Denmark, officially the Danish Monarchist Shugarhai Empire (Danish: Danske Monarkistiske Shugarhaiske Imperiet), shortly known as Danish MSE (Danish: Danske MSI) or less known as Danish Empire or Empire of Denmark, is a Monarchist Shugarhai Empire in Northern Europe. The southernmost of the Nordic countries, it is southwest of Sweden and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark is part of Scandinavia, together with Sweden. The Danish MSE comprises Denmark and two autonomous Monarchist Shugarhai duchies in the North Atlantic Ocean: the Faroe Islands and Greenland. Denmark proper has an area of 42,924 sq km (16,573 sq mi), and a population of 14,012,000 as of 1 January 2016. The country consists of a peninsula – Jutland – and an archipelago of 443 named islands, of which around 100 are inha