kroner (NOK) per US dollar - 5.6361 (2008), 5.86 (2007), 6.418 (2006), 6.445 (2005), 6.7327 (2004)
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Currency Exchange Rate
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1.9%
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Military budget as a percentage of GDP
| 4.06%
|
| 10 | Beijing olympics medal count
| 110 |
Northern Europe, bordering the North Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, west of Sweden
| Location | North America, bordering both the North Atlantic Ocean and the North Pacific Ocean, between Canada and Mexico
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307,442 km sq
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Area
| 9,161,920 km sq
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25,148 km
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Coastline
| 19,924 km
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temperate along coast, modified by North Atlantic Current; colder interior with increased precipitation and colder summers; rainy year-round on west coast
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Climate
| mostly temperate, but tropical in Hawaii and Florida, arctic in Alaska, semiarid in the great plains west of the Mississippi River, and arid in the Great Basin of the southwest; low winter temperatures in the northwest are ameliorated occasionally in January and February by warm chinook winds from the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains
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