The Kingdom of Denmark, with an area of 16,639 square miles, consists of the Jutland Peninsula and roughly 500 islands. It is also a part of the generally fertile and mostly agricultural region known as the North European Plain. This entire region is generally flat to slightly rolling and is overlain with deposits of Pleistocene glaciers. (The Pleistocene lasted from 1.8 million to 11,000 years ago, during which time several ice ages occurred.
Country name: Kingdom of Denmark (local: Kongeriget Danmark).
Capital: Copenhagen.
Government type: Constitutional monarchy .
Total area: 43,094 km². It 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.
Coastline: 7,314 km.
Highest point: Yding Skovhoej 173 m.
Climate: Temperate; humid and overcast; mild, windy winters and cool summers .
Administrative divisions: metropolitan Denmark - 14 counties (amter, singular - amt) and 2 boroughs (amtskommuner, singular - amtskomunes); Arhus, Bornholm, Fredericksberg, Frederiksborg, Fyn, Kobenhavn, Kobenhavns, Nordjylland, Ribe, Ringkobing, Roskilde, Sonderjylland, Storstrom, Vejle, Vestsjalland, Viborg note: see separate entries for the Faroe Islands and Greenland, which are part of the Kingdom of Denmark and are self-governing overseas administrative divisions.
Terrain: low and flat to gently rolling plains.
Ports and harbors: Aabenraa, Aalborg, Aarhus, Copenhagen, Esbjerg, Fredericia, Frederikshavn, Hirtshals, Kolding, Odense, Roenne (Bornholm), Vejle.
Note: Denmark controls Danish Straits (Skagerrak and Kattegat) linking Baltic and North Seas.
People
Population: 5,4 million (July 2004 est.). About one-quarter of the population lives in greater Copenhagen.
Population growth rate: 0.35 % (2004 est.).
Life expectancy at birth: 77.4 years.
Religions: Evangelical Lutheran 95%, other Protestant and Roman Catholic 3%, Muslim 2%.
Ethnic groups: Scandinavian, Inuit, Faroese, German, Turkish, Iranian, Somali.
Language: Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic (an Inuit dialect), German (small minority). English is the predominant second language .
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