Denmark Europe
PeoplePopulation: 5,4 million (July 2004 est.). About one-quarter of the population lives in greater Copenhagen. Population growth rate: 0.35 % (2004 est.).Life expectancy at birth: 77.4 years. Religions: Evangelical Lutheran 95%, other Protestant and Roman Catholic 3%, Muslim 2%. Ethnic groups: Scandinavian, Inuit, Faroese, German, Turkish, Iranian, Somali. Language: Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic (an Inuit dialect), German (small minority). English is the predominant second language . Nationality: noun: Dane(s). Adjective: Danish. |
PeoplePopulation: 5,4 million (July 2004 est.). About one-quarter of the population lives in greater Copenhagen. Population growth rate: 0.35 % (2004 est.).Life expectancy at birth: 77.4 years. Religions: Evangelical Lutheran 95%, other Protestant and Roman Catholic 3%, Muslim 2%. Ethnic groups: Scandinavian, Inuit, Faroese, German, Turkish, Iranian, Somali. Language: Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic (an Inuit dialect), German (small minority). English is the predominant second language . Nationality: noun: Dane(s). Adjective: Danish. |
PeoplePopulation: 5,4 million (July 2004 est.). About one-quarter of the population lives in greater Copenhagen. Population growth rate: 0.35 % (2004 est.).Life expectancy at birth: 77.4 years. Religions: Evangelical Lutheran 95%, other Protestant and Roman Catholic 3%, Muslim 2%. Ethnic groups: Scandinavian, Inuit, Faroese, German, Turkish, Iranian, Somali. Language: Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic (an Inuit dialect), German (small minority). English is the predominant second language . Nationality: noun: Dane(s). Adjective: Danish. |
PeoplePopulation: 5,4 million (July 2004 est.). About one-quarter of the population lives in greater Copenhagen. Population growth rate: 0.35 % (2004 est.).Life expectancy at birth: 77.4 years. Religions: Evangelical Lutheran 95%, other Protestant and Roman Catholic 3%, Muslim 2%. Ethnic groups: Scandinavian, Inuit, Faroese, German, Turkish, Iranian, Somali. Language: Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic (an Inuit dialect), German (small minority). English is the predominant second language . Nationality: noun: Dane(s). Adjective: Danish. |
EconomyThis thoroughly modern market economy features high-tech agriculture, up-to-date small-scale and corporate industry, extensive government welfare measures, comfortable living standards, a stable currency, and high dependence on foreign trade. Denmark is a net exporter of food and energy and enjoys a comfortable balance of payments surplus. Government objectives include streamlining the bureaucracy and further privatization of state assets. The government has been successful in meeting, and even exceeding, the economic convergence criteria for participating in the third phase (a common European currency) of the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), but Denmark has decided not to join 12 other EU members in the euro; even so, the Danish Krone remains pegged to the euro. Given the sluggish state of the European economy, growth in 2003 was a mere 0.3%. Currency: Danish krone (DKK). Danish kroner / US dollar = 6.59 (2003). GDP (purchasing power parity): US$ 167.7 billion (2003 est.). GDP per capita (purchasing power parity): US$ 31,200 (2003 est.). |
EconomyThis thoroughly modern market economy features high-tech agriculture, up-to-date small-scale and corporate industry, extensive government welfare measures, comfortable living standards, a stable currency, and high dependence on foreign trade. Denmark is a net exporter of food and energy and enjoys a comfortable balance of payments surplus. Government objectives include streamlining the bureaucracy and further privatization of state assets. The government has been successful in meeting, and even exceeding, the economic convergence criteria for participating in the third phase (a common European currency) of the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), but Denmark has decided not to join 12 other EU members in the euro; even so, the Danish Krone remains pegged to the euro. Given the sluggish state of the European economy, growth in 2003 was a mere 0.3%. Currency: Danish krone (DKK). Danish kroner / US dollar = 6.59 (2003). GDP (purchasing power parity): US$ 167.7 billion (2003 est.). GDP per capita (purchasing power parity): US$ 31,200 (2003 est.). |
EconomyThis thoroughly modern market economy features high-tech agriculture, up-to-date small-scale and corporate industry, extensive government welfare measures, comfortable living standards, a stable currency, and high dependence on foreign trade. Denmark is a net exporter of food and energy and enjoys a comfortable balance of payments surplus. Government objectives include streamlining the bureaucracy and further privatization of state assets. The government has been successful in meeting, and even exceeding, the economic convergence criteria for participating in the third phase (a common European currency) of the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), but Denmark has decided not to join 12 other EU members in the euro; even so, the Danish Krone remains pegged to the euro. Given the sluggish state of the European economy, growth in 2003 was a mere 0.3%. Currency: Danish krone (DKK). Danish kroner / US dollar = 6.59 (2003). GDP (purchasing power parity): US$ 167.7 billion (2003 est.). GDP per capita (purchasing power parity): US$ 31,200 (2003 est.). |
EconomyThis thoroughly modern market economy features high-tech agriculture, up-to-date small-scale and corporate industry, extensive government welfare measures, comfortable living standards, a stable currency, and high dependence on foreign trade. Denmark is a net exporter of food and energy and enjoys a comfortable balance of payments surplus. Government objectives include streamlining the bureaucracy and further privatization of state assets. The government has been successful in meeting, and even exceeding, the economic convergence criteria for participating in the third phase (a common European currency) of the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), but Denmark has decided not to join 12 other EU members in the euro; even so, the Danish Krone remains pegged to the euro. Given the sluggish state of the European economy, growth in 2003 was a mere 0.3%. Currency: Danish krone (DKK). Danish kroner / US dollar = 6.59 (2003). GDP (purchasing power parity): US$ 167.7 billion (2003 est.). GDP per capita (purchasing power parity): US$ 31,200 (2003 est.). |
EconomyThis thoroughly modern market economy features high-tech agriculture, up-to-date small-scale and corporate industry, extensive government welfare measures, comfortable living standards, a stable currency, and high dependence on foreign trade. Denmark is a net exporter of food and energy and enjoys a comfortable balance of payments surplus. Government objectives include streamlining the bureaucracy and further privatization of state assets. The government has been successful in meeting, and even exceeding, the economic convergence criteria for participating in the third phase (a common European currency) of the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), but Denmark has decided not to join 12 other EU members in the euro; even so, the Danish Krone remains pegged to the euro. Given the sluggish state of the European economy, growth in 2003 was a mere 0.3%. Currency: Danish krone (DKK). Danish kroner / US dollar = 6.59 (2003). GDP (purchasing power parity): US$ 167.7 billion (2003 est.). GDP per capita (purchasing power parity): US$ 31,200 (2003 est.). |
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Country name: Kingdom of Denmark (local: Kongeriget Danmark). Capital: Copenhagen. Government type: Constitutional monarchy . Total area: 43,094 km². It includes the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea and the rest of metropolitan Denmark (the Jutland Peninsula, and the major islands of Sjaelland and Fyn), but excludes the Faroe Islands and Greenland. Coastline: 7,314 km. Highest point: Yding Skovhoej 173 m. Climate: Temperate; humid and overcast; mild, windy winters and cool summers . Administrative divisions: metropolitan Denmark - 14 counties (amter, singular - amt) and 2 boroughs (amtskommuner, singular - amtskomunes); Arhus, Bornholm, Fredericksberg, Frederiksborg, Fyn, Kobenhavn, Kobenhavns, Nordjylland, Ribe, Ringkobing, Roskilde, Sonderjylland, Storstrom, Vejle, Vestsjalland, Viborg note: see separate entries for the Faroe Islands and Greenland, which are part of the Kingdom of Denmark and are self-governing overseas administrative divisions. Terrain: low and flat to gently rolling plains. Ports and harbors: Aabenraa, Aalborg, Aarhus, Copenhagen, Esbjerg, Fredericia, Frederikshavn, Hirtshals, Kolding, Odense, Roenne (Bornholm), Vejle. Note: Denmark controls Danish Straits (Skagerrak and Kattegat) linking Baltic and North Seas. |
Fredericksborg Castle, in Hillerød, Denmark. Built on three small islands in the 17th century, in Dutch Renaissance style. Today it is the national portrait gallery, with paintings of the royal family members, since the 16th.
Kronborg Castle, in Elsinore, Denmark. It is a renaissance castle and a military fortress, known all over the world from Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Copenhagen, Denmark.
PeoplePopulation: 5.4 million (July 2004 est.). About one-quarter of the population lives in greater Copenhagen. Population growth rate: 0.35 % (2004 est.).Life expectancy at birth: 77.4 years. Religions: Evangelical Lutheran 95%, other Protestant and Roman Catholic 3%, Muslim 2%. Ethnic groups: Scandinavian, Inuit, Faroese, German, Turkish, Iranian, Somali. Language: Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic (an Inuit dialect), German (small minority). English is the predominant second language . Nationality: noun: Dane(s). Adjective: Danish. |
Once the seat of Viking raiders and later a major north European power, Denmark has evolved into a modern, prosperous nation that is participating in the general political and economic integration of Europe.
First organized as a unified state in 10th century. In 1849 became a constitutional monarchy.
It joined NATO in 1949 and the EEC (now the EU) in 1973. However, the country has opted out of certain elements of the European Union's Maastricht Treaty, including the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and issues concerning certain justice and home affairs.
Flooding is a threat in some areas of the country (e.g., parts of Jutland, along the southern coast of the island of Lolland) that are protected from the sea by a system of dikes.
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