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.