Norway is located in northern Europe and borders the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.  It is next to Sweden and is slightly larger than New Mexico at approximately 3,861 square miles.  The terrain of Norway is glaciated and mostly high plateaus with and rugged mountains.  They have many mountains and fertile valleys such as the Jotunheim Mountains.  It is also called 'Home of the Giants.'  Norway has small, scattered plains and numerous fiords.  A fiord is narrow deep inlets of the sea set between high, rocky cliffs.  The average height in Norway is 3300 feet high and twenty percent of Norway is 500 feet below sea level.

     Norway's climate is temperate along the coast and a colder interior, with increased precipitation and colder summers.  It is rainy all year round.  In Norway it is usually in the mid- fifties.

     The longest river in Norway is the Glama and is 380 miles long.  Only three percent of the land can be farmed.

     Norway has many resources such as petroleum, natural gas, iron ore, copper, lead, zinc, and titanium.  It also is rich in pyrites, nickel, fish, timber, and uses hydropower.  Norway is also rich in wildlife.  It has nearly two thousand plant species such as dwarf birch, mosses, lichens, mushrooms, and berries.  Its wildlife also includes reindeer, polar foxes, polar hares, wolves, wolverines, lemmings, hawks, falcons, eagles, puffins, gulls, gannets, and fulmars.

      It is about two thirds mountains and some fifty thousand islands.  Its capital is Oslo.  Oslo is sixty miles with a population of 507,500 people.