The Løgting, or Løgtingið is the parliament of the Motto: None Official language Faroese Capital Tórshavn Monarch Margrethe II Prime Minister Jóannes Eidesgaard Area  - Total  - % water World ranking: 189th 1,399 km² — Population  - Total ( 2004)  - Density World ranking: 211th 48,228 33.1/km² Independence None (Danish dependency... Faroe Islands, a self ruling dependency of Denmark (disambiguation). The Kingdom of Denmark is geographically the smallest Nordic country and is part of the European Union. It is located in Scandinavia, which is in northern Europe. Denmark borders the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, and consists of a peninsula attached to Northern Germany named Jutland (Jylland... Denmark. The name literally means "Law A ting, also thing or þing, was the governing assembly in Germanic societies, made up of the free men of the community. Today the term lives on in the official names of national legislatures, political and judicial institutions in the North-Germanic countries. The German Tag (day, as in Bundestag... Ting", or Lagting in Danish is one of the Scandinavian languages, a sub-group of the Germanic group of the Indo-European language family. History Most Danish words are derived from the Old Norse language, with new words formed by compounding. A large percentage of Danish words, however, hails from Low German (e.g... Danish. Also the parliament on Åland is called Lagting.

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• Country name: conventional long form: none conventional short form: Faroe Islands local long form: none local short form: Føroyar Data code: FO Dependency status: part of the Kingdom of Denmark; self-governing overseas administrative division of Denmark since 1948 Government type: Constitional Monarchy Capital: Tórshavn Administrative divisions: 36... Politics of the Faroe Islands
• Government of the Faroe Islands
• Politics of the Faroe Islands Categories: Election related stubs | Elections in the Faroe Islands ... Elections in the Faroe Islands
• Government Denmark is a constitutional monarchy with an almost unbroken link of monarchs for more than 1,000 years (except for an interregnum of eight years from 1332 to 1340). The current monarch, Queen Margaret II, has largely ceremonial functions; perhaps her most significant formal power lies in her right... Politics of Denmark
• The Folketing, or Folketinget, is the name of the national parliament of Denmark. It literally means the Peoples Ting - that is, the peoples governing assembly. History From 1849 to 1953 the Folketing was one of the houses in the bicameral parliament known as the Rigsdag; the other house... Folketing

External link

• logting.fo - Homepage (http://www.logting.fo) (in Faroese)