Country Name
The Faroe Islands.
Location
The Faroe Islands are a North Atlantic archipelago located 320 kilometers (200 mi) north-northwest of Scotland, and about halfway between Norway and Iceland.
Like Greenland, it is an independent territory within the Kingdom of Denmark.
Capital
Tórshavn.
Flag
The flag was adopted on 25 April 1940.
The flag takes its design from Christianity, it is composed of a white background with the cross of the Faroe Islands’ flag that is red with blue lines outlining the whole cross except for its ends.
The white color represents the sea’s foam, the region’s bright sky, and the flag’s three creators, Jens Lisberg, Janus Øssursson, and Paul Dahl;
while the old Faroese blue and red colors are reminiscent of other Scandinavian and Nordic flags; representing the Faroe Islands' bonds with other Nordic countries.
*Flag Facts:
- The flag is called Merkið, which means "the banner" or "the mark".
Language
The Faroese language* is the official language in the Faroe Islands and is used in all matters in business, administration, political and cultural life.
Danish is the second language and practically everyone can speak and write Danish.
Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish are understood and spoken in many places, and most people are capable of communicating in English too.
*Faroese derives from Old Norse and is closely related to Icelandic, Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish.
Religion
The majority of the Faroese population, approximately 85 %, belongs to the Faroese Evangelical Lutheran Church.
The Faroe Islands is a diocese divided into 14 parishes with a total of 62 churches and 9 houses of prayer.
There are several other religious communities in the Faroes, the largest community is the Plymouth Brethren, and about 13 % of the total population belongs to this community.
Other minority religious communities are the Catholic Church, the Salvation Army, the Pentecostal Movement, Seventh Day Adventists, Jehovah's Witnesses, the Philadelphia congregation (a branch of the Pentecostal Movement), and the Bahá’í Faith.
Currency
Faroese króna (DKK).
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