Denmark

Denmark

Denmark ranks 26th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind South Korea, Hungary, and Norway. Memorable people born in present day Denmark include Hans Christian Andersen, Cnut the Great, and Margrethe II of Denmark. Memorable people who died in Denmark include Hans Christian Andersen, Niels Bohr, and Hans Christian Ørsted. Denmark has been the birth place of many soccer players, and politicians and the death place of many politicians, and writers.

Denmark is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It is the metropole and most populous constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark, 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. Metropolitan Denmark, also called "continental Denmark" or "Denmark proper", consists of the northern Jutland peninsula and an archipelago of 406 islands. 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. Denmark proper is situated between the North Sea to the west and the Baltic Sea to the east. Read more on Wikipedia