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<text>
<title>
Denmark: Geography
</title>
<article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Denmark
Geography</hdr><body>
<p>Location: Northwestern Europe, bordering the North Sea on a
peninsula north of Germany
</p>
<list>
<l>Area:</l>
<l> total area: 43,070 km2</l>
<l> land area: 42,370 km2</l>
<l> comparative area: slightly more than twice the size of
Massachusetts</l>
</list>
<p>note: includes the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea and
the rest of metropolitan Denmark, but excludes the Faroe Islands
and Greenland
</p>
<p>Land boundaries: total 68 km, Germany 68 km
</p>
<p>Coastline: 3,379 km
</p>
<list>
<l>Maritime claims:</l>
<l> contiguous zone: 4 nm</l>
<l> continental shelf: 200 m depth or to depth of
exploitation</l>
<l> exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm</l>
<l> territorial sea: 3 nm</l>
</list>
<p>International disputes: 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 is before the
International Court of Justice
</p>
<p>Climate: temperate; humid and overcast; mild, windy winters
and cool summers
</p>
<p>Terrain: low and flat to gently rolling plains
</p>
<p>Natural resources: petroleum, natural gas, fish, salt,
limestone
</p>
<list>
<l>Land use:</l>
<l> arable land: 61%</l>
<l> permanent crops: 0%</l>
<l> meadows and pastures: 6%</l>
<l> forest and woodland: 12%</l>
<l> other: 21%</l>
</list>
<p>Irrigated land: 4,300 km2 (1989 est.)
</p>
<p>Environment: air and water pollution
</p>
<p>Note: controls Danish Straits linking Baltic and North Seas
</p></body></article></text>