With a history stretching back to the Viking Era, the city was already a historical, cultural, and administrative center long before it was chosen to be the on-shore center of Norway's North Sea oil industry in 1969.

Today, Stavanger is a combination of new and old; the most ancient cathedral in Norway, finished in 1125, sits right in the heart of the city.

Stavanger, the fourth-largest city of Norway, has a population of approximately 290,000, and is commonly referred to as the petroleum capital of Norway.

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