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:
“A dead martyr is just another corpse.”
—Leo V. Gordon, U.S. screenwriter, and Arthur Hiller. Major Craig (Rock Hudson)
“Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood in which they live. And whatever can degrade a neighborhood can degrade a country and a continent and finally the whole civilized world, which is only a large neighborhood.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“The recent attempt to secure a charter from the State of North Dakota for a lottery company, the pending effort to obtain from the State of Louisiana a renewal of the charter of the Louisiana State Lottery, and the establishment of one or more lottery companies at Mexican towns near our border, have served the good purpose of calling public attention to an evil of vast proportions.”
—Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901)