Faroe Islands Zip Codes

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Faroe Islands Overview

The Faroe Islands are a North Atlantic archipelago situated 320 kilometers from Scotland's northwest. The Faroe Islands is an autonomous territory just like Greenland within Denmark.

Geography of Faroe Islands

The Faroe Islands consists of 18 main islands with a total of 779 islands, skerries, and islets. However, the country is situated between the North Atlantic Ocean. The Norwegian Sea and about halfway between Iceland and Norway. At the same time, the closest neighbors to the Faroe Islands are Northern Isles and Scotland's Outer Hebrides. The islands are covering approx. 1,399 square kilometers area with different small rivers and lakes. At the same time, Lítla Dímun is the only uninhabited island here.

Trade policy in the Faroe Islands

Even though part of Denmark but since 1948, Faroe Islands have been self-governing, controlling most of its areas except policing, military defense, justice, foreign affairs, and currency.

• As the Faroe Islands aren't part of the same customs area, such as Denmark, the country contains its trade policy.
• According to this, the country can make trade agreements with other states independently. The country even contains Hoyvík Agreement with Iceland, which is a bilateral free trade agreement. However, the country is represented as the Danish delegation in the Nordic Councils.

The economy of the Faroe Islands

The country suffered from economic difficulties due to the Faroese fishing industry's collapse in the 1990s. It brought a higher unemployment rate here, which was decreased till the end of 1998 significantly. The government has been fostering new IT and business projects in the region to attract more investments.

Data Sources

This database was extracted from Geonames website and Wikipedia.

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