The Kingdom of Norway is one of the 3 Scandinavian countries. Harald V is the actual king and the prime minister, a woman, is Erna Solberg. 5.2 million people live here and 16% of them are immigrants. The main language is Norwegian, but there are two different dialects: Bokmål and Nynorsk.
Norwegian currency is Norwegian Krone (NOK). With 1€ you have currently 9NOK. It’s a rich country due to many powerful economics sectors. Nevertheless, cost of living here is really high, one of the higher in the whole world. The GDP per capita is $70 000 so wages following cost of living. It’s just expansive for foreigners.
Considering welfare and wellbeing rate Norway is well now because of his high HDI: 0,944, first rank in the world. Norway also reach the first place of the OECD Better Life Index, Legatum Prosperity Index, Democracy Index and the Inequality Adjusted Human Development Index!
Oslo is the capital, with 658 000 capita. The second largest city is Bergen, with 250 000 
people. It’s roughly the same numbers of inhabitants in Nantes! But Bergen is less concentrate than the French city. I’m currently living and studying in this wonderful city. So, Bergen is located in Hordaland, one of the 19 administrative regions called counties. We can see the flag of the county on children’s scholar bag.
Bergen’s surname is: The city of rain. The annual average of rain is about 2 250mm. Compared to Brest (France), there are “just’’ 900mm each year! But for the moment, we are at the end of September and I use less than ten time my umbrella in one mouth and half, so we are pretty lucky.
Bergen is surrounded by 7 mountains, and here, the purpose of many students is to climb each one. I live next to Damsgårdsfjellet, in the district of Melkeplassen, the milk place in Norwegian. Below a picture of my house! I live with one French guy and one Greek. They studied at NHH too.
My home is located in Melkeplassen, next to forest and mountains.
Another important fact about geography are Fjords. Fjords are according to dictionary.com “A long, narrow arm of the sea bordered by steep cliffs: usually formed by glacial erosion.” Many touristic trips by boat, cars or even hiking try to reach the top of Fjords. The most famous one is Trolltunga, you can check it out on internet. These hiking are not so easy and at the school they tell to us: Be caution! Each year many tourists can not reach the top and people need to call emergency.
The city center is quite large. You can walk along the Norh Sea, there is a huge harbor where many ocean liners stop. If you can make a cruise in the fjord you will see amazing landscape, mountains, and houses in the middle of nowhere. During the welcome week, the International committee of NHH, a kind of ‘’BDE’’ just for international students organised one. It was marvelous.
The two most touristic places in Bergen are the fish market and Bryggen. In the fish market you can have a plate of salmon or other fishes for 250-300NOK, so nearly 30€.
Bryggen is on the UNESCO list for cultural heritage, it’s a series of typical houses. Most of them are now restaurants or commercial shops for tourists.
I will finish this first article by a culture aspect of the city. Bergen is the capital of street art in Norway. You can admire many piece in the city. One of the most famous artist here is Dolk. The city wants to preserve his piece of art by protective glass. The famous street artist Banksy come to Bergen too!
That all for the moment! See you 🙂
