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___MASK45___ is the largest ( 7 , 031 km ) and ___MASK58___ populated island in ___MASK34___ with a population of 2 , 267 , 659 ( 39 % of ___MASK34___ ' s total as of January 2016 ). ___MASK57___ Municipality , is a Danish municipality (" kommune ") in Region of Southern Denmark on the island of ___MASK30___ in central Denmark . The municipality covers an area of , and has a population of 196 , 090 ( 1 April 2014 ). It is the most populous municipality in Region of Southern Denmark . ___MASK57___ is the third - largest city in Denmark . It has a population of 175 , 245 as of January 2016 , and is the main city of the island of ___MASK30___ . By road , ___MASK57___ is located north of Svendborg , to the south of Aarhus and to the southwest of Copenhagen . The city is the seat of ___MASK57___ Municipality and was the seat of ___MASK57___ County until 1970 , and ___MASK30___ County from 1970 until 1 January 2007 , when ___MASK30___ County became part of the Region of Southern Denmark . ___MASK57___ has close associations with Hans Christian Andersen who is remembered above all for his fairy tales . He was born in the city in 1805 and spent his childhood years there . The Kongemose culture (" Kongemosekulturen ") was a mesolithic hunter - gatherer culture in southern Scandinavia ca . 6000 BC  5200 BC and the origin of the Ertebølle culture . It was preceded by the Maglemosian culture . In the north it bordered on the Scandinavian Nøstvet and Lihult cultures . The Kongemose culture is named after a location in western ___MASK45___ and its typical form is known from ___MASK34___ and Skåne . The finds are characterised by long flintstone flakes , used for making the characteristic rhombic arrowheads , scrapers , drills , awls , and toothed blades . Tiny micro blades constituted the edges of bone daggers that were often decorated with geometric patterns . Stone axes were made of various stones , and other tools were made of ___MASK78___ and bone . The main economy was based on hunting red deer , roe deer , and wild boar , supplemented by fishing at the coastal settlements . An archipelago , sometimes called an island group or island chain , is a chain , cluster or collection of islands . The word " archipelago " is derived from the Greek "  -  arkhi -" (" chief ") and "   pélagos " (" ___MASK11___ ") through the Italian " arcipelago ". In Italian , possibly following a tradition of antiquity , the Archipelago ( from medieval Greek "*  " and Latin " archipelagus ") was the proper name for the ___MASK71___ and , later , usage shifted to refer to the Aegean Islands ( since the ___MASK11___ is remarkable for its large number of islands ). It is now used to refer to any island group or , sometimes , to a ___MASK11___ containing a small number of scattered islands . ___MASK73___ (; Norwegian : ( Bokmål ) or ( Nynorsk ); Sami : " Norgga "), officially the Kingdom of ___MASK73___ , is a sovereign and unitary monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the island Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard . The ___MASK80___ Peter I Island and the sub - ___MASK80___ Bouvet Island are dependent territories and thus not considered part of the Kingdom . ___MASK73___ also lays claim to a section of ___MASK8___ known as Queen Maud Land . Until 1814 , the Kingdom included the Faroe Islands ( since 1035 ), Greenland ( 1261 ), and ___MASK64___ ( 1262 ). It also included Shetland and Orkney until 1468 . It also included the following provinces , now in Sweden : Jämtland , Härjedalen and Bohuslän . ___MASK34___ is a Scandinavian country in Europe . The southernmost and smallest of the Nordic countries , it is south - west of Sweden and south of Norway , and bordered to the south by Germany . The Kingdom of ___MASK34___ is the sovereign state that comprises ___MASK34___ proper and two autonomous constituent countries in the North ___MASK12___ : the Faroe Islands and Greenland . ___MASK34___ has a total area of , and a population of 5 . 7 million . The country consists of a peninsula , Jutland , and an archipelago of 443 named islands , with the largest being Zealand and ___MASK30___ . The islands are characterised by flat , arable land and sandy coasts , low elevation and a temperate climate . ___MASK4___ ( officially spelled Århus from 1948 until 31 December 2010 ) is the second - largest city in ___MASK34___ and the seat of ___MASK4___ municipality . It is located on the east coast of the Jutland peninsula , in the geographical centre of ___MASK34___ , northwest of Copenhagen and north of ___MASK39___ , Germany . The inner urban area contains 264 , 716 inhabitants and the municipal population is 330 , 639 . ___MASK4___ is the central city in the East Jutland metropolitan area , which had a total population of 1 . 378 million in 2016 . ___MASK5___ , officially the Kingdom of ___MASK5___ ( Swedish : ), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe . It borders ___MASK73___ to the west and Finland to the east , and is connected to ___MASK34___ in the southwest by a bridge - tunnel across the Öresund . At , ___MASK5___ is the third - largest country in the European ___MASK7___ by area , with a total population of 10 . 0 million . ___MASK5___ consequently has a low population density of , with the highest concentration in the southern half of the country . Approximately 85 % of the population lives in urban areas . ___MASK53___ is a town on the island of ___MASK30___ in south - central Denmark , and the seat of ___MASK53___ Municipality . With a population of 26 , 672 ( 1 January 2014 ), ___MASK53___ is ___MASK30___ ' s second largest city . In 2000 ___MASK53___ was declared " Town of the year " in Denmark , and in 2003 it celebrated its 750th anniversary as a market town . By road , ___MASK53___ is located southwest of Copenhagen , south of Aarhus , south of Odense , and east of Faaborg . Hans Christian Andersen ( often referred to in Scandinavia as H . C . Andersen ; ( 2 April 1805  4 ___MASK60___ 1875 ) was a Danish author . Although a prolific writer of plays , travelogues , novels , and poems , Andersen is best remembered for his fairy tales . Andersen ' s popularity is not limited to children ; his stories , called in Danish , express themes that transcend age and nationality . ___MASK57___ County is a former province in Denmark , located on the northern half of the island of ___MASK30___ in central Denmark . ___MASK57___ County was established in 1806 and abolished in 1970 when it merged with Svendborg County forming the new ___MASK30___ County . The Tardenoisian ( or Beuronian ) is an archaeological culture of the Epipaleolithic period from northern ___MASK13___ and ___MASK63___ . Similar cultures are known further east in ___MASK54___ Europe , parts of Britain . and west across Spain . It is named after the Tardenois region in ___MASK13___ , where E . Taté first discovered its characteristic artifacts in 1885 . A bog body is a human cadaver that has been naturally mummified in a peat bog . Such bodies , sometimes known as bog people , are both geographically and chronologically widespread , having been dated to between 8000 BCE and the Second World War . The unifying factor of the bog bodies is that they have been found in peat and are partially preserved ; however , the actual levels of preservation vary widely from perfectly preserved to ___MASK20___ skeletons . The ___MASK70___ ( Irish : " Na Scigirí ") are an archipelago between the Norwegian ___MASK11___ and the North Atlantic approximately halfway between Norway and Iceland , north - northwest of mainland Scotland . The area is approximately with a 2016 population of 49 , 188 . The islands are an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark . The Koelbjerg Woman is the oldest known bog body and also the oldest set of human bones found in ___MASK34___ , dated to the time of the Maglemosian culture around 8000 BC . Her remains are held in the Fyns Oldtid museum in Hollufgård in ___MASK57___ , ___MASK34___ . ___MASK61___ is an autonomous constituent country within the Danish Realm between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans , east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago . Though physiographically a part of the continent of North America , ___MASK61___ has been politically and culturally associated with Europe ( specifically Norway and Denmark , the colonial powers , as well as the nearby island of ___MASK64___ ) for more than a millennium . The majority of its residents are Inuit , whose ancestors migrated began migrating from the Canadian mainland in the 13th century , gradually settling across the island . ___MASK82___ (, ); ) is the capital and ___MASK58___ populated city of ___MASK34___ . It has a municipal population of 591 , 481 and a larger urban population of 1 , 280 , 371 . The ___MASK82___ metropolitan area has just over 2 million inhabitants . The city is situated on the eastern coast of the island of Zealand ; another small portion of the city is located on Amager , and is separated from ___MASK51___ , Sweden , by the strait of Øresund . The Øresund Bridge connects the two cities by rail and road . Fyns Amt ( English : ___MASK30___ County ) is a former county ( Danish , " amt ") in central Denmark , comprising the islands of ___MASK30___ , Langeland , Tåsinge , Ærø , and approximately 90 other islands , of which only 25 are inhabited . The county was formed on 1 April 1970 , comprising the former counties of Odense and Svendborg . The county was abolished from 1 January 2007 , when it merged into Region Syddanmark ( i . e . " Region South Denmark "). Peat , also called turf , is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation or organic matter that is unique to natural areas called peatlands , bogs , or mires . The peatland ecosystem is the ___MASK58___ efficient carbon sink on the planet because peatland plants capture the CO which is naturally released from the peat , thus maintaining an equilibrium . In natural peatlands , the " annual rate of biomass production is greater than the rate of decomposition ", but it takes " thousands of years for peatlands to develop the deposits of , which is the average depth of the boreal peatlands ". One of the ___MASK58___ common components is " Sphagnum " ___MASK32___ ( peat ___MASK32___ ), although many other plants can contribute . Soils that contain mostly peat are known as histosols . Peat forms in wetland conditions , where flooding obstructs flows of oxygen from the atmosphere , slowing rates of decomposition . ___MASK2___ , also known as the Cimbric or Cimbrian Peninsula , is a peninsula of Northern Europe that forms the continental portion of ___MASK34___ and the northern portion of Germany . The names are derived from the Jutes and the Cimbri , respectively . ___MASK2___ ' s terrain is relatively flat , with open lands , heaths , ___MASK3___ and peat bogs in the west and a more elevated and slightly hilly terrain in the east . Europe is a continent that comprises the westernmost part of Eurasia . Europe is bordered by the ___MASK47___ ___MASK41___ to the north , the ___MASK12___ to the west , and the Mediterranean Sea to the south . To the east and southeast , Europe is generally considered as separated from Asia by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains , the Ural River , the Caspian and Black Seas , and the waterways of the Turkish Straits . Yet the non - oceanic borders of Europe  a concept dating back to classical antiquity  are arbitrary . The primarily physiographic term " continent " as applied to Europe also incorporates cultural and political elements whose discontinuities are not always reflected by the continent ' s current overland boundaries . Region of Southern ___MASK34___ is an administrative region of ___MASK34___ established on Monday 1 January 2007 as part of the 2007 Danish Municipal Reform , which replaced the traditional counties (" amter ") with five larger regions . At the same time , smaller municipalities were merged into larger units , cutting the number of municipalities from 271 before 1 January 2006 to 98 . The reform was implemented in ___MASK34___ on 1 January 2007 , although the merger of the Funish municipalities of Ærøskøbing and Marstal , being a part of the reform , was given the go - ahead to be implemented on Sunday 1 January 2006 , one year before the main reform . The Nordic countries or Nordics are a geographical and cultural region in Northern Europe and the ___MASK55___ , where they are ___MASK58___ commonly known as ___MASK86___ ( lit ., " The North "). They consist of Denmark , Finland , ___MASK64___ , Norway , and Sweden , including their associated territories ( Greenland , the Faroe Islands , and the Åland Islands ). ___MASK30___ , with an area of , is the third - largest island of Denmark , after Zealand and Vendsyssel - Thy . It is the 165th - largest island in the world . It is in the central part of the country and has a population of 466 , 284 ( 2013 ). The main city is Odense which is connected to the sea by a seldom - used canal . The city ' s shipyard , Odense Steel Shipyard , has been relocated outside Odense proper . ___MASK93___ , officially the Federal Republic of ___MASK93___ , is a federal parliamentary republic in ___MASK54___ - western Europe . It includes 16 constituent states , covers an area of , and has a largely temperate seasonal climate . With about 82 million inhabitants , ___MASK93___ is the ___MASK58___ populous member state of the European ___MASK7___ . After the United States , it is the second ___MASK58___ popular immigration destination in the world . ___MASK93___ ' s capital and largest metropolis is Berlin . Other major cities include ___MASK39___ , Munich , ___MASK33___ , Frankfurt , Stuttgart and Düsseldorf . Maglemosian ( c . 9000  c . 6000 BC ) is the name given to a culture of the early Mesolithic period in North Europe . In Scandinavia , the culture was succeeded by the Kongemose culture and Tardenoisian culture .