Denmark
Denmark (officially Kingdom of Denmark) is a country in Northern Europe, with its capital at Copenhagen, and is home to roughly 6.0M people.
Danish is the official language; the currency in circulation is Danish krone (kr); people from here are called Danish.
- »Denmark proper is small, but with Greenland the kingdom spans a vast area.
- »No point in Denmark is more than about 50 km from the sea.
Its territory comes in pieces: one mainland carrying 69% of the area, plus four further landmasses large enough to show up at map scale.
Denmark has exactly one neighbour: Germany to the south.
Copenhagen's name means 'merchants' harbour'. It has more bicycles than cars and the majority of residents commute by bike.
42,322 km² (16,341 sq mi), 131st largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Switzerland.
Population 5,976,992, 114th of 198 on file. That averages 141 per km² (366 per sq mi).
The Dannebrog is generally recognised as the oldest continuously used national flag. Legend has it falling from the sky during a battle in Estonia in 1219. Its off-centre cross became the template every Nordic flag follows.