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___MASK77___ , officially the Kingdom ___MASK88___ ___MASK77___ ( Swedish : ), is a Scandinavian country in ___MASK30___ ___MASK25___ . It borders Norway to the ___MASK49___ and Finland to the ___MASK21___ , and is connected to ___MASK41___ in the ___MASK78___ by a bridge - tunnel across the Öresund . At , ___MASK77___ is the third - largest country in the ___MASK99___ by area , with a total population ___MASK88___ 10 . 0 million . ___MASK77___ consequently has a low population density ___MASK88___ , with the highest concentration in the southern half ___MASK88___ the country . Approximately 85 % ___MASK88___ the population lives in urban areas . ___MASK89___ ( formerly known by its Dutch name ___MASK48___ ) is a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean . Situated north of mainland Europe , it is about midway between continental Norway and the North Pole . The islands of the group range from 74 ° to 81 ° north latitude , and from 10 ° to 35 ° east longitude . The largest island is ___MASK48___ , followed by Nordaustlandet and Edgeøya . ___MASK80___ is a municipality in ___MASK72___ county , Norway . The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Sandvika . ___MASK80___ was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 . A suburb of Oslo , ___MASK80___ is located on the west coast of the city . ___MASK10___ is the capital and the ___MASK43___ populous city in Norway . It constitutes both a county and a municipality . Founded in the year 1040 , and established as a " kaupstad " or trading place in 1048 by Harald Hardrada , the city was elevated to a bishopric in 1070 and a capital under Haakon V of Norway around 1300 . Personal unions with ___MASK41___ from 1397 to 1523 and again from 1536 to 1814 and with Sweden from 1814 to 1905 reduced its influence . After being destroyed by a fire in 1624 , the city was moved closer to ___MASK72___ Fortress during the reign of Christian IV of ___MASK41___ and renamed Christiania in his honour . It was established as a municipality (" formannskapsdistrikt ") on 1 January 1838 . Following a spelling reform , it was known as Kristiania from 1877 to 1925 , at which time its original Norwegian name was restored . Nynorsk , literally New Norwegian or New Norse , is one ___MASK88___ the two written standards ___MASK88___ the Norwegian language , the other being Bokmål . From 1885 , when the parliament declared them official and equal , until new voting in 1929 , their names were Landsmål and Riksmål . The Landsmål language standard was constructed by the Norwegian linguist Ivar Aasen during the mid - 19th century , to provide a Norwegian - based alternative to Danish , which was commonly written , and to some extent spoken , in Norway at the ___MASK44___ . The official standard ___MASK88___ Nynorsk has since been significantly altered . A minor purist fraction ___MASK88___ the Nynorsk populace has stayed firm with the Aasen norm , which is known as Høgnorsk ( analogous to High German ). ___MASK9___ , also called the ___MASK9___ Islands , is a subarctic archipelago that lies northeast of the island of Great Britain and forms part of ___MASK51___ , United Kingdom . Peter I Island is an uninhabited volcanic island in the Bellingshausen Sea , from ___MASK14___ . It is claimed as a dependency ___MASK88___ Norway , and along with ___MASK36___ and Bouvet Island comprises one ___MASK88___ the three Norwegian dependent territories in the Antarctic and Subantarctic . Peter I Island is long and , slightly larger than ___MASK73___ . The tallest peak is the ultra and tall Lars Christensen Peak . Nearly all ___MASK88___ the island is covered by a glacier and it is surrounded most ___MASK88___ the year by pack ice , making it inaccessible almost all year round . There is little life on the island apart from seabirds and seals . ___MASK8___ ( Norwegian : " Jemtland "; Latin : " Iemptia ") or Jamtland is a historical province (" landskap ") in the ___MASK53___ of Sweden in ___MASK30___ ___MASK25___ . It borders to ___MASK40___ and Medelpad in the south , Ångermanland in the east , Lapland in the north and Trøndelag and Norway in the west . ___MASK8___ covers an area of 34 , 009 square kilometres , 8 . 3 % of Sweden ' s total area and is the second largest province in Sweden . It has a population of 112 , 717 , the majority of whom live in " Storsjöbygden ", the area surrounding lake Storsjön . Östersund is ___MASK8___ ' s only city and is the 24th most populous city in Sweden . The ___MASK84___ ( Irish : " Na Scigirí ") are an archipelago between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic approximately halfway between Norway and Iceland , north - ___MASK63___ of mainland Scotland . The area is approximately with a 2016 population of 49 , 188 . The islands are an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark . ___MASK100___ is a volcanic island in the Arctic Ocean and a part of Norway . It is long ( southwest - northeast ) and in area , partly covered by glaciers ( an area of around the Beerenberg volcano ). It has two parts : larger northeast Nord - Jan and smaller Sør - Jan , linked by a wide isthmus . It lies northeast of Iceland ( 495 km ( 305 mi ) NE of Kolbeinsey ), east of central Greenland and west of the North Cape , Norway . The island is mountainous , the highest summit being the Beerenberg volcano in the north . The isthmus is the location of the two largest ___MASK16___ of the island , Sørlaguna ( South Lagoon ), and Nordlaguna ( North Lagoon ). A third lake is called Ullerenglaguna ( Ullereng Lagoon ). ___MASK100___ was formed by the ___MASK100___ hotspot . Bouvet Island ( Norwegian : Bouvetøya , previously spelled Bouvet - øya ) is an uninhabited subantarctic high island and dependency ___MASK88___ Norway located in the South ___MASK85___ at . It lies at the southern end ___MASK88___ the Mid - Atlantic Ridge and is the ___MASK43___ remote island in the world , approximately south - ___MASK78___ ___MASK88___ the coast ___MASK88___ South Africa and approximately north ___MASK88___ the Princess Astrid Coast ___MASK88___ Queen Maud Land , Antarctica . A monarchy is a form ___MASK88___ government in which a group , usually a family called the dynasty , embodies the country ' s national identity and one ___MASK88___ its members , called the monarch , exercises a role ___MASK88___ sovereignty . The actual power ___MASK88___ the monarch may vary from purely symbolic ( crowned republic ), to partial and restricted (" constitutional " monarchy ), to completely autocratic (" absolute " monarchy ). Traditionally and in ___MASK43___ cases , the monarch ' s post is inherited and lasts until death or abdication , but there are also elective monarchies where the monarch is elected . Each ___MASK88___ these has variations : in some elected monarchies only those ___MASK88___ certain pedigrees are , whereas many hereditary monarchies impose requirements regarding the religion , age , gender , mental capacity , and other factors . Occasionally this might create a situation ___MASK88___ rival claimants whose legitimacy is subject to effective election . Finally , there have been cases where the term ___MASK88___ a monarch ' s reign is either fixed in years or continues until certain goals are achieved : an invasion being repulsed , for instance . Thus there are widely divergent structures and traditions defining monarchy . Monarchy was the ___MASK43___ common form ___MASK88___ government until the 19th century , but it is no longer prevalent . Where it exists , it is now usually a constitutional monarchy , in which the monarch retains a unique legal and ceremonial role , but exercises limited or no official political power : under the written or unwritten constitution , others have governing authority . Currently , 47 sovereign nations in the world have monarchs acting as heads ___MASK88___ state , 19 ___MASK88___ which are Commonwealth realms that recognise Queen Elizabeth II as their head ___MASK88___ state . All European monarchies are constitutional ones , with the exception ___MASK88___ the Vatican City which is an elective monarchy , but sovereigns in the smaller states exercise greater political influence than in the larger . The monarchs ___MASK88___ ___MASK82___ , Japan , and Malaysia " reign , but do not rule " although there is considerable variation in the degree ___MASK88___ authority they wield . Although they reign under constitutions , the monarchs ___MASK88___ Brunei , Morocco , Oman , Qatar , Saudi Arabia and ___MASK96___ appear to continue to exercise more political influence than any other single source ___MASK88___ authority in their nations , either by constitutional mandate or by tradition . ___MASK83___ is a historical and cultural region in ___MASK30___ ___MASK25___ characterized by a common ethnocultural North Germanic heritage and mutually intelligible North Germanic languages . Bokmål ( literally " book tongue ") is an official written standard for the Norwegian language , alongside Nynorsk . Bokmål is the preferred written standard ___MASK88___ Norwegian for 85 % to 90 % ___MASK88___ the population in Norway , and is ___MASK43___ used by people who speak Standard Østnorsk . ___MASK36___ is a c . 2 . 7 million - square - kilometre ( 1 million sq mi ) region of Antarctica claimed as a dependent territory by Norway . The territory lies between 20 ° west and 45 ° ___MASK21___ , between the British Antarctic Territory to the west and the Australian Antarctic Territory to the ___MASK21___ . On ___MASK43___ maps there had been an unclaimed area between ___MASK36___ ' s borders of 1939 and the South Pole until June 12 , 2015 when Norway formally annexed that area . Positioned in ___MASK65___ , the territory comprises about one - fifth of the total area of Antarctica . The claim is named after the Norwegian queen Maud of ___MASK91___ ( 1869  1938 ). An archipelago , sometimes called an island group or island chain , is a chain , cluster or collection ___MASK88___ islands . The word " archipelago " is derived from the Greek "  -  arkhi -" (" chief ") and "   pélagos " (" sea ") through the Italian " arcipelago ". In Italian , possibly following a tradition ___MASK88___ antiquity , the Archipelago ( from medieval Greek "*  " and Latin " archipelagus ") was the proper name for the Aegean Sea and , later , usage shifted to refer to the Aegean Islands ( since the sea is remarkable for its large number ___MASK88___ islands ). It is now used to refer to any island group or , sometimes , to a sea containing a small number ___MASK88___ scattered islands . ___MASK14___ ( US English , UK English or ) is ___MASK92___ ' s southernmost continent . It contains the geographic South Pole and is situated in the Antarctic region ___MASK88___ the Southern Hemisphere , almost entirely south ___MASK88___ the Antarctic Circle , and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean . At , it is the fifth - largest continent . For comparison , ___MASK14___ is nearly twice the size ___MASK88___ ___MASK33___ . About 98 % ___MASK88___ ___MASK14___ is covered by ice that averages in thickness , which extends to all but the northernmost reaches ___MASK88___ the Antarctic Peninsula . Hosle is a ___MASK70___ in the municipality ___MASK88___ Bærum , Norway . Its population ( as ___MASK88___ 2007 ) is 5 , 713 . The Scandinavian Peninsula (; " Skandinavsky poluostrov ") is a peninsula in ___MASK30___ ___MASK25___ , which generally comprises the ___MASK26___ of Sweden , the ___MASK26___ of Norway ( with the exception of a small coastal area bordering Russia ), the northwestern area of Finland , as well as a narrow area in the west of the Pechengsky District of Russia . Sandvika is situated approximately ___MASK49___ of Oslo . It is the main transportation hub for Western Bærum , and has a combined bus and railway station . Sandvika is also one of the stops along the route of the Airport Express Train . Sandvika also has Scandinavia ' s largest super mall , Sandvika Storsenter , with 190 stores and a total area of . On , the previously pedestrianized main ___MASK76___ was opened for car traffic and on - ___MASK76___ parking . Sandvika used to be home to the BI Norwegian Business School business school , which moved to new surroundings in Nydalen in August 2005 . The building was , after some refurbishing , converted into the home of Sandvika High School . ___MASK40___ is a historical province or " landskap " in the centre of Sweden . It borders the country of Norway as well as the provinces of Dalarna , Hälsingland , Medelpad , and Jämtland . The province originally belonged to Norway , but was ceded to Sweden in the Treaty of Brömsebro , 1645 . ___MASK72___ is a county in Norway , bordering Hedmark , Oppland , Buskerud , Oslo , and Østfold ; it also has a short border with Sweden ( Värmland ). ___MASK72___ , with more than half a million inhabitants , is the second - largest county by population after Oslo . The county is named after ___MASK72___ Fortress . The county administration is in Oslo , which is not part of the county " per se ". Bohuslän is a Swedish province in Götaland , on the northernmost part ___MASK88___ the country ' s ___MASK49___ coast . It is bordered by Dalsland to the northeast , ___MASK69___ to the southeast , the Skagerrak arm ___MASK88___ the North Sea to the ___MASK49___ , and the county ___MASK88___ ___MASK93___ , in Norway , to the north . ___MASK19___ , also known as the ___MASK15___ , is an archipelago in the Northern Isles of ___MASK51___ , situated off the north coast of Great Britain . ___MASK19___ is 16 kilometres ( 10 mi ) north of the coast of Caithness and comprises approximately 70 islands , of which 20 are inhabited . The largest island Mainland is often referred to as " the Mainland ". It has an area of , making it the sixth - largest Scottish island and the tenth - largest island in the ___MASK71___ . The largest settlement and administrative centre is ___MASK58___ . ___MASK37___ is an autonomous constituent country within the Danish Realm between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans , ___MASK21___ of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago . Though physiographically a part of the continent of North America , ___MASK37___ has been politically and culturally associated with Europe ( specifically Norway and ___MASK41___ , the colonial powers , as well as the nearby island of Iceland ) for more than a millennium . The majority of its residents are Inuit , whose ancestors migrated began migrating from the Canadian mainland in the 13th century , gradually settling across the island . ___MASK23___ (; Norwegian : ( Bokmål ) or ( Nynorsk ); Sami : " Norgga "), officially the Kingdom ___MASK88___ ___MASK23___ , is a sovereign and unitary monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion ___MASK88___ the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the island ___MASK100___ and the archipelago ___MASK88___ Svalbard . The Antarctic Peter I Island and the sub - Antarctic Bouvet Island are dependent territories and thus not considered part ___MASK88___ the Kingdom . ___MASK23___ also lays claim to a section ___MASK88___ Antarctica known as Queen Maud Land . Until 1814 , the Kingdom included the Faroe Islands ( since 1035 ), Greenland ( 1261 ), and Iceland ( 1262 ). It also included Shetland and Orkney until 1468 . It also included the following provinces , now in Sweden : Jämtland , Härjedalen and Bohuslän . The Republic ___MASK88___ Iceland , " Lýðveldið Ísland " in Icelandic , is a Nordic island country in the North ___MASK85___ . It has a population ___MASK88___ and an area ___MASK88___ , making it the ___MASK43___ sparsely populated country in Europe . The capital and largest city is Reykjavík . Reykjavík and the surrounding areas in the ___MASK78___ ___MASK88___ the country are home to over two - thirds ___MASK88___ the population . Iceland is volcanically and geologically active . The interior consists ___MASK88___ a plateau characterised by sand and lava fields , mountains and glaciers , while many glacial rivers flow to the sea through the lowlands . Iceland is warmed by the Gulf Stream and has a temperate climate , despite a high latitude just outside the Arctic Circle . Its high latitude and marine influence still keeps summers chilly , with ___MASK43___ ___MASK88___ the archipelago having a tundra climate . An island or isle is any piece ___MASK88___ sub - continental land that is surrounded by water . Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets , skerries , cays or keys . An island in a river or a lake island may be called an eyot or ait , and a small island off the coast may be called a holm . A grouping ___MASK88___ geographically or geologically related islands is called an archipelago , e . g . the ___MASK95___ .