Denmark

Denmark is in the north of Europe and occupies peninsula Jutland, islands of the Danish archipelago (largest of them - Zealand, Fyn, Lolland, Falster, Maine), island Bornholm and a part of Frisian Islands. The western coast of Denmark is flowed about by the North Sea, east - Baltic. Having spilt Skagerak abjoints it from Norway, and straits Kattegat and Eresunn - from Sweden. In the south Denmark bounds on Germany.

In composition of the Danish kingdom enter as well two self-coping terrains - the Faeroes which have been had in northern part of Atlantic, between Scotland and Iceland, and the largest island of the world - Greenland, being at shores of the North America.

The Square of Denmark (without Greenland and Faeroes) compounds 43,1  thousand sq. km, the country occupies 5,19  million persons. The capital of Denmark - Copenhagen - is had on island Zealand.

the Danish state has developed in IX-X centuries. For a long time there was an union of three states - Denmark, Norway and Sweden in which Denmark posessed a predominating role. Later under authority of Denmark Norway, Iceland, Farery and Greenland have got belonging earlier. In modern boundary lines Denmark exists since 1944, after cancellation unii with Iceland.

Denmark - the one-national country, Danes compound 98  population %. An official language - Danish, on confession the majority of Danes - lutherans.

The Climate in Denmark moderated, marine, with soft unstablis winter, in the cool summer and the stretched transitive seasons. Fogs, especially at coast are very frequent in Denmark.

Denmark - the flat country, only in the east of peninsula Jutland there are hummocks. Shores of Jutland and adjoining islands levelled down, low, the strip of the dunes abjointing from the sea extensive lagoons coast-wise lasts. In Denmark it is a lot of marshes which last years are intensively drained.

cities - Copenhagen, Arhus, Odense, Aalborg - involve the Largest with the unique architecture. In Denmark it is possible to meet both gothic cathedrals, and palaces of an epoch of the Renaissance. In architecture of more serotinal season (palace complexes of Copenhagen) lines of baroque, a rococo and classicism arabesquely intertwine.