What is the capital of Norway?

Oslo sits at the head of a long fjord in the southeast, the most sheltered and agriculturally productive corner of a country that is otherwise mountainous and strung out along an enormous coastline. That protected inner position made it defensible and well connected to the interior valleys, and it became the royal seat in the medieval period. After a fire destroyed the town in 1624, the Danish king Christian IV rebuilt it on a grid beneath the Akershus fortress and renamed it Christiania after himself; it kept that name for nearly three hundred years before reverting to Oslo in 1925. Norway spent centuries in union with Denmark and then Sweden, so for long stretches the real decisions were made in Copenhagen or Stockholm, and Oslo only became the capital of a fully independent state when the union with Sweden was dissolved in 1905.

The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo while the other Nobel prizes are presented in Stockholm.