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Military Geography
FIGURE 1. Location and comparative areas (U/OU) (map)
A. Location and description (U/OU)
Denmark, consisting of a peninsula and numerous islands[1], is located between West Germany and the Scandinavian peninsula and separates the Baltic Sea from the North Sea (Figure 19). From Denmark, military forces could control movement between the Baltic Sea and the Atlantic Ocean through the three tenuous, easily blocked straits of the Danish Archipelago (Lille Baelt, Store Baelt, and The Sound). The Faeroe Islands, representing approximately 3% of the land in the NIS Area, are in the North Atlantic about 525 nautical miles northwest of Denmark.
Denmark has an area of approximately 16,600 square miles, about one-half the size of Maine (Figure 1). More than two-thirds of the total land area of Denmark is in the Jutland peninsula. The remaining one-third is composed of approximately 500 islands and inlets; two of these islands, Sjaelland and Fyn, comprised nearly 75% of the island area. The length of Denmark north-south is about 210 miles[2], and the maximum east-west extent, excluding Bornholm, is about 180 miles. The population, about 5,016,000, is five times that of Maine.
The Faeroe Islands have a land area of 510 square miles, divided among about 20 islands. They have a maximum north-south extent of about 70 miles and a maximum northeast-southwest extent of about 50 miles. The population is about 40,000.
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- ↑ Denmark includes the Jutland peninsula, the adjacent islands, and the island of Bornholm. The Faeroe Islands are controlled by Denmark but are semiautonomous. Greenland, a first order administrative division of Denmark, comprises NIS 67, and its military geography is not described in this General Survey.
- ↑ Distances are in statute miles, unless nautical miles are specifically indicated.
