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Faroe Islands: map and facts

The Faroe Islands is in Northern Europe. It has 54,900 people (2025). It covers 1,393 km². That is about 39 people per km². Its highest point is Slaettaratindur, at 880 m.

The Faroe Islands and the sea around it. The triangle marks its highest point, Slaettaratindur; the circle marks its capital, Tórshavn. Boundaries follow India’s official position.

Facts

Population: 54,900 (2025, World Bank)
Area: 1,393 km² (UN Demographic Yearbook). This figure covers a different area from the one this map shows: as drawn, about 1,320 km².
Capital: Tórshavn
Highest point: Slaettaratindur, 880 m (Wikidata)
Forest: 0.1% of the land (2024, World Bank)

Mountains and landscapes

Its highest peaks:

Slaettaratindur: 880 m (its highest point)

Land

Landforms, worked out from the height of the land (USGS GMTED2010): mountains 67.7%, hills 32.3%.

Forests covered 0.1% of its land in 2024, the same as in 1990 (World Bank).

Neighbours

The Faroe Islands has no land borders on this map.

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Sources

India’s boundaries are drawn according to India’s official position, simplified for small-scale maps (data: Natural Earth, India view). Each figure shows its year and source; some are rounded. Data release 2026.2.

Natural Earth (naturalearthdata.com), public domain. Boundaries follow India's official position (Natural Earth's India point of view). Terms
GMTED2010 courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey (Danielson and Gesch 2011, USGS Open-File Report 2011-1073). Terms
The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL): UN Population Division, national statistical offices (2025 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Rounded by Make Me Smarter. Terms
The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Forest area (% of land area) (AG.LND.FRST.ZS): FAO, FAOSTAT (2024 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Rounded by Make Me Smarter. Terms
Wikidata (CC0): names, capitals, peak heights and river lengths, checked by Make Me Smarter. Terms
Landforms worked out by Make Me Smarter from GMTED2010.
Some figures corrected by Make Me Smarter from published references: Australian Bureau of Statistics; Atlas of Canada; CIA World Factbook (archived); FAO; FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment 2025; FSM Statistics; GeoNames; Gilbertson & Gilbertson's GPS surveys of national high points; INEGI (Mexico); Peaklist.org; PeakVisor; Government of the Pitcairn Islands; Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program; Statistics Finland; UN Demographic Yearbook; UN World Population Prospects 2024; Wikidata; Wikipedia.

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