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Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Scandinavian unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, and the sub-Antarctic Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of 385,252 square kilometres (148,747 sq mi) and a population of about 5 million. It is the 2nd least densely populated country in Europe. The country shares a long eastern border with Sweden (1,619 km or 1,006 mi long), which is the longest uninterrupted border within both Scandinavia & Europe at large. Norway is bordered by Finland and Russia to the north-east, and the Skagerrak Strait to the south, with Denmark on the other side.

The country has the fourth-highest per capita income in the world. On a per-capita basis, it is the world's largest producer of oil and natural gas outside the Middle East, and the petroleum industry accounts for around a quarter of the country's gross domestic product. The country maintains a welfare model with universal health care, subsidised higher education, and a comprehensive social security system. From 2001 to 2006, and then again from 2009 to 2012, Norway had the highest Human Development Index ranking in the world. From 2010 to 2012, Norway also topped the Legatum Prosperity Index. Also from 2010 to 2012, Norway had the highest ranking on the Democracy Index. The OECD ranks Norway third in social mobility and fourth on the 2013 Better Life Index Forbes rank Norway fourth in their list The World's richest countries, which compares countries by GDP. Norway was the first independent country to introduce women's suffrage in 1913.

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