Fanø occurs as Danish island in the North Sea off the coast of southwestern Denmark, and is one of a North Frisian Islands. Famø municipality is the municipality (Danish, kommune) that covers the island.

The island of Fanø
A isl& is Sixteen kilometre yearn & Quintet kilometre wide, and these are placed upright off a coast from either a city of Esbjerg to which it is attached by ferry.

The kind of environments come to exist as noticed in Fanø. Non amazingly, the super most common 1 is sand. A island's totally american shore is processed higher of beaches, & a sea off a island's northwest prevent is too at home to the "Søren-Jessens-Sand", the huge sandbank. Fanø besides has heath and a little pine wood.

Fanø municipality
A municipality is inside Ribe County, and covers an vicinity of 56 km². It has the aggregate people of 3,151 (2005). Its city manager is Kjeld Nielsen, the member of the Conservative People's Party (Denmark) political party.

A independent town & a places of its municipal council is the town of Nordby. More towns include Sønderho, Fanø Vesterhavsbad & Rindby.

Neighboring municipalities on the Jutland peninsula, the Danish mainland, come Ribe, Bramming, and Esbjerg to the east, and Blåvandshuk to the north.

Fanø municipality may non exist as merged by using more municipalities by January 1, 2007 as the effect of countrywide Kommunalreformen ("The Municipality Reform" of 2007).

It has throughout history been attached to sea travel, however in todays world touristry is its independent industry. Holidaymaker attractions come primarily a beaches & a metropolitan area's nature and severity.