Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to:
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Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...
, a country in northwestern Europe
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Norwegians
Norwegians () are an ethnic group and nation native to Norway, where they form the vast majority of the population. They share a common culture and speak the Norwegian language. Norwegians are descended from the Norsemen, Norse of the Early ...
, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway
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Demographics of Norway
Demographic features of the population of Norway, including Jan Mayen, and Svalbard, where the hospital is not equipped for births, and no burials are allowed because of permafrost, include population density, ethnicity, education level, health ...
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Norwegian language
Norwegian ( ) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family spoken mainly in Norway, where it is an official language. Along with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a dialect continuum of more or less mutually intelli ...
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Bokmål
Bokmål () (, ; ) is one of the official written standards for the Norwegian language, alongside Nynorsk. Bokmål is by far the most used written form of Norwegian today, as it is adopted by 85% to 90% of the population in Norway. There is no cou ...
, literally "book language", used by 85–90% of the population of Norway
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Nynorsk
Nynorsk (; ) is one of the two official written standards of the Norwegian language, the other being Bokmål. From 12 May 1885, it became the state-sanctioned version of Ivar Aasen's standard Norwegian language (''Landsmål''), parallel to the Da ...
, literally "New Norwegian", used by 10–15% of the population of Norway
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Norwegian Sea
The Norwegian Sea (; ; ) is a marginal sea, grouped with either the Atlantic Ocean or the Arctic Ocean, northwest of Norway between the North Sea and the Greenland Sea, adjoining the Barents Sea to the northeast. In the southwest, it is separate ...
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Norwegian Air Shuttle
Norwegian Air Shuttle Aksjeselskap, ASA, trading as Norwegian, is a Norway, Norwegian Low-cost carrier, low-cost airline and Scandinavia's second-largest airline, behind Scandinavian Airlines. It is the fourth largest low-cost carrier in Europe ...
, an airline, trading as Norwegian
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Norwegian Long Haul
Norwegian Long Haul Aksjeselskap, AS was a division of Norwegian Air Shuttle that operated Flight length, long-haul flights between Europe, Asia, and North America. The airline's fleet consisted of the Boeing 787. The airline was registered in D ...
, a defunct subsidiary of Norwegian Air Shuttle, flying long-haul flights
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Norwegian Air Lines
Det Norske Luftfartselskap A/S (literally "The Norwegian Aviation Company") or DNL, trading internationally as Norwegian Air Lines, was an airline and flag carrier of Norway. Founded in 1927, it operated domestic and international routes from 19 ...
, a former airline, merged with Scandinavian Airlines in 1951
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Norwegian coupling
A Norwegian coupling or coupler (also known colloquially as a chopper coupling or claw hammer coupling), is a manually operated coupling at each end of some narrow-gauge railway rolling stock. It consists of a central buffer incorporating a hoo ...
, used for narrow-gauge railways
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Norwegian Cruise Line
Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) is an American cruise line founded in Norway in 1966, headquartered in Miami, Florida, and incorporated in the Bahamas. It is the List of cruise lines, fourth-largest cruise line in the world by passengers, controlling ...
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Norwegian Elkhound
The Norwegian Elkhound is one of the Northern Spitz-type breeds of dog and is the National Dog of Norway. The Elkhound has served as a hunter, guardian, herder, and defender. It is known for its courage in tracking and hunting elk an ...
, a canine breed.
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Norwegian Forest cat, a domestic feline breed
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Norwegian Red
The Norwegian Red or is a Norwegian breed of dairy cattle. It was formed in 1961 through successive mergers of various traditional and regional breeds. In 2016 it accounted for approximately 85% of the cattle in the country, and about 99% ...
, a breed of dairy cattle
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Norwegian Township, Pennsylvania
Norwegian Township is a township that is located in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 2,156 at the time of the 2020 census.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area ...
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Norsk (marque)
Norsk was the brand name of cars built by in Oslo
Oslo ( or ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's grea ...
, a Norwegian brand of cars
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Norsk (rural locality)
Norsk () is a rural locality (a '' selo'') in Selemdzhinsky District of Amur Oblast, Russia
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of countries and dependencies by area, l ...
, a rural locality in Russia
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Norway (disambiguation)
Norway is a country in Northern Europe. The word may also refer to:
Places Canada
* Norway, Toronto a former name of a portion of the Upper Beaches neighbourhood
* Norway House, Manitoba
* Norway, Prince Edward Island
* New Norway, Alberta
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Norge (disambiguation)
Norge is the Norwegian (Bokmål and Riksmål), Danish and Swedish name for Norway
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