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| - It can be accessed directly from the roiling plains of the North German Plain or by a short sea journey from Malmö in Sweden. Denmark was seen as as stepping stone between Sweden and Norway at one end and Germany on the other. This fact had become aware to military planners in the Napoleonic Wars and WW2. Denmark is a agricultural fertile and climactic temperate place which is formed by the mid and upper Jutland, along with the Danish archipelago of 443 named islands and many smaller named ones, of which around 70 of the name ones are inhabited. The Jutland Penisular is by nature a flat heathland with a hilly eatern side, costal plains on the western side and costal bogs. It has a poulation of 2,528,129 (2008). Chalk is mined at the Thingbaek Chalk Mines in the north of the peninsular. The North Jutlandic Island, Vendsyssel-Thy, or simply Jutland north of the Limfjord are lesser-used names for the northernmost part of Denmark and of The area is 4,685 km² and the maximum leangth is 194 km. The islands are characterised by flat, arable land and sandy coasts, low elevation and ether of sedimentary or morainic origin. Zealand is a large island that’s part of Denmark. It’s home to the capital, Copenhagen, and the city of Roskilde. Small towns and villages occupy the north, south and west coasts, which are popular holiday areas with sandy beaches and fjords. In the south, the towering white Møn’s Klint and Stevns Klint are fossil-rich cliffs. Baltic Sea. The area is 7,031 km².Zealand Island is the most populous Danish island with a poulation of 2,491,090 (2012 est.), representing about 45% of the country's total population. Lolland Island has the nickname "pancake island" because of its flatness with the highest peak just outside the village of Horslunde standing at only 25 m (82 ft) high. The Nazis and Vikings had realised it's strategic value of the coast of Germany, as had the NATO and Warsaw Pact planners of the Cold War after them. Sugar beet field cover Lolland Island, which also has many sandy beaches. Clay is found at commercially viable levels on the remote Bornholm Island. The Isle of Møn is made almost entirely of chalk. The tiny, ovoid and completely flat Vejrø island lies north of Lolland island. It covers an area of only 1.57 km² and has two inhabitants as of 2005. It had a privately run tourist site, cottages and marina as of 2005. As a fellow Nordic nation, Denmark shares strong cultural and historic ties with its overseas neighbours Sweden and Norway that date back to Viking times and the Danish Language is both very closely related and mutually intelligible with Swedish and Norwegian. Fearoes is related like wise with Icelandic and some Norwegian dialects. The Fearoe Islands are owned by and akin to Denmark since they are for the most part the direct descendent the original Viking settlers. The climatically frigged islands are made up of rugged heathland, scrubland, sharp mountains and steep cliffs.
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