Norway
Norway (the Kingdom of Norway) is a Nordic state that covers the western and northernmost parts of the Scandinavian Peninsula, plus the Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the Svalbard archipelago. It has about 5.6 million people and a total area of 385,207 km². Oslo is the capital and largest city.
The 2026 edition of the World Happiness Report, published by the Wellbeing Research Centre at Oxford with Gallup and the UN SDSN, ranks Norway No. 6, with a life evaluation score of 7.242. In the previous edition it was No. 7 with 7.262.
The unified kingdom of Norway was founded in 872 from smaller kingdoms and has existed continuously for more than a thousand years. It was part of Denmark–Norway from 1537 to 1814 and in a personal union with Sweden from 1814 to 1905. Neutral in the First World War, it was invaded and occupied by Nazi Germany from April 1940 until the end of the Second World War.
Sources of this text: Wikipedia · Wellbeing Research Centre Oxford / Gallup / UN SDSN
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