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Practice Denmark

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Denmark

DK / DNK   56.0°, 10.0°

Denmark is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It is the metropole and most populous constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark, also known as the Danish Realm, a constitutionally unitary state that includes the autonomous territories of the Faroe Islands and Greenland in the north Atlantic Ocean. Metropolitan Denmark, also called "continental Denmark" or "Denmark proper", consists of the northern Jutland peninsula and an archipelago of 406 islands. It is the southernmost of the Scandinavian countries, lying southwest of Sweden, south of Norway, and north of Germany, with which it shares a short border. Metropolitan Denmark is situated between the North Sea to the west and the Baltic Sea to the east.

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People are called
Danish
Driving side
Right
Calling code
+45
Capital
Copenhagen
Population
5,822,863
Area
42,925 km2
Climate
Temperate
Government
Parliamentary constitutional monarchy
Currency
Danish krone
Languages
Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic
Sells
packaged medicine, fish, vaccines, refined petroleum
Sells to
Germany 13%, USA 10%, Sweden 9%
Land borders
1: Germany
Drives on the
right
Calling code
+45
Founded
800
Hemisphere
Northern

WHAT PEOPLE ARE CALLED

Danish

These are English demonyms for people from Denmark. A demonym describes a connection to a place; it does not mean everyone shares an ethnicity, language or religion.

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SAME LAND, DIFFERENT WORLDS

Civilizations, flags & standards

Modern borders are a starting point for exploring the past. These cultures and states occupied some of the same land; they were not the same country. Dates describe each civilization or state as a whole, not continuous rule over every place listed.

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Turning points

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Religion: state & society

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Where it is

Languages

Share of the population that speaks each. Click one to see every country that speaks it.

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Largest cities

Copenhagen  capital 1,153,615
Århus 285,273
Odense 180,863
Aalborg 142,937
Frederiksberg 95,029

Form of government

Parliamentary constitutional monarchy.

Climate and geography

temperate; humid and overcast; mild, windy winters and cool summers

Climate zone

Highest point

Northern hemisphere.

Land borders (1)

Figures from its history

Harald Bluetooth
Harald Bluetooth Viking king who Christianised Denmark Harald "Bluetooth" Gormsson was a king of Denmark and Norway.
Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen Writer of fairy tales Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish writer. A prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is also best remembered for his literary fairy tales.
Niels Bohr
Niels Bohr Physicist Niels Henrik David Bohr was a Danish theoretical physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.

Checked facts

Most of this page is imported in bulk and carries no source of its own. These entries were checked by hand against the source named, and are reapplied after every dataset rebuild so a refetch cannot quietly put the old value back.

  • Member of european union — Full member states only, as the organisation itself lists them.
    The imported member_of list is out of date for this organisation and is not asked about.
    Source · true as of 2026-09-11 · checked 2026-09-11
  • Member of nato — Full member states only, as the organisation itself lists them.
    The imported member_of list is out of date for this organisation and is not asked about.
    Source · true as of 2026-09-11 · checked 2026-09-11

Corrected in an AI-assisted review of the imported data (2026-09-22), not yet checked against a named source: founded, past leaders.