Norway is a sovereign constitutional monarchy, located principally in the western part of Scandinavia in Northern Europe.
[1] The country has land borders with Sweden, Finland, and Russia, while the United Kingdom and the Faroe Islands lie to its west across the North Sea and Denmark to its south across the Skagerrak strait.
The country's long and glaciated Atlantic coastline is deeply indented by fjords, rising precipitously to high plateaux.
[a] Norway is the world's third largest oil exporter after Russia and Saudi Arabia and the petroleum industry accounts for around a quarter of GDP.
[3] Other main industries include food processing, shipbuilding, metals, chemicals, mining and pulp and paper products.