"Norway is a small country in the world", as one Norwegian politician was famously quoted. With a population of 4 million, this is obviously true. Though Oslo's population has only recently passed the half million mark, the city is still the metropolis of Norway. You will have to go farther north, however, if you want to experience the midnight sun. Furthermore, polar bears have not been reported to attack school children for the last couple of thousand years, as they're not part of the mainland fauna at all.