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DENMARK
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Location:
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Northern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, on a peninsula north of Germany (Jutland); also includes two major islands (Sjaelland and Fyn) |
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Geographic coordinates:
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56 00 N, 10 00 E |
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Area:
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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 |
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Area - comparative:
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slightly less than twice the size of Massachusetts |
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Land boundaries:
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total: 68 km
border countries: Germany 68 km |
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Coastline:
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7,314 km |
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Maritime claims:
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territorial sea: 12 nm
contiguous zone: 24 nm
exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
continental shelf: 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation |
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Climate:
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temperate; humid and overcast; mild, windy winters and cool summers |
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Terrain:
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low and flat to gently rolling plains |
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Elevation extremes:
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lowest point: Lammefjord -7 m
highest point: Yding Skovhoej 173 m |
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Natural resources:
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petroleum, natural gas, fish, salt, limestone, chalk, stone, gravel and sand |
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Land use:
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arable land: 52.59%
permanent crops: 0.19%
other: 47.22% (2005) |
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Irrigated land:
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4,490 sq km (2003) |
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Total renewable water resources:
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6.1 cu km (2003) |
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Freshwater withdrawal (domestic/industrial/agricultural):
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total: 0.67 cu km/yr (32%/26%/42%)
per capita: 123 cu m/yr (2002) |
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Natural hazards:
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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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Environment - current issues:
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air pollution, principally from vehicle and power plant emissions; nitrogen and phosphorus pollution of the North Sea; drinking and surface water becoming polluted from animal wastes and pesticides |
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Environment - international agreements:
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party to: Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Persistent Organic Pollutants, Air Pollution-Sulfur 85, Air Pollution-Sulfur 94, Air Pollution-Volatile Organic Compounds, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Marine Life Conservation, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, Whaling
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements |
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Population:
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5,484,723 (July 2008 est.) |
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Age structure:
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0-14 years: 18.4% (male 516,735/female 490,532)
15-64 years: 65.9% (male 1,818,681/female 1,796,753)
65 years and over: 15.7% (male 374,388/female 487,634) (2008 est.) |
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Nationality:
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noun: Dane(s)
adjective: Danish |
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Ethnic groups:
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Scandinavian, Inuit, Faroese, German, Turkish, Iranian, Somali |
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Religions:
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Evangelical Lutheran 95%, other Christian (includes Protestant and Roman Catholic) 3%, Muslim 2% |
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Languages:
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Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic (an Inuit dialect), German (small minority)
note: English is the predominant second language |
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Literacy:
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definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 99%
male: 99%
female: 99% (2003 est.) |
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Country name:
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conventional long form: Kingdom of Denmark
conventional short form: Denmark
local long form: Kongeriget Danmark
local short form: Danmark |
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Government type:
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constitutional monarchy |
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Capital:
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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
note: applies to continental Denmark only, not to the North Atlantic components |
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Administrative divisions:
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metropolitan Denmark - 5 regions (regioner, singular - region); Hovedstaden, Midtjylland, Nordjylland, Sjaelland, Syddanmark
note: an extensive local government reform merged 271 municipalities into 98 and 13 counties into five regions, effective 1 January 2007 |
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Independence:
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first organized as a unified state in 10th century; in 1849 became a constitutional monarchy |
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National holiday:
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none designated; Constitution Day, 5 June (1849) is generally viewed as the National Day
Source: http://cia.gov
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