If you take the first three letters from SWEDEN and the three first letters from DENMARK you get SWE-DEN. The removed letters are DEN-MARK. What other countries can you think of, whose names can be interlaced like this? As a hint, the initial letter of the first country name, and the number of letters in the second country name have been given.
Includes one dependency of another country, marked with an *.
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Is that a country?