Sunny, breezy today, with a chance of rip currents at beach. The outlook for Sunday calls for partly sunny skies, with gusty winds off the ocean that will make for hazardous boating conditions in the open Atlantic and pose a threat of rip currents for swimmers.
Norway-Location, size, and extent. Photo by: berean. Norway occupies the western part of the Scandinavian peninsula in northern Europe, with almost one-third of the country situated N of the Arctic Circle. It has an area of 324,220 sq km (125,182 sq mi). Comparatively, the area occupied by Norway is slightly larger than the state of New Mexico. Extending 1,752 km (1,089 mi). , Norway has the greatest length of any European country; its width is 430 km (267 mi). .
A circle enclosing the same area as Denmark would be 234 kilometres (more than 145 miles) in diameter with a circumference of 742 km (461 mi). It shares a border of 68 kilometres (42 mi) with Germany to the south and is otherwise surrounded by 8,750 km (5,437 mi) of tidal shoreline (including small bays and inlets).enmark and Norway remained under the same king until the union was dissolved by outside forces in 1814. Caused by the Black Death, the deterioration of the Kingdom of Norway made it possible for Denmark to inherit an expansive colonial empire from this union, of which the Faroe Islands and Greenland are remnants.