Norway Sweden Finland

Author: Zhou Min
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Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: Norway, with a population of 4.51 million. 98% are Germanic Norwegian people, and there are also a small number of Sami and Finnish people in the north. Norwegian is the official language. The state religion is Lutheranism, and 90% of the residents adhere to it. Sweden is located in the southeastern part of the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe, bordering Norway to the west; it borders Finland to the northeast; the Baltic Sea is to the east; and the North Sea is to the southwest, facing the Gulf of Finland. Finland is located in northern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea to the southwest; the south is where the Finns migrated to. Since the second half of the 12th century, it has been under the jurisdiction of Sweden and officially became part of Sweden in the middle of the 14th century.