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Denmark

Denmark is the smallest of the in terms of landmass. Once the seat of Viking raiders and later a major north European naval power, the Kingdom of Denmark is the oldest kingdom in the world still in existence, but has evolved into a democratic, modern, and prosperous nation.
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is the capital city of Denmark and forms the moderate conurbation that one million Danes call home. It is big enough to form a small Danish metropolis, with shopping, culture and nightlife par excellence, yet small enough still to feel intimate and be safe.

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is the main city on the peninsula in Denmark. "City of Cafés" is a moniker the city wears with pride: its roster of coffeeshops exemplifies Aarhus' elegant mix of cosmopolitan city life and quaint small-town charm.

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is the largest city on the island of in Denmark. As Denmark's third-largest city, it offers the traveller a mixture of an exciting vibrant night-life, beautiful street-scapes, great shopping opportunities & a rich cultural heritage.

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forms the mainland part of Denmark. It is a large peninsula on the European continent that stretch northwards towards the even larger .

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is the largest island in Denmark, located between the Island of and the southern tip of . It is the seat of the capital and home to 2.3 million people.

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is Denmark's second largest island, between the peninsula, and the capital island of . The capital of the island is , birthplace of famous author H.C.

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is one of Denmark's archipelagos, named for its largest islands, and . The islands, just south of , are mostly rural, with some small towns.

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is Denmark's crown jewel. The "Pearl of the Baltic" has sandy beaches on the south of the island which are renowned for their Mediterranean light and feel.

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, the South Funen Archipelago, is composed of 55 islands and islets south of the Danish island of , at the mouth of the Baltic Sea. It has a bit more than 20,000 inhabitants.

Denmark

Latitude of center
55.99° or 55° 59′ 24″ north
Longitude of center
9.58° or 9° 34′ 48″ east
Population
5,480,000
Area
43,094 km² (16,639 miles²)
Elevation
50 metres (164 feet)
Capital
Currency
Krone (DKK)
Phone code
.dk
Internet domain
45
Open­Street­Map ID
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
2623032
Wiki­data ID
Q35
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Denmark” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Даниа”
  • Achinese: “Denmark”
  • Adyghe: “Дание”
  • Afrikaans: “Denemarke”
  • Akan: “Dɛnmak”
  • Albanian: “Danimarka”
  • Albanian: “Danimarkë”
  • Amharic: “ዴንማርክ”
  • Amis: “Denmark”
  • Angika: “डेनमार्क”
  • Arabic: “الدانمرك”
  • Arabic: “الدنمارك”
  • Aragonese: “Dinamarca”
  • Armenian: “Դանիա”
  • Arpitan: “Danemârc”
  • Assamese: “ডেনমাৰ্ক”
  • Asturian: “Dinamarca”
  • Asturian: “DK”
  • Asturian: “DNK”
  • Asturian: “Reinu de Dinamarca”
  • Atayal: “Denmark”
  • Avaric: “Дания”
  • Awadhi: “डेनमार्क”
  • Aymara: “Dinamarka”
  • Azerbaijani: “Danimark”
  • Azerbaijani: “Danimarka krallığı”
  • Azerbaijani: “Danimarka”
  • Balinese: “Denmark”
  • Balinese: “Dénmark”
  • Bambara: “Danemarki”
  • Bashkir: “Дания”
  • Basque: “Danimarka”
  • Batak Toba: “Denmark”
  • Bavarian: “Dänemark”
  • Belarusian: “Данія”
  • Bengali: “ডিকে”
  • Bengali: “ডেনমার্ক প্রপার”
  • Bengali: “ডেনমার্ক”
  • Bengali: “ডেন্মার্ক”
  • Bengali: “ড্যানমার্ক”
  • Bengali: “মেট্রোপলিটান ডেনমার্ক”
  • Betawi: “Dènemarken”
  • Bhojpuri: “डेनमार्क”
  • Bhojpuri: “डैनमार्क”
  • Bishnupriya: “ডেনমার্ক”
  • Bislama: “Denmak”
  • Bislama: “Denmark”
  • Bosnian: “Danska”
  • Breton: “Danmark”
  • Bulgarian: “Дания”
  • Bulgarian: “Кралство Дания”
  • Burmese: “ဒိန်းမတ်”
  • Burmese: “ဒိန်းမတ်နိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Danemarca”
  • Catalan: “Danimarca”
  • Catalan: “Dinamarca”
  • Cebuano: “Dinamarka”
  • Central Bikol: “Denmark”
  • Central Kanuri: “Denmark”
  • Central Kurdish: “دانمارک”
  • Central Kurdish: “دانیمارک”
  • Chamorro: “Denamarka”
  • Chavacano: “Dinamarca”
  • Chechen: “Дани”
  • Cherokee: “ᏕᏂᎹᎩ”
  • Cherokee: “ᏗᏂᎹᎦ”
  • Cheyenne: “Denmark”
  • Chinese: “Dānmài”
  • Chinese: “Tan-be̍h”
  • Chinese: “丹麥”
  • Chinese: “丹麦 / 丹麥”
  • Chinese: “丹麦”
  • Church Slavic: “Данїꙗ”
  • Chuvash: “Дани”
  • Cornish: “Danmark”
  • Corsican: “Danimarca”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Danimarka”
  • Croatian: “Danska”
  • Croatian: “Kraljevina Danska”
  • Czech: “Dánské království”
  • Czech: “Dánsko”
  • Dagbani: “Denmark”
  • Danish: “Danmark”
  • Danish: “dk”
  • Danish: “DK”
  • Danish: “Kongeriget Danmark”
  • Dhivehi: “ޑެންމާކު”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Danimarka”
  • Dotyali: “डेनमार्क”
  • Dutch: “Denemarcken” (historical)
  • Dutch: “Denemarken”
  • Dutch: “DK”
  • Dutch: “DNK”
  • Dzongkha: “ཌེན་མཱཀ་”
  • Dzongkha: “ཌེན་མཱཀ”
  • Eastern Mari: “Даний”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “دنمارك”
  • Erzya: “Дания Мастор”
  • Esperanto: “Danio”
  • Esperanto: “Danujo”
  • Estonian: “Taani”
  • Ewe: “Denmark nutome”
  • Ewe: “Denmark”
  • Extremaduran: “Dinamarca”
  • Faroese: “Danmark”
  • Faroese: “Danmørk”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Denmark”
  • Fijian: “Denimake”
  • Finnish: “Tanska”
  • French: “Dan.”
  • French: “Danemark métropolitain”
  • French: “Danemark propre”
  • French: “Danemark”
  • French: “DK”
  • Friulian: “Danimarcje”
  • Fulah: “Danemark”
  • Fulah: “Danmark”
  • Gagauz: “Daniya”
  • Galician: “Dinamarca”
  • Gan Chinese: “丹麥”
  • Ganda: “Denimaaka”
  • Ganda: “Denmarki”
  • Georgian: “დანია”
  • German: “Dänemark”
  • German: “DK”
  • German: “DNK”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Denmark”
  • Gilaki: “دانمارک”
  • Goan Konkani: “Denmark”
  • Goan Konkani: “डेन्मार्क”
  • Goan Konkani: “ಡೆನ್ಮಾರ್ಕ್”
  • Gothic: “𐌳𐌰𐌽𐌹𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌺𐌰”
  • Greek: “Δανία”
  • Greek: “Δανιμαρκία”
  • Guarani: “Ndinamáka”
  • Guarani: “Ndinamayka”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Dannmark”
  • Gujarati: “ડેનમાર્ક”
  • Gujarati: “ડેન્માર્ક”
  • Haitian: “Danmak”
  • Haitian: “Dannmak”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Tân-ma̍k”
  • Hausa: “Danmark”
  • Hausa: “Denmark”
  • Hawaiian: “Kenemaka”
  • Hebrew: “דנמרק”
  • Hindi: “डीके”
  • Hindi: “डेनमार्क”
  • Hungarian: “Dánia”
  • Iban: “Denmark”
  • Icelandic: “Danmörk”
  • Ido: “Dania”
  • Igbo: “Denmark”
  • Iloko: “Dinamarka”
  • Inari Sami: “Tanska”
  • Indonesian: “Denmark metropolitan”
  • Indonesian: “Denmark”
  • Interlingua: “Danmark”
  • Interlingue: “Dania”
  • Irish: “an Danmhairg”
  • Irish: “An Danmhairg”
  • Italian: “Danimarca”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Denmaak”
  • Japanese: “デンマーク”
  • Japanese: “デンマーク王国”
  • Javanese: “Dhènemarken”
  • Kabardian: “Даниэ”
  • Kabiyè: “Tanimarikɩ”
  • Kabuverdianu: “Dinamarka”
  • Kabyle: “Danmark”
  • Kabyle: “Danmaṛk”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Denmark”
  • Kalaallisut: “Danmarki”
  • Kalaallisut: “DK”
  • Kalaallisut: “DNK”
  • Kalaallisut: “Qallunaat Nunaat”
  • Kalmyk: “Данскгин Нутг”
  • Kalmyk: “Данскгин Нутуг”
  • Kannada: “ಡೆನ್ಮಾರ್ಕ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Daniya”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Дания”
  • Kashmiri: “Ḍēnamārka”
  • Kashmiri: “ڈینمارٕک”
  • Kashmiri: “ڈیٚنمارٛک”
  • Kashubian: “Dëńskô”
  • Kazakh: “Дания”
  • Khmer: “ដាណឺម៉ាក”
  • Kikuyu: “Denmaki”
  • Kikuyu: “Denmark”
  • Kikuyu: “Ndenimaki”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Danimarike”
  • Kirghiz: “Дания”
  • Kölsch: “Dänemark”
  • Komering: “Denmark”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Данмарк”
  • Komi: “Дания”
  • Kongo: “Danemark”
  • Korean: “단마르크”
  • Korean: “덴마크”
  • Kotava: “Danmarka”
  • Kurdish: “Danîmarka”
  • Ladin: “Danimarca”
  • Ladino: “Danimarka”
  • Lak: “Дания”
  • Lao: “Denmark”
  • Lao: “ດານມາກ”
  • Lao: “ເດນມາກ”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດດານມາກ”
  • Latgalian: “Daneja”
  • Latin: “Dania”
  • Latvian: “Dānija”
  • Lezghian: “Дания”
  • Ligurian: “Danemarca”
  • Ligurian: “Danemàrca”
  • Ligurian: “Danimàrca”
  • Limburgan: “Denemarke”
  • Lingala: “Danemark”
  • Lingala: “Danɛmarike”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Danmarc”
  • Literary Chinese: “丹麥”
  • Literary Chinese: “丹麥王國”
  • Lithuanian: “Danija”
  • Liv: “Dēņmō”
  • Livvi: “Danii”
  • Lojban: “danmark”
  • Lombard: “Danimarca”
  • Low German: “Däänmark”
  • Low German: “Deanemaarkn”
  • Low German: “Deanemoarken”
  • Low German: “Deanemoarkn”
  • Low German: “Denemaarken”
  • Low German: “Denemarken”
  • Low German: “Denemoarken”
  • Low German: “Denemoarkn”
  • Low German: “Denmaark”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Dańska”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Danemalaku”
  • Lule Sami: “Danmárkka”
  • Lule Sami: “Danmárkko”
  • Luxembourgish: “Dänemark”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Danimarca”
  • Macedonian: “Данска”
  • Madurese: “Denmark”
  • Maithili: “डेनमार्क”
  • Malagasy: “Danemarka”
  • Malagasy: “Danmarka”
  • Malay: “Denmark”
  • Malay: “دينمرک”
  • Malayalam: “ഡെന്മാർക്ക്”
  • Malayalam: “ഡെൻമാർക്ക്”
  • Maltese: “Danimarka”
  • Maltese: “id-Danimarka”
  • Maltese: “Renju tad-Danimarka”
  • Manipuri: “ꯗꯦꯟꯃꯥꯔꯛ”
  • Manx: “dk”
  • Manx: “DK”
  • Manx: “y Danvarg”
  • Manx: “Yn Danvarg”
  • Maori: “Tenemāka”
  • Marathi: “डेन्मार्क”
  • Mazanderani: “دانمارک”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Dăng-măh”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Danmark”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tan-be̍h”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tan-kok”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Teng-boat-kok”
  • Minangkabau: “Denmark”
  • Mingrelian: “დანია”
  • Mirandese: “Dinamarca”
  • Moksha: “Данмастор”
  • Mon: “ဒိန်မက်”
  • Mon: “ဒေန်မက်”
  • Mongolian: “Дани”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “الدانمارك”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “دانمارك”
  • Narom: “Dannemar”
  • Nauru: “Denemark”
  • Navajo: “Chʼah Bideeʼí Dineʼé Bikéyah Yázhí”
  • Neapolitan: “Danemarca”
  • Nepali: “डेनमार्क”
  • Nepali: “डेन्मार्क”
  • Newari: “डेनमार्क”
  • North Ndebele: “Denmakhi”
  • Northern Frisian: “Dånmark”
  • Northern Frisian: “Denemark”
  • Northern Luri: “دانمارک”
  • Northern Sami: “Dánmárku”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Danmark”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Danmark”
  • Norwegian: “Danmark”
  • Novial: “Dania”
  • Obolo: “Denimàk”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Danemarc”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܕܐܢܡܐܪܩ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Denemearc”
  • Oriya: “ଡେନମାର୍କ”
  • Oromo: “Deenmaark”
  • Ossetian: “Дани”
  • Pali: “डेनमार्क”
  • Pampanga: “Danmark”
  • Pampanga: “Denmark”
  • Pampanga: “Dinamarca”
  • Pampanga: “Dinamarka”
  • Pangasinan: “Dinamarka”
  • Panjabi: “ਡੈਨਮਾਰਕ”
  • Panjabi: “ਡੈੱਨਮਾਰਕ”
  • Papiamento: “Dinamarka”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Denemarrick”
  • Persian: “دانمارک”
  • Picard: “Danemark”
  • Piemontese: “Danimarca”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Denmark”
  • Pite Sami: “Dánmárrka”
  • Polish: “Dania”
  • Pontic: “Δανία”
  • Portuguese: “Dinamarca”
  • Prussian: “Dānanmarki”
  • Pushto: “ډنمارک”
  • Pushto: “ډېنمارک”
  • Quechua: “Danmarka”
  • Quechua: “Dansuyu”
  • Quechua: “Dinamarca”
  • Quechua: “Thanispampa”
  • Romanian: “Danemarca”
  • Romansh: “Danemarc”
  • Rundi: “Danemark”
  • Rundi: “Danemarke”
  • Rundi: “Danimariki”
  • Russia Buriat: “Дани”
  • Russian: “Дания”
  • Rusyn: “Даньско”
  • Sakizaya: “Denmark”
  • Samoan: “Tenimaka”
  • Samogitian: “Danėjė”
  • Sango: “Danemêrke”
  • Sanskrit: “डेनमार्क”
  • Santali: “ᱢᱮᱴᱨᱳᱯᱚᱞᱤᱴᱟᱱ ᱰᱮᱱᱢᱟᱨᱠ”
  • Santali: “ᱰᱤ.ᱠᱮ.”
  • Santali: “ᱰᱮᱱᱢᱟᱨᱠ ᱯᱨᱚᱯᱟᱨ”
  • Santali: “ᱰᱮᱱᱢᱟᱨᱠ”
  • Saraiki: “ڈنمارک”
  • Sardinian: “Danimarca”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Deenemäärk”
  • Scots: “Denmark”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “An Danmhairg”
  • Serbian: “Danska”
  • Serbian: “Данска”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Danska”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းတႅၼ်းမၢၵ်ႈ”
  • Shona: “Denmark”
  • Shona: “Dhanemaki”
  • Sicilian: “Danimarca”
  • Silesian: “Dańijo”
  • Sindhi: “ڊينمارڪ”
  • Sinhala: “ඩෙන්මාර්කය”
  • Skolt Sami: “Danska”
  • Skolt Sami: “Tanska”
  • Slovak: “Dánske kráľovstvo”
  • Slovak: “Dánsko”
  • Slovenian: “Danska”
  • Somali: “Denimarki”
  • Somali: “Denmark”
  • South Azerbaijani: “دانمارک”
  • Southern Sami: “Danmaarke”
  • Southern Sotho: “Denmark”
  • Spanish: “Dinamarca”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Danskmakondre”
  • Sundanese: “Dénmark”
  • Swahili: “Denmaki”
  • Swahili: “Denmark”
  • Swahili: “Udeni”
  • Swati: “IDenimakhi”
  • Swedish: “Danmark”
  • Swedish: “DK”
  • Swiss German: “Dänemark”
  • Sylheti: “ꠒꠦꠘꠝꠣꠇ”
  • Tachelhit: “Danmark”
  • Tagalog: “Dinamarka”
  • Tajik: “Дания”
  • Tajik: “Донморк”
  • Talysh: “Danimarkə”
  • Tamil: “டெண்மார்க்”
  • Tamil: “டென்மார்க்”
  • Tamil: “டென்மார்க்கு”
  • Tamil: “தென்மார்க்கு இராச்சியம்”
  • Tamil: “தென்மார்க்கு”
  • Taroko: “Denmark”
  • Tatar: “Дания”
  • Telugu: “డెన్మార్క్”
  • Tetum: “Dinamarka”
  • Thai: “Denmark”
  • Thai: “เดนมาร์ก”
  • Thai: “เดนมาร์ค”
  • Thai: “ประเทศเดนมาร์ก”
  • Tibetan: “ཌེན་མཱརྐ།”
  • Tibetan: “དན་མྲག”
  • Tigrinya: “ዴንማርክ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Denmak”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Tenimaʻake”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Dänemark”
  • Tsonga: “Denmark”
  • Tumbuka: “Denmark”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “الدنمارك”
  • Turkish: “Danimarka Krallığı”
  • Turkish: “Danimarka”
  • Turkmen: “Daniýa”
  • Tuvinian: “Дания”
  • Twi: “Denmark”
  • Twi: “Dεnmaak”
  • Tyap: “Da̱mmak”
  • Udmurt: “Дания”
  • Uighur: “دانىيە”
  • Ukrainian: “Данія”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Danska”
  • Urdu: “ڈنمارک”
  • Uzbek: “Daniya”
  • Venetian: “Danemarca”
  • Venetian: “Danimarca”
  • Venetian: “Dinamarca”
  • Veps: “Danii”
  • Vietnamese: “Đan Mạch”
  • Vlaams: “Denemarkn”
  • Vlax Romani: “Danemarka”
  • Volapük: “Danän”
  • Võro: “Taani”
  • Walloon: “Daenmåtche”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Dinamarka”
  • Welsh: “Denmarc”
  • Western Armenian: “Դանիա”
  • Western Balochi: “ڈینمارک”
  • Western Frisian: “Denemark”
  • Western Frisian: “Denemarken”
  • Western Panjabi: “ڈنمارک”
  • Wolof: “Danmaark”
  • Wolof: “Danmàrk”
  • Wu Chinese: “丹麦”
  • Xhosa: “Dominikha”
  • Yakut: “Дания”
  • Yiddish: “דענמארק”
  • Yiddish: “דענמאַרק”
  • Yoruba: “Dẹ́mákì”
  • Yoruba: “Dẹ́nmárkì”
  • Yue Chinese: “Denmark”
  • Yue Chinese: “丹麥”
  • Yue Chinese: “丹麥王國”
  • Yue Chinese: “丹墨”
  • Zeeuws: “Denemarken”
  • Zhuang: “Danhmai”
  • Zulu: “i-Denmark”
  • Zulu: “IDenimaki”
  • “Danėjė”
  • “Danemarche”
  • “Danimarca”
  • “Danimàrca”
  • “DEK”
  • “DEN”
  • “Denmark”
  • “Dinamarca”
  • “DK”
  • “DNK”
  • “ma Tansi”
  • “Taani”
  • “डेनमार्क”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Denmark”. Photo: Per Palmkvist Knudsen, CC BY-SA 2.5.