Population is about 48,678 people, the 211th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 157,709 of everyone alive.
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Faeroe Is.
Faroe Islands ยท Fรฆrรธerne
Europe
ยท Northern Europe
0Population
1.39Kkmยฒ of land
$64.01KGDP / person
-Capital
- ISO codes
- FO ยท FRO
- Density
- 35 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Danish, Faroese
- Currencies
- Danish krone (DKK), Faroese krรณna (FOK)
- Dial code
- +298
- Internet domain
- .fo
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 62.1860ยฐ N, 7.0580ยฐ W
- Demonym
- Faroese
- UN region
- Northern Europe
- Economy
- Developed region: nonG7
- Income group
- High income: nonOECD
- Total GDP
- $3.12B
- Sovereignty
- Not independent ยท not a UN member
- Borders
- None
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By the numbers
How Faeroe Is. stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
211th
of 242 ยท 0.00% of world population
Land area
182nd
of 242 ยท 0.00% of world land
GDP per person
17th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
173rd
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Faeroe Is.
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Covers 1,393 kmยฒ, making it the 182nd largest country here - about 4.4 times the size of Malta.
Population density is about 35 people per kmยฒ.
Has no land neighbours - it is an island nation, surrounded entirely by water.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Atlantic/Faroe.
The currency is the Danish krone (DKK, symbol kr).
Has 2 official languages: Danish and Faroese.
Dials on +298 and uses the .fo internet domain.
Annual GDP is around $3 billion - the 180th largest economy here, or about $64,012 per person.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Atlantic/Faroe
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Faroe Islands
Island
Eighteen basalt islands in the North Atlantic where sheep outnumber people and the weather changes by the hour.