List of possessions of Norway

This is a list of current and former territorial possessions of the Kingdom of Norway.

Current overseas territories

Integral areas of Norway which are unincorporated:

Svalbard (including Bear Island), in the Arctic, a part of Norway since 1920.
Jan Mayen, in the Arctic, a part of Norway since 1929.

Svalbard with Bear Island are subject to the provisions of the Svalbard Treaty. Svalbard and Jan Mayen are sometimes grouped together for some categorization purposes.

Current dependencies of Norway are all in the southern polar region:

Peter I Island, in the Antarctic and Southern Ocean, possession since 1929.
Bouvet Island, in the sub-Antarctic and South Atlantic Ocean, possession since 1930.
Queen Maud Land, in Antarctica, possession since 1939.

Map

thumb|centre|upright=3|Location of Norway and its overseas territories

Photo gallery

File:Beerenberg Jan Mayen.JPG|Jan Mayen with Beerenberg volcano

File:IsfjordenSouthShore.JPG|Isfjorden, Svalbard

File:SANAE IV from above the northern buttress.jpg|Vesleskarvet, Queen Maud Land

File:Küste der Peter-I.-Insel in der Bellingshausensee 1994.jpg|Peter I Island

File:Bouvet Island west coast.jpg|Bouvet Island

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Former dependencies and homelands

upright=1.5|thumb|[[Kingdom of Norway (872–1397) with its homeland, dependencies and possessions]]

thumb|Norwegian Kingdom and its former [[homeland before 1645]]

The so-called Greater Norway includes these entities:

Dependencies ceded to Scotland (1st phase)

Hebrides, colonized from 700s to 1100s, part of an earldom, crown dependencies from 1100s to 1266, ceded by the Treaty of Perth.
Man, colonized from 850s to 1152, part of an earldom, crown dependency from 1152 to 1266, ceded by the Treaty of Perth.
Shetland, colonized from 700s to 900s, earldom from 900s to 1195, crown dependency from 1195 to 1470, pledged by Christian I.

National homelands ceded to Sweden (2nd phase)

Bohuslän, integrated from 800s to 1523, again from 1532 to 1658, ceded by the Treaty of Roskilde.
Idre and Särna, integrated from 800s to 1645, ceded by the Second Treaty of Brömsebro, border not formally delineated until 1751.
Jämtland, integrated from 1100s to 1645, ceded the Second Treaty of Brömsebro.
Härjedalen, integrated from 1200s to 1563, again from 1570 to 1645, ceded by the Second Treaty of Brömsebro.

Dependencies ceded to Denmark (3rd phase)

Faroe Islands, settled and colonized pre-1035 and crown dependencies from 1035 to 1814, ceded by the Treaty of Kiel.

Briefly-ruled areas

Swedish homelands

Värmland, from as early as 820s (pre-unification) to about 1000, before being integrated into Sweden.
Dalsland, from as early as 820s (pre-unification) to about 1000, before being integrated into Sweden.

Welsh homeland

Anglesey, crown dependency from 1098 to 1099, reverted to Kingdom of Gwynedd as of lack of settlements.

Danish homelands

Kungsbacka, Varberg and Falkenberg, historical , part of the kingdom from 1287 to 1305.

Suzerainties – Dublin and Mann

Mann and the Isles, under Norwegian suzerainty.
Kingdom of Dublin, nominally under Norwegian suzerainty.
The Kingdom of Denmark, claimed by several Norwegian kings (Hardrada dynasty) in the 11th century.
South Georgia, now part of the British Overseas Territories of United Kingdom.<p>The spread of Norwegian whaling industry to Antarctica in the early 20th century motivated Norway, right after its independence from the United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway in 1905, to pursue territorial expansion not only in the Arctic claiming Jan Mayen and Sverdrup Islands, but also in Antarctica. Norway claimed Bouvet Island and looked further south, formally inquiring with Foreign Office about the international status of the area between 45° and 65° south latitude and 35° and 80° west longitude. Following a second such diplomatic démarche by the Norwegian Government dated 4 March 1907, Britain replied that the areas were British based on discoveries made in the first half of the 19th century, and issued the 1908 Letters Patent incorporating the British Falkland Islands Dependencies with a permanent local administration in Grytviken established in 1909.</p>
Fridtjof Nansen Land (Franz Josef Land), now part of Russia, claimed from 1926 to around 1929, rejecting a claim of the Soviet Union.
Sverdrup Islands, now part of Canada, claimed from 1902 until Canadian sovereignty recognised in 1930, as part of an agreement with the British Empire, for the British to recognise Jan Mayen as Norwegian territory.
Erik the Red's Land, northeast coast of Greenland and Fridtjof Nansen Land, southeast coast of Greenland, claimed and annexed from 1931 until awarded to Denmark by a court decision in 1933.
Inari and Petsamo, now part of Finland and Russia, claimed from Finland from about 1942 to 1945 by the Quisling regime during the Nazi occupation of Norway.
Murmansk and Arkhangelsk as Bjarmland, now part of Russia, claimed from the Soviet Union from about 1942 to 1945 by the Quisling regime, and was earlier also claimed by Norway in the High Middle Ages and Late Middle Ages. Quisling designated the area reserved for Norwegian colonization as Bjarmeland, a reference to the name featured in the Norse sagas for Northern Russia.