 Denmark
Facts and Figures
Source: CIA World Factbook |
| Coordinates |
56 00 N, 10 00 E |
| Area |
total: 43,094 sq km land: 42,394 sq km water: 700 sq km note: 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 |
| Climate |
temperate; humid and overcast; mild, windy winters and cool summers |
| Terrain |
low and flat to gently rolling plains |
| Population |
5,468,120 (July 2007 est.) |
| Languages |
Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic (an Inuit dialect), German (small minority) note: English is the predominant second language |
| Imports |
machinery and equipment, raw materials and semimanufactures for industry, chemicals, grain and foodstuffs, consumer goods |
| Exports |
machinery and instruments, meat and meat products, dairy products, fish, pharmaceuticals, furniture, windmills |
| Hazards |
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 |
| Resources |
petroleum, natural gas, fish, salt, limestone, chalk, stone, gravel and sand |
| Geography |
controls Danish Straits (Skagerrak and Kattegat) linking Baltic and North Seas; about one-quarter of the population lives in greater Copenhagen |
| Nationality |
noun: Dane(s) adjective: Danish |
| Capital |
name: Copenhagen geographic coordinates: 55 40 N, 12 35 E time difference: UTC+1 (6 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time) daylight saving time: +1hr, begins last Sunday in March; ends last Sunday in October |
| Internet Country Code |
.dk |
| Internet Users |
3.763 million (2005) |
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