Denmark Description

Denmark called the green pearl of Scandinavia. Denmark - a small Scandinavian country (small, except for referring to her vast Greenland) seems a toy. It is extremely clean, the houses seem painty and greens unnaturally bright.

Kingdom of Denmark (Kongeriget Danmark) - the smallest and most southern of the Scandinavian countries. It is located on the peninsula of Jutland and 406 islands in the North and Baltic Seas, the largest of which - Vendsyussel-Ti, Shellann, Funen, Zealand, Loland, Falster, Bornholm. Denmark also belong to Greenland and the Faroe Islands, have the right to self-government.

Capital - Copenhagen (Copenhagen), located on the east coast of Jutland, on the shores of Oresund strait separating Denmark and Sweden. Major cities - Aarhus, Odense, Aalborg. In the north-east o.Zelandiya located Elsinore, the city of Hamlet. Every summer here in the open air in the castle Kronborg satisfied with the submission of Shakespeare's famous tragedy. Roskilde is a majestic cathedral, consecrated in 1084. Here are buried the kings of the country. This city is the historical center of religious activities in Denmark.

The country is flat, the highest point of the country's 173 m - Mount Iding-Skovhoy (Yding Skovhoj) in eastern Jutland, and the lowest point (12 m below sea level) - on the west coast of Jutland. The eastern coast of Denmark highly fragmented and full of coves and inlets, western and northern - mostly aligned and surrounded by sand dunes and beaches.