ABOUT DENMARK

Denmark is situated in northern Europe and is a piece of Scandinavia. Denmark comprises of the Jutland landmass, the bigger islands of Zealand, Funen, and Lolland-Falster and 429 other named islands between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, 72 of which are occupied. 

No place in Denmark is more than 50 km from the ocean. What's more, only a couple of kilometers from Denmark's significant urban communities of Aarhus and Copenhagen you find unspoiled towns and immaculate forests and lakes.

Name: Denmark (the Kingdom of Denmark includes Greenland and the Faroe Islands)

Area: 43,075 km2

Time zone: CET (UTC+1)

Population: 5,6 mill (2011) 

Capital: Copenhagen (1.2 mill)

Major cities: Aarhus (440,000), Odense, Aalborg

Ethnicity: 90,1 pct indigenous Danes, 9,9 pct others (2010)

Language: Danish (English and German widely spoken)

Literacy: 99 %

Government: Parliamentary democracy

Entered the EU: 1973

Currency: Danish kroner (DKK) 

Gini index: (2009) 24.7 (world’s lowest inequality) 

Major exports:Electronics, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, foodstuff, furniture, fashion apparel, machinery and equipment, tourism, oil and gas

Electricity: 220V, European plug with two circular metal pins

Measure system:metric

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