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What are the characteristics of Northern Europe?
Northern Europe is a political and geographical term, especially referring to the five sovereign countries of the northern court: Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland. Include Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Iceland in Northern Europe, and the Faroe Islands, which is self-governing. Northern Europe is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean in the west, Eastern Europe in the east, Arctic Ocean in the north and Central Europe in the south, with a total area of 654.38+0.3 million square kilometers. Terrain is platform and eroded mountain, and glacial lake, sheep back, serpentine hills and drum hills are the main geomorphological features. Most of northern Europe belongs to the continental climate of sub-cold zone, with long winters, low temperatures and short and cool summers. Iceland and other places have polar tundra climate, while western Denmark has temperate maritime climate. Nordic countries have relatively low population density and the highest economic level in Europe. The per capita GNP of Denmark, Sweden and other countries is far in the forefront of the world. Forestry, hydropower, iron ore mining, fishery, shipbuilding and shipping are all traditional economic sectors in northern Europe.

Country:

The official language of a country, region and population.

The Kingdom of Sweden has 449,964 square kilometers and 8.9 million Swedish and English languages.

The Kingdom of Denmark covers an area of 43,080 square kilometers, with 5.3 million Danish and English.

The Republic of Finland has 337,032 square kilometers and 565,438+million Finnish and Swedish languages.

The Kingdom of Norway has 386,974 square kilometers and 4.42 million Norwegian and English.

Republic of Iceland 103 106 square kilometers, 270,000 Icelandic and English.

Greenland 2 175600 square kilometers 50000 Greenland and Denmark.

Faroe Islands 1399 km2 46,000 Faroe Islands (Danish)

Oran 1527 square kilometers 25,000 Swedish and Finnish.

Major cities:

Chinese name, original name, population profile

Stockholm10.5 million is the capital of Sweden and the largest city in northern Europe.

Copenhagen k? Benhavn10.4 million is the capital of Denmark and the commercial and transportation center of northern Europe.

Gothenburg g? Teborg 700,000 is the first city in western Sweden and the geographical center of Northern Europe.

Helsinki Helsinki 530,000 is the capital of Finland and the commercial center of the Baltic Sea region.

Oslo Oslo is the capital and important port of Norway with 500,000 people.

Malmo Malmo? 350,000 is the first city in southern Sweden and the third largest city in Sweden.

Aarhus? Rhus265 265,000 Danish Yulan (Mainland China) is the first city.

Bergen Bergen 224,000 is the first city in western Norway and an important port.

Turku Turku 167000 is the first Swedish-speaking city in Finland and the old capital of Finland.

Reykjavik Reykjavik 65438+ million is the capital of Iceland and the northernmost capital in the world.

Toles port Thó rshavn10.4 million Faroe capital, an important seaport in the North Atlantic.