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This overstates how concentrated Norway’s population is in its two biggest cities. Statistics Norway reports Norway’s total population at 5,627,400 at the start of 2026. Its urban-settlement statistics list Oslo at 1,110,887 residents and Bergen at 273,626 residents on 1 January 2025. Combined, that is 1,384,513 people — about 24.6% of Norway’s population, not “most.” Even using the broader Oslo urban area rather than just Oslo municipality, Oslo plus Bergen is still far below 50 percent.

Værøy’s own municipal travel-information page contradicts this. It says Lufttransport AS provides daily passenger helicopter service between Bodø and Værøy. The same page also says the ferries make it possible to travel by car between Bodø, Værøy, Røst and Moskenes. So access to Værøy is not limited to a single ferry route from Moskenes.

This describes the Government Pension Fund Global’s annual result as if it were a stable, fixed yearly income, but Norges Bank’s own figures show that is not how the fund works. Norges Bank Investment Management says the fund’s 2025 return was 15.1 percent, or 2,362 billion kroner. But in 2022 the fund returned -14.1 percent, equivalent to -1,637 billion kroner. Those official results show the fund’s annual gain/loss changes substantially from year to year and can be negative. So it is inaccurate to say it “makes $247 billion every single year.”

The article places a majority of Brunstad Christian Church / Smith’s Friends members in Norway, but the church’s own description says otherwise. BCC states that it has around 25,000 followers worldwide and that more than a third of them live in Norway. “More than a third” is substantially less than “most,” so the claim that most members are in Norway is inaccurate.