Falster Island
Island
Country	Denmark
Municipality	Falster municipality
Area	514 km² (198 sq mi)
Center
- coordinates	54°48′0″N 11°58′0″E / 54.8, 11.96667Coordinates: 54°48′0″N 11°58′0″E / 54.8, 11.96667
Population	43,537 (2005)
Municipality	since January 2007
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
- summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Falster Island (bottom center) in Denmark

Farø south bridge to Falster. The Kingdom of Denmark ( ˈd̥ænmɑɡ̊ (archaic ˈd̥anmɑːɡ̊ commonly known as Denmark, is a country in the Scandinavian region of northern Europe Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of The square mile is an imperial and US unit of Area equal the area of a square of one statute mile. A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Central European Time ( CET) is one of the names of the Time zone that is 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. UTC+1 is used in the following locations Central European Time West Africa Time Western European Summer Time Central European Summer Time ( CEST) is one of the names of UTC+2 Time zone, 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. UTC+2 corresponds to the following Time zones Eastern European Time Egypt Standard Time Central Africa Time

Falster is a Danish island. The Kingdom of Denmark ( ˈd̥ænmɑɡ̊ (archaic ˈd̥anmɑːɡ̊ commonly known as Denmark, is a country in the Scandinavian region of northern Europe The area of the island is 514 km² (198 sq. miles), and there are 43,537 inhabitants, over 40% of whom live in the principal town, Nykøbing Falster. Nykøbing Falster is a southern Danish City located in Guldborgsund ''kommune''. It includes Denmark's southernmost point, Gedser Odde, near Gedser. Gedser is a town at the southern tip of the Danish island of Falster in Guldborgsund municipality, Region Sjælland, and the southernmost

It is connected to Zealand in the north by two bridges – the Farø Bridges (Farøbroerne) are part of Euroroute E47 from Copenhagen (and Helsingborg) to Lübeck (and thence Hamburg and the south). Zealand (also Sealand Danish: Sjælland;) is the largest Island (7031 km² of Denmark (excluding Greenland The Farø Bridges ( Danish, Farøbroerne are two Road bridges that connect the islands of Falster and Zealand (Sjælland in Denmark The international E-road network is a numbering system for Roads in Europe developed by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE. Copenhagen (ˌkəʊpənˈheɪgən ˌkəʊpənˈhɑːgən ˈkəʊpənˌheɪgən ˈkəʊpənˌhɑːgən kʰøb̥ənˈhɑʊ̯ˀn kʰøb̥m̩ˈhɑʊ̯ˀn is the capital and largest city Helsingborg (between 1912 and 1971 spelled Hälsingborg) is a city in Scania in the southernmost part of Sweden, which has a population Lübeck ( is the second largest City in Schleswig-Holstein, in Northern Germany, and one of the major Hamburg (English, German: ˈhambʊɐk local pronunciation Low German / Low Saxon: Hamborg) is the second-largest city in Germany The E47 continues via a tunnel under the Guldborgsund strait to the western neighbouring island of Lolland. Guldborgsund is the Strait between the Danish islands of Lolland and Falster that connects Smålandsfarvandet in the north with Lolland (formerly spelled Lohland) is the fourth largest Island of Denmark, with an area of some 1243 Square kilometers (480 sq From there, a ferry connects to Germany, but plans exist for a Fehmarn Belt bridge to replace the ferry. The Fehmarn Belt bridge ( Danish: da Femern Bælt-forbindelsen, German: de Fehmarnbelt-Querung) is a project to connect the German The Farø bridges join on the small island of Farø, and from there a further bridge gives access to the eastern neighbouring island of Møn. Mön redirects here Mön is also the Icelandic name for the Isle of Man, q

There are two other bridges connecting to Lolland: the Guldborgsund Bridge at the northern end of the strait and the Frederick IX Bridge at Nykøbing Falster. The Frederick IX bridge (named for King Frederick IX) spans the Guldborgsund strait between the islands of Falster and Lolland in Denmark

See also

• Lolland, Langeland, Zealand - islands of Denmark

External links

• Map of Lolland and Falster