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Norway
Norway
( ;
Norwegian
: (
Bokmål
) or (
Nynorsk
)), officially the
Kingdom of Norway
, is a
sovereign
and
unitary
monarchy
whose territory comprises the western portion of the
Scandinavian Peninsula
plus the island
Jan Mayen
and the archipelago of
Svalbard
. The Antarctic
Peter I Island
and the sub-Antarctic
Bouvet Island
are
dependent territories
and thus not considered part of the Kingdom. Norway also lays claim to a section of
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.
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