Denmark

In the south it has a common border with Germany, but elsewhere is surrounded entirely by water. The long German frontier, running obliquely across the Jutland peninsula, stretches for some 68km/42 miles; the coastline is about 7400km/4598 miles in length. To the west Denmark is bordered by the North Sea, but a large part of its territory lies in the Baltic. Two narrow straits, the Kattegat and Skagerrak (east and north-west of Jutland respectively), separate the Baltic, an inland sea, from the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean beyond. Owing to its position Denmark has always acted as a stepping-stone between Central Europe and the countries of the Scandinavian peninsula
Situated on the edge of the Central European climatic zone and surrounded on all sides by water (apart from the land frontier between South Jutland and Germany), Denmark has a cool temperate maritime climate similar to that of Scotland and the northern half of England.