Denmark (dnk)

Denmark

Denmark ranks 234th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Hamamatsu, Jacksonville, Florida, and Sacramento, California. Memorable people born in Denmark include Ivar the Boneless, Ubba, and Sweyn Forkbeard. Memorable people who died in Denmark include Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye, Horik I, and Sweyn II of Denmark. Denmark has been the birth place of many politicians and soccer players and the death place of many politicians and soccer players. Denmark is located in Denmark.

Denmark is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. European Denmark, which is the southernmost of the Scandinavian countries, consists of a peninsula, Jutland, and an archipelago of 443 named islands, with the largest being Zealand, Funen and the North Jutlandic Island. The islands are characterised by flat, arable land and sandy coasts, low elevation and a temperate climate. Denmark lies southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and is bordered to the south by Germany. The Kingdom of Denmark is constitutionally a unitary state comprising metropolitan Denmark and the two autonomous territories in the North Atlantic Ocean: the Faroe Islands and Greenland. Denmark has a total area of 42,943 km2 (16,580 sq mi) as of 2020, and the total area including Greenland and the Faroe Islands is 2,210,579 km2 (853,509 sq mi). Metropolitan Denmark has a population of 5.85 million, of which 800,000 live in the capital and largest city Copenhagen. Read more on Wikipedia