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the dramatic fjords, mountains, and vast lakes of other Scandinavian nations.
Danes (not to mention Swedes and Norwegians) like to joke about the flat
Danish landscape, saying that you can stand on a case of beer and see from
one end of the country to the other. Denmark's highest point in Jutland is only
560 feet above sea level, and no part of the country is more than 30 miles from
the ocean.
In contrast to the rest of Scandinavia, much of Denmark is arable. The
landscape consists of rolling hills, small thatched-roof farmhouses, beech
forests, and whitewashed churches with characteristic stairstep gables. Red
brick, which was a favorite material of the nation-building King Christian IV,
is everywhere—especially in major civic buildings such as city halls and train
stations.
