Geography of Denmark capital Copenhagen on Zealand; Århus, Aalborg and Esbjerg in Jutland; and Odense on Funen. Denmark experiences a temperate climate. This means that the winters are mild and windy and the summers are cool. The local terrain is generally flat with a few gently rolling plains. The territory of Denmark includes the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea and the rest of metropolitan Denmark, but excludes the Faroe Islands and Greenland. Its position gives Denmark complete control of the Danish Straits (Skagerrak and Kattegat) linking the Baltic and North Seas. The country's natural resources include petroleum, natural gas, fish, salt,
Municipalities of Denmark 1 January 2003 after the merger of its county with the 5 municipalities was approved in a law by the Folketing 19 March 2002 - thereby abolishing one of the 14 counties in the process - because of its remote location 150 km (93 mi) southeast of Copenhagen retains "some" regional functions and is thus called a "Regional Municipality" - it performs some tasks that are only performed by the regions in the rest of Denmark. (From 1 January 2018 Fanø Municipality will also handle a task on the island which was formerly the responsibility of the Region of Southern