Denmark belong to two autonomous regions in the North Atlantic: the Faroe Islands and Greenland. These areas came first under Danish rule in 1380 and are now both inside politically independent. 1948 was between the Shetland Islands and Iceland, the Faroe Islands Group of their autonomy. Greenland is located in the vicinity of the North American mainland, east of Canada. From 1953 to 1979, its government is an essential part of the Danish kingdom. Without these areas, Denmark has an area of 43 094 square kilometers. The peninsula of Jutland represents nearly 70 percent of the total area of the country dar. The capital of Denmark Copenhagen (Copenhagen).
Denmark is widely used by lowlands, the country is among the flattest in the world. The average height is only 30 meters above sea level. The survey is highest with 173 meters of Yding Skovhøy in the east of the Jutland peninsula.
The vast majority of the landscape received its present character during the last ice age, when the edges of the northern European Inlandeismassen went through Denmark. Today marked the end moraines of the former course of expansion of the ice. A pronounced Moränenzug Limfjorden runs from the west coast of Jutland east to Viborg and further south along the east coast of the peninsula. These moraine represents the boundary between the different types of landscape in the west and east of Denmark dar. The flat western side of Jutland is made from sand and other deposits of glacial melt water up. Along the coast are widespread dunes and sandbars on.
The east side of the peninsula is slightly higher. Its fertile plains alternate with rolling hills from. Numerous fjords divided the coastline and rich are often far into the interior inside. The Limfjord is Denmark’s northernmost fjord and runs east-west direction from the North Sea, Kattegat in the direction far into the interior of Jutland inside, with the North, he is on the Thyborøn-channel. In the north of Jutland is an outstanding balance coastal development. The island of Bornholm is mainly from granite gneiss and geological structure and belongs to southern Sweden. Denmark’s larger islands are loamy soils because of their extremely fruitful. On some islands, such as Zeeland, chalk deposits are distributed, the sometimes steep cliffs formed.
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