Major Cities/towns (ranked By Size)
- Oslo (earlier Kristiania) - capital
- Bergen - former capital, hansa city
- Trondheim - the first capital of Norway, known by the name Nidaros (viking age)
- Stavanger (ranked 3rd by pop./conurbation)
- Kristiansand
- Fredrikstad
- Tromsø
- Sandnes
- Drammen
- Skien
Geography - note: Strategic location adjacent to sea lanes and air routes in the North Atlantic Ocean.
Read more about this topic: Geography Of Norway
Famous quotes containing the words major, cities and/or towns:
“Self-centeredness is a natural outgrowth of one of the toddler’s major concerns: What is me and what is mine...? This is why most toddlers are incapable of sharing ... to a toddler, what’s his is what he can get his hands on.... When something is taken away from him, he feels as though a piece of him—an integral piece—is being torn from him.”
—Lawrence Balter (20th century)
“Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men and women. The ultimate victory, the ultimate victory of tomorrow is with democracy; and true democracy with education, for no people in all the world can be kept eternally ignorant or eternally enslaved.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“If there is among you anyone in need, a member of your community in any of your towns within the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not be hard-hearted or tight-fisted toward your needy neighbor. You should rather open your hand, willingly lending enough to meet the need, whatever it may be.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 15:7,8.