Denmark 🇩🇰

Denmark is a country in Northern Europe, one of the 16 entries this site files under that subregion. Its full official name is Kingdom of Denmark. Government sits in Copenhagen.

It is home to roughly 6.0 million people, placing it 114th of 249 by population — between Singapore above it and Lebanon below. Measured only against its own subregion, it is 11th of 16 in size and 3rd in population.

It covers 43,094 km², which ranks it 134th of the 249 countries and territories in this dataset — just behind Estonia and just ahead of the Netherlands. For scale, it is almost exactly the same size as the Netherlands.

The coordinates the dataset gives are 56.0° N, 10.0° E, which puts it in the northern hemisphere, roughly 6,234 km from the equator, in what geographers would call high-latitude latitudes.

It borders 1 neighbour: Germany.

It has both a coastline and land borders, which is the most common arrangement of all.

Density comes out at around 139 people per square kilometre, which makes it more crowded than the typical entry on this list. For comparison, the median entry on this list sits near 91 per square kilometre.

The one official language is Danish. It shares that with the Faroe Islands.

People from Denmark are called Danish.

Against Europe as a whole it is the 22nd most populous of 53 entries, and it accounts for 5.5% of everyone living in Northern Europe.

Put next to every other entry on this site, Denmark ranks 134th of 249 by area and 114th by population. That works out at 0.029% of the combined land area of all 249 entries and 0.074% of their combined population. Those denominators matter: this list includes territories and dependencies as well as UN member states, so a rank here is not the same as a rank among sovereign countries.

For a sense of scale, the entries immediately either side of Denmark in the size ordering are Estonia at 45,227 km² and Netherlands at 41,850 km², against Denmark's 43,094 km². If you can already picture one of those, you can picture this one.

Density tells a different story from either raw figure. Denmark averages 139 people per square kilometre of total area, which makes it middling in density — 92nd of the 247 entries that have both a population and a measured area. Total area includes inland water, so the true figure for habitable land is higher than this.

Zoom in from the world to Northern Europe and Denmark sits 3rd of 16 by population and 11th by area. Its immediate company in that ordering is Sweden just above and Finland just below, which is a more honest comparison set than a global league table.

United Kingdom is the largest of the group by population, and every entry in Northern Europe has its own page here if you want to work through the whole neighbourhood rather than one country at a time.

• 🇸🇪 Sweden
• 🇫🇮 Finland
• 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

Denmark does not have the Danish krone to itself. It is one of 3 entries on this site that use the currency, whose code is DKK, and the others include listed below. A shared currency usually points at something real — a monetary union, a currency board, a former colonial administration, or a small economy pegging itself to a large neighbour's money — and it means a price quoted in DKK travels further than you might expect.

Language reaches wider still. Danish is listed for 2 entries here, Denmark among them, so a visitor who speaks it can be understood across a large part of the map. Shared language tends to outlive the empires, trade routes and migrations that spread it, which is why the linguistic map and the political one rarely line up.

It uses the Danish krone (kr, DKK). That currency appears nowhere else on this list.

The top-level domain is .dk. To phone it from abroad you dial +45. Its ISO codes are dk and DNK, which is what most databases and flag files use.

If a quiz asks for the capital of Denmark, the answer is Copenhagen.

It holds a seat at the United Nations, one of 192 entries here that do. The other 57 entries are territories, dependencies or observers, which is why totals on this site run to 249 rather than the familiar 195.