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The Denmark–Germany border (Danish: Grænsen mellem Danmark og Tyskland; German: Grenze zwischen Dänemark und Deutschland) is a land and maritime border between the modern countries of Denmark and Germany. It includes Denmark's only land border, which is 68 kilometres (42 mi) long.
The 1920 border between Denmark and Germany was virtually identical to the border between referendum zones 1 and 2. The Kingdom of Denmark has existed with its current territory since 1920, although the last territorial dispute with Canada was only settled on 14 June 2022.
Metropolitan Denmark, [N 8] also called "continental Denmark" or "Denmark proper", [12] consists of the northern Jutland peninsula and an archipelago of 406 islands. [13] It is the southernmost of the Scandinavian countries, lying southwest of Sweden , south of Norway , and north of Germany , with which it shares a short border .
A common constitution for Denmark and Schleswig was promulgated in November 1863, which was a breach of the 1852 London Protocol. This left Denmark politically isolated and led to the Second Schleswig War, with Prussia and Austria invading once again. This was the Second War of Schleswig.
Valdemar's Wall, part of the medieval Danevirke fortifications on the former Dano-German border. Modern northern outskirts of Germany formed part of Denmark in the Middle Ages, including the major medieval Danish city of Hedeby, and the town of Schleswig (Danish: Slesvig), founded in the mid-11th century after the destruction of Hebedy.
Homann's map of the Scandinavian Peninsula and Fennoscandia with their surrounding territories: northern Germany, northern Poland, the Baltic region, Livonia, Belarus, and parts of Northwest Russia. Johann Baptist Homann (1664–1724) was a German geographer and cartographer; map dated around 1730.
Bilingual map of Angeln. Angeln (Danish: Angel) is a peninsula on the Baltic coast of Jutland, in the Bay of Kiel.It forms part of Southern Schleswig, the northernmost region of Germany.
Map of Southern Jutland in 1913 Southern Jutland in the present day. Southern Jutland (Danish: Sønderjylland; German: Südjütland) is the region south of the Kongeå in Jutland, Denmark and north of the Eider (river) in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.