Denmark's Ministry of the Environment has created a full-scale model of the country in Minecraft for players to explore.

The downloadable model consists of 4,000 billion blocks and requires one terabyte of storage space.

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Denmark's topographical information was used to recreate the country in its full size, meaning the creation is geographically accurate. As well as having the urban and rural areas, the map also features some of Denmarks most infamous landmarks, including Tivoli Gardens, Rosenborg Castle and Amalienborg.

The 256-block height limit did not hinder construction of the 43,000-square-kilometre country, as Denmark's highest mountain is only 170m above sea level.

Simon Kokkendorf and Thorbjørn Nielsen, of the Danish Geodata Agency, are responsible for translating the geographical data into Minecraft.

Because of the map's large size, the ministry broke down the full country into three sections - North, South and Eastern Islands - which each have their own server.

The ministry said: "All of Denmark is now a virtual world in the ratio 1:1 inside Minecraft - thus you can freely move around in Denmark, find your own residential area, to build and tear down as you can in whichever any other Minecraft world."

Although the use of TNT has been banned, the world is otherwise completely customisable.

While the game was made available to everyone, the ministry is encouraging its use in schools to teach everything from urban planning to environmental policy.

Minecraft will make its Xbox One, PS4 and Vita debuts this spring.

The Simpsons recently parodied Minecraft in its couch gag. Watch the clip below: