Key facts
Capital:Copenhagen
Location:Northern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, on a peninsula north of Germany (Jutland); also includes several major islands (Sjaelland, Fyn, and Bornholm)
Currency:Danish kroner (DKK)
Area:43,094 sq km
Population:5,894,687 (July 2021 est.)
Languages:Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic (an Inuit dialect), German (small minority); note - English is the predominant second language
Religion:Evangelical Lutheran (official) 74.7%, Muslim 5.5%, other/none/unspecified (denominations of less than 1% each in descending order of size include Roman Catholic, Jehovah's Witness, Serbian Orthodox Christian, Jewish, Baptist, Buddhist, Church of Jesus Christ, Pentecostal, and nondenominational Christian) 19.8% (2019 est.)
TimeZone:UTC+1
Tel Code:+45
