And who are the Rotten Bananas? This is a recent media term used to describe a great, crescent-shaped swathe of the country that is plagued by high unemployment, low wages, crumbling infrastructure, poor health care, and underperforming schools. It runs from northern Jutland south along the west coast, before curving east across the island of Funen and ending with the southern islands of Lolland and Falster. Also referred to as udkantsdanmark (“outlying,” or “peripheral” Denmark; the hinterland), the Banana is mostly rural and actually encompasses the majority of Denmark’s landmass, bar its
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