JUTLAND, a peninsula of Denmark, anciently called the Cimbrian Chersonese, situated between 8° and 11° of E. long. and between 55° and 58° of N. lat. bounded by the Categate sea, which separates it from Norway, on the north; by the same sea, which divides it from the Danish islands and Sweden, on the east; by Holstein, on the south; and by the German ocean, on the west. It is divided into north and south Jutland; the south being usually called Sleswic. The whole is about 180 miles in length, and 90 in breadth.