Funen

(Local Name: Fyn) District: Fyns amt

Area: 3,482sq.km/1,344sq.mi

Situation and Topography

Funen, Fyn in Danish, the second largest island of Denmark, lies between Jutland and Zealand. Its west coast is washed by the Little Belt, the east coast by the Great Belt. The area is generally flat; only in the southwest is there a wooded moraine ridge known as the "Funen Alps". The fertile marl soil yields an abundance of agricultural produce, which has led to the island's being called the "Garden of Denmark".

Funen can be reached from Jutland by one of the two bridges spanning the Little Belt. The older of the two (1935), to the south, is a reinforced concrete structure 1,178m/1,300yd long