List of national parks of Denmark
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There are six national parks in the Kingdom of Denmark; five in Denmark proper and one in Greenland.
The first national park in Denmark proper was Thy National Park (Danish: Nationalpark Thy), created in 2008. It is located in Thisted Municipality, Nordjylland. The park is a narrow stretch of land along the North Jutlandic Island's west coast from Hanstholm southward to Agger Tange, excluding Hanstholm, Klitmøller, Nørre Vorupør, Stenbjerg and Agger. Thy National Park is named after Thy, an area that includes not only today's national park but also adjacent land further east. The park has dunes, heath, forests and grassland and also covers several small lakes and a small part of the Limfjord, which is the fjord that separates the North Jutlandic Island from the Cimbrian Peninsula.
In August 2009, the second national park Mols Bjerge National Park was inaugurated, followed by Wadden Sea National Park in October 2010, Land of the Scylding National Park in 2015, and Kongernes Nordsjælland National Park in 2018. An additional area in mainland Denmark was proposed in 2008 to become a national park: the Skjern Å Nationalpark (after the river of the same name), but it was abandoned in 2012, though the process was restarted in 2018 and is ongoing.
In 2020, work began on establishing nature national parks. These will strictly be on land owned by the Danish state, unlike the ordinary national parks where some parts are on private and municipal land.
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