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Ven (older Swedish spelling Hven), is a Swedish island in the Öresund strait laying between Skåne, Sweden and Zealand, Denmark. A part of Landskrona Municipality, Skåne County, the island has an area of 7.5 km 2 (2.9 sq mi) and 371 inhabitants as of 2020. During the 1930s, the population was at its peak, with approximately 1,300 inhabitants.
A 2013 statistics report concluded that there are 267,570 islands in Sweden, though less than 1,000 of these are inhabited. [1] The total area of the islands is 1.2 million hectares, which corresponds to 3% percent of the total land area of Sweden. Most of the islands are in the Baltic Sea regions of the Bay of Bothnia and the Bothnian Sea. [1]
Major Danish islands: Samsø; Sejerø; Major Swedish islands: Orust; Hisingen; Tjörn; Other major Atlantic islands: Azores (Portugal) - politically and culturally associated with Europe; Madeira (Portugal) - politically and culturally associated with Europe; Canary Islands (Spain) - politically and culturally associated with Europe; Faroe ...
This is a list of articles holding galleries of maps of present-day countries and dependencies. The list includes all countries listed in the List of countries , the French overseas departments, the Spanish and Portuguese overseas regions and inhabited overseas dependencies.
Google Maps Navigation is a mobile application developed by Google for the Android and iOS operating systems that later integrated into the Google Maps mobile app. The application uses an Internet connection to a GPS navigation system to provide turn-by-turn voice-guided instructions on how to arrive at a given destination. [1]
Google Maps' location tracking is regarded by some as a threat to users' privacy, with Dylan Tweney of VentureBeat writing in August 2014 that "Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps", and linked users to Google's location history map, which "lets you see the path you've traced for any given day that your ...
Below is a list of European countries and dependencies by area in Europe. [1] As a continent, Europe's total geographical area is about 10 million square kilometres. [2] Transcontinental countries are ranked according to the size of their European part only, excluding Greece due to the not clearly defined boundaries of its islands between ...
Largest island of Europe. Largest island of the United Kingdom (73% of the state area) 2: Iceland: 101,826: 39,315 Iceland: Largest island of Iceland (99% of the state area) 3: Ireland: 84,421: 32,595 Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom (Northern Ireland) 4: Severny Island: 47,079: 18,177 Russia: Northern Island of Novaya Zemlya. Largest island ...