About Denmark
Name: Denmark (the Kingdom of Denmark includes Greenland and the Faroe Islands)
Location: Scandinavia / Europe
Area: 43,075 km2 / 16,641 sq. miles
Capital: Copenhagen (1.2 million inhabitants in Greater Copenhagen)
Major cities: Aarhus (250,000 inhabitants), Odense, Aalborg
Time zone: CET (UTC+1)
Population: 5,6 mill (2011)^
Ethnicity: 90,1 % indigenous Danes, 9,9 % others (2010)
Language: Danish (English and German widely spoken)
Literacy: 99 %
Government: Parliamentary democracy / constitutional monarchy
Entered the EU: 1973
Currency: Danish kroner (DKK)
Gini index: (2009) 24.7 (world’s lowest inequality)
Major exports: Electrical equipment, machinery, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, foodstuff, oil and gas
Denmark is located in northern Europe and is part of Scandinavia. Denmark consists of the Jutland peninsula, the larger islands of Zealand, Funen, and Lolland-Falster and 429 other named islands between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, 72 of which are inhabited.
Nowhere in Denmark is more than 50 km from the sea. And just a few kilometres from Denmark’s major cities of Aarhus and Copenhagen you find idyllic villages and pristine woodlands and lakes.
Gateway to Europe
Denmark's location makes it a gateway to other Scandinavian countries and the rest of Europe. Berlin is just an hour’s flight away. London and Paris can be reached in less than two hours. And Barcelona, Rome, Vienna and Prague are all just a few hours flight away.
- News
- Denmark tops global ranking for higher education May 18, 2012
- Denmark increasingly popular among foreign academics May 16, 2012
- HRH Prince Joachim took international students for an electrical spin May 15, 2012
- New wind tunnel to boost Danish wind energy research May 15, 2012
- International students appointed Goodwill Ambassadors to Denmark May 11, 2012