Kurds in Norway are Kurds living in

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

. The number of

Kurds ug:كۇردلار Kurds ( ku, کورد ,Kurd, italic=yes, rtl=yes) or Kurdish people are an Iranian ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in Western Asia, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Ir ...

is estimated between 7,100 and 25,000 and they come mainly from countries in the

Middle East The Middle East ( ar, الشرق الأوسط, ISO 233: ) is a geopolitical region commonly encompassing Arabian Peninsula, Arabia (including the Arabian Peninsula and Bahrain), Anatolia, Asia Minor (Asian part of Turkey except Hatay Pro ...

. Most Norwegian Kurds live in the capital

Oslo Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of ...

. In 1993, population of Kurds in Norway was estimated as 2,000 by

Kurdish Institute of Paris The Kurdish Institute of Paris (french: Institut kurde de Paris), founded in February 1983 by (amongst others) film producer Yılmaz Güney and poet Cigerxwîn, is an organization focused on the Kurdish language, culture, and history. It is one ...

(KIP). In 2021, citing a report of the KIP, Rudaw estimates that between 25,000 and 30,000 Kurds reside in Norway.

Political representation

In the

2021 Norwegian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Norway on 13 September 2021. All 169 seats in the Norwegian legislature, the Storting, were up for election. The election was won by a coalition consisting of the social-democratic Labour Party and the agra ...

, two Kurdish-Norwegians were elected being

Seher Aydar Seher Aydar (born, 10 September 1989, Turkey) is a Norwegian politician of Kurdish descent. She is a member of the Red Party and was elected to the Norwegian Parliament (Storting) in the Parliamentary Elections of 2021. Early life and educati ...

of the Red Party and the other

Mani Hussaini Mani Hussaini ( ar, مانی حسینی; born 25 October 1987) is a Kurdish-Norwegian politician who was the leader of the Workers' Youth League (AUF) from 2014 to 2018. He is currently a member of parliament for Akershus since 2021. Born in a ...

from the Labour Party.

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Asian diaspora in Norway Kurdish diaspora in Europe

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Political representation

See also

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