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Dymaxion map of the world with the 30 largest countries and territories by area. This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies, ranked by total area, including land and water. This list includes entries that are not limited to those in the ISO 3166-1 standard, which covers sovereign states and dependent territories.
Denmark has an Exclusive Economic Zone of 105,989 km 2 (40,923 sq mi). When including the Faroe Islands and Greenland, the EEZ is the 15th largest in the world with 2,220,093 km 2 (857,183 sq mi). A circle enclosing the same total area as Denmark would have a diameter of 234 km (146 miles).
The metropolitan part occupies a total area of 42,943.9 square kilometres (16,581 sq mi). [53] The area of inland water is 43 km 2 (17 sq mi). [54] The size of the land area cannot be stated exactly since the ocean constantly erodes and adds material to the coastline, and because of human land reclamation projects (to counter erosion).
The Constitution of the Kingdom of Denmark refers to the state's territory as Danmarks Rige (Danish Realm), which means "The Realm of Denmark". [23] [24] [25]The Danish term rigsfællesskabet, translated as "The unity of the Realm", [18] the "commonwealth of the Realm", [26] [27] or the "Danish Commonwealth" [28] refers to the constitutional status of the relationship between Denmark, the ...
The UN World Happiness Report released last week ranked Denmark the world’s second happiest country for a sixth consecutive year. Denmark came just behind Finland, a country that has now held ...
Since 2009 Greenland has held the right to declare independence from Denmark. The island of some 56,000 inhabitants, which relies on significant budget transfers from Copenhagen each year, has so ...
The CIA World Factbook is as good a source as the United Natons website, and actually contains much of the same information, if one bothers to look up the difference between total area and land area. As for listing land area rather than total area. In principle, I agree this sounds logical, but it poses problems.
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