Norway is about 385,000 square kilometers in total area, or roughly 149,000 square miles, when you include its Arctic islands like Svalbard and Jan Mayen.

Quick Scoop

  • Mainland Norway (without Svalbard and Jan Mayen) is about 324,000 square kilometers (around 125,000 square miles).
  • Including all territories , Norway’s area is about 385,000 square kilometers (about 149,000 square miles).
  • That makes it slightly bigger than countries like Germany in land area but with a much smaller population of about 5.6 million people.

A sense of scale

If you picture Europe on a map, Norway stretches like a long, jagged spine up the north‑western edge of the continent, running roughly the distance from Scotland up past northern Greenland’s latitude, which is why it feels huge despite its low population density.

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