<hdr>The World Factbook 1994: Denmark<nl>Geography</hdr><body>
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<item><hi format=bold>Location:</hi> Nordic State, Northern Europe, bordering the North Sea on a peninsula north of Germany
<item><hi format=bold>Area:</hi>
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<item>• <hi format=ital>total area:</hi> 43,070 sq km
<item>• <hi format=ital>land area:</hi> 42,370 sq km
<item>• <hi format=ital>comparative area:</hi> slightly more than twice the size of Massachusetts
<item>• <hi format=ital>note:</hi> includes the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea and the rest of metropolitan Denmark, but excludes the Faroe Islands and Greenland
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<item><hi format=bold>Land boundaries:</hi> total 68 km, Germany 68 km
<item><hi format=bold>International disputes:</hi> Rockall continental shelf dispute involving Iceland, Ireland, and the UK (Ireland and the UK have signed a boundary agreement in the Rockall area); dispute between Denmark and Norway over maritime boundary in Arctic Ocean between Greenland and Jan Mayen has been settled by the International Court of Justice
<item><hi format=bold>Climate:</hi> temperate; humid and overcast; mild, windy winters and cool summers
<item><hi format=bold>Terrain:</hi> low and flat to gently rolling plains
<item>• <hi format=ital>meadows and pastures:</hi> 6%
<item>• <hi format=ital>forest and woodland:</hi> 12%
<item>• <hi format=ital>other:</hi> 21%
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<item><hi format=bold>Irrigated land:</hi> 4,300 sq km (1989 est.)
<item><hi format=bold>Environment:</hi>
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<item>• <hi format=ital>current issues:</hi> air pollution; nitrogen and phosphorus pollution of the North Sea; drinking and surface water becoming polluted from animal wastes
<item>• <hi format=ital>natural hazards:</hi> NA
<item>• <hi format=ital>international agreements:</hi> party to—Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Sulphur, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Marine Dumping, Marine Life Conservation, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber, Wetlands, Whaling; signed, but not ratified—Air Pollution-Volatile Organic Compounds, Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Law of the Sea
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<item><hi format=bold>Note:</hi> controls Danish Straits linking Baltic and North Seas; about one-quarter of the population lives in Copenhagen