Modern flag of Norway.
Norway (Norwegian: Norge (Bokmål) or Noreg (Nynorsk)), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and the subantarctic Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of 385,252 square kilometres (148,747 sq mi) and a population of about 5 million. It is the second least densely populated country in Europe.
Norway in 1632[]
Flag of Denmark-Norway in 1632.
In the 1630s, Norway was still joined with Denmark, in a personal union that was sometimes referred to as Denmark–Norway. At the time, that also included Iceland, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands. While political and economic power emanated from Copenhagen, Norway officially had a separate legal code and currency, as well as mostly separate governing institutions.[1]
When Gustavus Adolphus reformed the Union of Kalmar under Swedish leadership, Norway entered the Union along with Denmark.