Frommer's Scandinavia
Chapter One
Scandinavia in Depth
1 SCANDINAVIA TODAY
DENMARK
Denmark has been called a bridge because
it links northern Europe with the Scandinavian
Peninsula. In 2000 that became
literally true, as the Øresund Bridge
opened across the sound, connecting the
island of Zealand, where Copenhagen is,
with Sweden, at the city of Malmö, for the
first time in history.
The smallest of the Scandinavian countries
(about half the size of Maine), its
total land mass equals about 41,400 sq.
km (16,000 sq. miles), most of which is on
the peninsula of Jutland, which borders
Germany. The major islands are Zealand,
Funen, and Bornholm. Denmark has adequate
space for its population of 5.5 million
people, but its population density is
much greater than that of the other Scandinavian
countries. About 1.4 million
Danes live in the capital city, Copenhagen,
on the island of Zealand.
About 98% of all native-born Danes
belong to the Danish Lutheran Church,
the state church, although church attendance
is actually low. The second-l ... read full excerpt from Frommer's Scandinavia (Frommer's Complete #658) ebook
