Norway Issues - 2022

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

Disputes - international

Norway-Antarctica: Norway asserts a territorial claim in Antarctica (Queen Maud Land and its continental shelf)

Norway-Russia: Russia amended its 2001 CLCS submission in 2015 and 2021, each time delineating the outer limits of its continental shelf further into the Arctic Ocean; Norway and Russia signed a comprehensive maritime boundary agreement in 2010, ending a dispute over an area of the Barents Sea by dividing the territory equally

Norway-Sweden: none identified

 

 

Refugees and internally displaced persons

refugees (country of origin): 15,542 (Syria), 11,965 (Eritrea) (mid-year 2021); 34,005 (Ukraine) (as of 6 December 2022)

stateless persons: 4,154 (mid-year 2021)

NOTE: The information regarding Norway on this page is re-published from the 2022 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Norway 2022 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Norway 2022 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.