A fork of Rural Dictionary
Norway is a country in Scandinavia, as a part of Europe. Its neighboring countries are Sweden, Russia and Finland.
Some quick facts about Norway; the main language in Norway is Norwegian. The currency used in Norway is kroner (NOK). The capital city of Norway is Oslo.
Norway is a country with beautiful fjords, amazing mountains and wonderful lakes.
Some might experience Norway as an expensive country to live and be in, as Norway is a wealthy countries with its large amounts of oil.
If you go to Norway you might notice that foreign foods and cultural things can be hard to find, but stores like Neo Tokyo, Outland and different restaurants, the most common place to find these kinds of stores and restaurants are in Oslo, but can be find in different places.
As an example on some simple Norwegian phrases:
Ja - Yes
Nei - No
Hei - Hi
Takk - Thank you
Unnskyld - Sorry
Snakker du engelsk? - Do you speak English?
Person 1: "Hey, can we go to Norway?"
Person 2: "I guess we can some day."
The grimmest and most frostbitten country in the world. Home of the Necrowizard, and his trve acolytes. Has many many many many fjords, moonforests, and wintermountains! Home of trve Acoustic Black Metal.
Hail Norway (satanically of course)!
Prosperous country which would be in deep shit without their precious oil.
Also, Norway's winters are not really cold at coast (well, by american standards maybe). Even in some parts of norwegian lapland (far north) there are areas where temperatures hardly go usually below freezing in winter.
Home of the filthy vikings who ravaged europe for centuries.
But, a beautiful country.
The state of Norway has saved over 100 billion US dollars from the oil earnings.
Vikings destroyed and pillaged towns and villages, raped women, and killed people. sarcasm How awesome, you should be so proud of yourselves. /sarcasm