Counts about 400 islands and, with Greenland and the Faroes, spans from the North Sea to the Arctic.
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Denmark
Kingdom of Denmark · Danmark
Europe
· Northern Europe
0Population
43.09Kkm² of land
$60.17KGDP / person
KøbenhavnCapital
- ISO codes
- DK · DNK
- Density
- 135 /km²
- Languages
- Danish
- Currency
- Danish krone (DKK)
- Dial code
- +45
- Internet domain
- .dk
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 55.9670° N, 9.0180° E
- Demonym
- Danish
- UN region
- Northern Europe
- Economy
- Developed region: nonG7
- Income group
- High income: OECD
- Total GDP
- $350.1B
- Sovereignty
- Independent · UN member
- Borders
- 1
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By the numbers
How Denmark stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
115th
of 242 · 0.08% of world population
Land area
133rd
of 242 · 0.03% of world land
GDP per person
19th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
84th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Denmark
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 5,818,553 people, the 115th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 1,319 of everyone alive.
Covers 43,094 km², making it the 133rd largest country here - about 4.7 times the size of Cyprus.
Population density is about 135 people per km².
The capital is København, at 55.68° N, 12.56° E, with a metropolitan population of about 1,085,000.
Shares land borders with 1 country: Germany.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Europe/Copenhagen.
The currency is the Danish krone (DKK, symbol kr).
The official language is Danish.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Europe/Copenhagen
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UTC+02:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
★ København
Hovedstaden
55.6805° N, 12.5615° E
1.09M
Land neighbours
1 country shares a border with Denmark.