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Faroe Islands

Location N Atlantic Ocean, between Norway and Iceland
Latitude and longitude  62 00 N, 7 00 W
Sovereignty Denmark
Population  48,650
Census notes January 1, 2010
Land area in square kilometers 1,399
Capital  Tórshavn

Sources and other useful websites

Dependencies and Areas of Special Sovereignty, Office of the Geographer and Global Issues, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C.
The Faeroe Islands and The Faeroe Islands: An Overview,  from the Government of Denmark
Fishery Country Profile—Faeroe Islands, from the Food and Agriculture Organization
Island Vulnerability: Faroe Islands
Faroe Islands In Figures (PDF 1400K), from Hagstova Føroya (Statistics Faroe Islands)
Løgmansskrivstovan (Prime Minister's Office)
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, The World Factbook

Selected articles on law and political status

The Faroe Islands - Information Memorandum from the Landsbanki Føroya (the Governmental Bank of the Faroe Islands) (2005) (PDF 595K) and its Statistical Appendix (2005) (PDF 221K)
The Faroe Islands, in The Working Autonomies in Europe: Territorial autonomy as a Means of Minority Protection and Conflict Solution in the European Experience - An Overview and Schematic Comparison, by Thomas Benedikter (2006) (scroll to 2.2.1)
Peoples as Subjects of Public International Law: The Faroese People, by Professor Gudmundur Alfredsson 
Possibilities for Increased Faroese Autonomy, by Professor Hurst Hannum (1999?) (DOC 73K) 

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