This article is about the ethnic group native to Norway. For other uses, see Norwegian.
For a specific analysis of the population of Norway, see Demographics of Norway.
Norwegians Nordmenn
Nordmenn
Distribution of Norwegians worldwide
Total population
c. 10 milliona
Regions with significant populations
Norway 4,459,166[1][2]
United States
4,642,526[3]
Canada
463,275[4]
United Kingdom[a][b]
13,798[5]
42,000
Sweden
48,385[6]
Australia[c]
25,700[7]
Denmark
17,350[8]
Spain
11,871[9]
Germany
11,000[10]
Brazil
10,618[11]
France
7,000[12]
Switzerland
2,234[13]
Finland
2,156[14]
New Zealand
1,400[15]
Iceland
1,369[16]
Portugal
1,086 [17]
Italy
1,024[18]
Japan
424[19]
Languages
Norwegian
Standard forms
Bokmål
Nynorsk
Unofficial forms
Riksmål
Høgnorsk
Religion
Lutheranism (Church of Norway)[20] Historically Norse paganism and Catholic Christianity
a. ^ Based on table of given countries above. Includes those of partial Norwegian ancestry but does not include people of Faroese, Icelandic, Orcadian or Shetland ancestry.
b. ^ There are millions of Britons of Scandinavian ancestry and ethnicity, though mixed with others.
c. ^ 2,700 were born in Norway; 23,000 claim Norwegian ancestry or partial Norwegian ancestry.
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Norwegians (Norwegian: Nordmenn) 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 Norse of the Early Middle Ages who formed a unified Kingdom of Norway in the 9th century. During the Viking Age, Norwegians and other Norse peoples conquered, settled and ruled parts of the British Isles, the Faroe Islands, Iceland and Greenland.[21] Norwegians are closely related to other descendants of the Norsemen such as Danes, Swedes, Icelanders and the Faroe Islanders, as well as groups such as the Scots whose nation they significantly settled and left a lasting impact in, particularly the Northern Isles (Orkney and Shetland).[22][23][24]
The Norwegian language, with its two official standard forms, more specifically Bokmål and Nynorsk, is part of the larger Scandinavian dialect continuum of generally mutually intelligible languages in Scandinavia. Norwegian people and their descendants are found in migrant communities worldwide, notably in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and the United Kingdom.[25][26] Norwegians are traditionally Lutheran since the Reformation in Denmark–Norway and Holstein which made Lutheranism the only legal religion in the country, however large portions of the population are now either non-practicing, atheist or agnostic.[27][28]
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control. Up to 15,000 Norwegians volunteered to fight in German units, including the Waffen-SS. Many Norwegians and persons of Norwegian descent joined the...
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age and gender adjustment. Most African Norwegians have a background from the following countries: Norwegians with African background live in the following...
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claimants included the King of Norway, Harald Hardrada. According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Manuscript D (p. 197), the Norwegians assembled a fleet of 300...
how to write Norwegian, but not for how to speak the language. No standard of spoken Norwegian is officially sanctioned, and most Norwegians speak their...
westward movement of Norwegians by founding a settlement in the Fox River area of Illinois. A small urban colony of Norwegians had its genesis in Chicago...
of evidence. In the end, 20,000 Norwegians and a smaller number of Germans were given prison sentences. 77 Norwegians and 18 Germans received life sentences...
The Church of Norway will still obtain financial support from the state of Norway, along with other religious communities. Early Norwegians, like most Scandinavians...
community in Norway. A 2002 survey reported that 3.2% of Vietnamese Norwegians had been punished for breaking the law. The number for ethnic Norwegians was 1...
some shops in the Danish ferry ports of Hirtshals and Frederikshavn. Norwegians spent 14.1 billion NOK on border shopping in 2015 compared to 10.5 billion...
Norwegian, an increase of 6% since 2002 (409,000). Oslo has the largest population of immigrants and Norwegians born to immigrant parents in Norway,...
Emigrants also became Norwegian Canadians, Norwegian Australians, Norwegian New Zealanders, Norwegian Brazilians, Kola Norwegians and Norwegian South Africans...
of food, which caused the lord to refuse to sell food and goods to the Norwegians. Sigurd gathered his army, attacked the lord's castle and looted what...
sent her and Svein as regents to rule Norway. However, their rule was considered oppressive by the Norwegians. They imposed new taxes and harsh laws...
took up a position on the mound formerly held by the Norwegians. Late in the day, the Norwegians recaptured the mound after several hours of skirmishing...
and 39.4 for Norway's population. Among Norwegians in Minnesota, 54,411 were younger than the age of 5 (or 6.9% of all those with Norwegian ancestry); of...
celebration of Christmas in Western Norway and is rapidly gaining popularity in other regions as well. 31% of Norwegians say they eat pinnekjøtt for their...
November 1939, the Norwegians agreed to charter 150 tankers, as well as other ships with a tonnage of 450,000 gross tons. The Norwegian government's concern...
Continent, giving the Norwegians time to develop their plans. On 10 February, Christian Frederik invited prominent Norwegians to a meeting to be held...
This is a list of notable people from Norway. See also: Music of Norway Peder A. Aarøe, former trade unionist Arne Aasheim, diplomat and civil servant...
and sometimes as settlers. Norwegians commonly deny responsibility for slavery and colonialism by arguing that Norwegians were living under Danish rule...
However, over the years, a divergence of Norwegian and Swedish interests became apparent. In particular, Norwegians felt that their foreign policy interests...
take control and hilltop forts to be constructed. From the 8th century Norwegians started expanding across the seas to the British Isles and later Iceland...