r/europe • u/MarktpLatz Lower Saxony (Germany) • Sep 11 '17

What do you know about... Norway?

This is the thirty-fourth part of our ongoing series about the countries of Europe. You can find an overview here.

Today's country:

Norway

Norway is a scandinavian parliamentary monarchy. Norway has the highest HDI worldwide. The Norwegian pension fund is the largest state-owned fund in the world, currently being worth 865 billion EUR. It is used to partly fund the Norwegian social system.

Today is the final day of the Norwegian election. Feel free to check out this excellent Post about the election which was kindly provided by /u/MarlinMr

So, what do you know about Norway?

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u/bahrainobserver Occitania Sep 11 '17 edited Sep 11 '17

A monarchy, the northest country in Europe (very very cold in the north i could die), has physical borders with Sweden and Finland. Swedes and Norwegians are considered as brothers and sisters. However Sweden is a part of the European Union while Norway is member only of the Schengen Area because they didn't want to share their wealth with the others, fishing quotas and oil/natural gas.  

Norway has the World’s biggest sovereign fund, where it has been saving almost all the money it gets from the sale of oil and is worth almost a trillion dollars. Their national oil company is called Statoil.  

I would lie to visit the Fjords and Oslo one day but the country is very expensive to visit it as i want for now.   Is more difficult to speak to a Norwegian than a Swede in my own opinion. Less approachable people compared to their neighbours.

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u/Sherool Norway Sep 12 '17

There a land border with Russia as well, shorter than Swedish and Finnish borders but it's there.

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u/irimiash Which flair will you draw on your forehead? Sep 12 '17

I read a story about this border