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The Øresund Bridge linking Denmark and Sweden. The city in the horizon is Malmö in Sweden. The two islands belong to Denmark; to the right is the artificially created Peberholm, to the left is the nature preserve, Saltholm.
Denmark is a Nordic country located in Northern Europe. It consists of the Jutland Peninsula and several islands in the Baltic Sea , referred [ citation needed ] to as the Danish Archipelago . Denmark is located southwest of Sweden and due south of Norway and is bordered by the German state (and former possession) Schleswig-Holstein to the ...
Denmark [a] is a Nordic country in Northern Europe.It is the metropole and most populous constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark, [N 7] also known as the Danish Realm, a constitutionally unitary state that includes the autonomous territories of the Faroe Islands and Greenland in the north Atlantic Ocean. [11]
Denmark has been a constitutional monarchy since 1849 and is a parliamentary democracy. It became a member of the European Economic Community (now the European Union ) in 1973. The Kingdom of Denmark also encompasses two off-shore territories, Greenland and the Faroe Islands , both of which enjoy wide-ranging home rule .
The following outline is provided as an overview, and topical guide to Denmark. Denmark – country located in Scandinavia of Northern Europe. [1] It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries. The mainland is bordered to the south by Germany; Denmark is southwest of Sweden and south of Norway. Denmark borders both the Baltic and the North Sea.
H. Tønnies: Jens Bangs Stenhus in Aalborg (1890). The technique of carte de visite photography was brought to Denmark by Rudolph Striegler in 1860. It spread rapidly and by the 1870s provided a cheap and attractive alternative to portrait painting for photographers such as Ludvig Grundtvig (1836–1901) and Adolph Lønborg (1835–1916) in Copenhagen, and Heinrich Tønnies (1856–1903) who ...
The official language of the country is Faroese, which is closely related to and partially mutually intelligible with Icelandic. Located at a similar distance from Iceland , Norway , and the United Kingdom , the islands have a total area of about 1,400 square kilometres (540 sq mi) with a population of 54,676 as of August 2023.
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