Denmark (Danish: Danmark, pronounced (listen)), officially the Kingdom of Denmark, is a Nordic country and the southernmost of the Scandinavian nations. The sovereign state is south-west of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. The Kingdom of Denmark also comprises two autonomous constituent countries in the North Atlantic Ocean: the Faroe Islands and Greenland. Denmark proper consists of a peninsula, Jutland, and an archipelago of 443 named islands, with the largest being Zealand, Funen and the North Jutlandic Island. The islands are characterised by flat, arable land and sandy coasts, low elevation and a temperate climate. Denmark has a total area of 42,924 km (16,573 sq mi), land area of 42,394 km (16,368 sq mi), and the total area including Greenland and the Faroe Islands is 2,210,579 km (853,509 sq mi), and a population of 5.8 million (as of 2018).