DK

DK | Denmark

Denmark, officially the Kingdom of Denmark, is a democratic sovereign state in Northern Europe, located south-west of Sweden, south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. The Kingdom has two autonomous constituent countries in the north Atlantic Ocean, the Faroe Islands and Greenland.

 

Denmark consists of a peninsula, Jutland, and the Danish archipelago of 407 islands, of which around 70 are inhabited, are characterised by flat, arable land and sandy coasts with little elevation and a temperate climate. The national language, Danish, is closely related to Swedish and Norwegian.

Facts and Statistics

Population

5,627,235 (2014)

 

Area

42,916 square kilometres

 

Population density

130.50 per square kilometre

 

Geographic region

Scandinavia

 

Capital

Copenhagen

1,246,611 (2014)

Other major cities

Aarhus

Odense

Aalborg

259.754

172.512

109.092

Form of state

Monarchy

 

Head of state

Queen Margrethe II

 

Language

Danish

 

Currency

DKK 1 Krone = 100 Øre

DKK 7.46=Euro(€)1, 2015

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