Well, I'm from Norway. It's a boring place, really, but has got a lot of beautiful landscapes and stuff.
Just to kill some myths right away:
- there are no polar bears in Norway (the exceptions are the northern, close to unpopulated islands to the far north, like Svalbard and Jan Mayen).
- it is NOT the capital of Sweden xD
- not all of Norway is fjords and midnight sun. The fjords are located to the west, while the midnight sun is in northern Norway only.
- Norway is not supercold and snow-covered all the time. Right now, in summer, the temperature might rise to about 30 degrees and more.
- the vikings didn't wear hats with horns on them.
Uhm, well, what else? Norway's economy comes from mainly oil and fishing industry, I think. The capital is Oslo, other large cities are Bergen, Trondheim, Tromsø, Kristiandsand and Stavanger, among others. Our national costume is called bunad and differs in look and decorations depending on where in Norway you're from. My bunad is the Lier bunad, and looks like this:
Also, as mentioned in the Norway thread, we have two written languages: bokmål and nynorsk. Nynorsk is mainly used in the western areas. Bokmål is used by more people than nynorsk. The language itself has similarities to Swedish, Danish, Icelandic and "Færøysk" (really, I have no idea what it is in English! But you know, the language they talk at the islands north of England and west of Norway... I don't know what they're called in English, and I much less know what their language is called in English!), and derives from Norse. I guess some words look unpronounceable to someone speaking English, like "angstskrik" (as PomPom mentioned in the Norway thread) and "skjelmskt", but it's really not that hard when you know the language
Uhm, yeah, in case you didn't know, it is located to the north of Europe, bordering to Sweden, Finland and Russia.
If there's anything else you want to know, just ask! Or let the other Norwegians on AsiaJam post it :]