Country

Denmark

Also Known As Kingdom of Denmark This entity is metropolitan Denmark. The wider Kingdom of Denmark also includes the self-governing Faroe Islands and Greenland.

Northern Europe

Denmark is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, comprising the Jutland peninsula and an archipelago of 406 islands, with Copenhagen as its capital and largest city. The unified Kingdom of Denmark emerged by the eighth century AD as a maritime power, with no single clean founding date; its modern constitutional monarchy dates to 5 June 1849. The wider Kingdom of Denmark also includes the self-governing Faroe Islands and Greenland. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts

Capital

Copenhagen 2

Population

6,001,008 2

May 2025 estimate.

Population Estimate Year

2025 2

Area (sq km)

43,094 2

Metropolitan Denmark; the wider Kingdom of Denmark also includes the self-governing Faroe Islands and Greenland.

Classification

Sovereignty Status

UN Member State 1

Denmark

Connections

Associated With

Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital of Denmark.

Source Copenhagen (Wikipedia)

Greenland Ice Sheet

Greenland is an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark; the ice sheet covers around 80% of its surface.

Source Greenland Ice Sheet (Wikipedia)

Helsingør

Helsingor, classically known in English as Elsinore, is a coastal city in northeastern Denmark.

Source Helsingør (Wikipedia)

Ilulissat Icefjord

Jutland Peninsula

Nordic Countries

Denmark is one of the three Nordic monarchies also called Scandinavia in the narrow sense.

Source Nordic Countries (Wikipedia)

Northern Europe

Scandinavia

Vejle

Vejle is a city in Denmark, in the southeast of the Jutland Peninsula.

Source Vejle (Wikipedia)

Bordered By Water

Baltic Sea

Denmark encloses the Baltic Sea.

Source Baltic Sea (Wikipedia)

Kattegat

North Sea

Source North Sea (Wikipedia)

Oresund

Skagerrak

Wadden Sea

Source Wadden Sea (Wikipedia)

Has Capital

Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital of Denmark.

Source Copenhagen (Wikipedia)

In the Other Atlases

Same As

Denmark

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Nationals Include

Peer Lorenzen

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Source Peer Lorenzen (Wikipedia)tier 2

Hans Christian Andersen

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Karen Blixen

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Peter Hoeg

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Bent Fuglede

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was a Danish mathematician

Harald Bohr

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Julius Petersen

Also in Mathematics Atlas: a national of this subject.

Source Julius Petersen (Wikipedia)Lead paragraph [nationality-culture]

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was a Danish mathematician

Poul Heegaard

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Poul Heegaard was a Danish mathematician who ( with Max Dehn ) was the first to classify compact surfaces.

Thomas Clausen

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Hans Christian Gram

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was a Danish bacteriologist

Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher

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Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher (15 November 1757 in Glückstadt, Holstein – 9 December 1830) was a Danish surgeon, botanist and professor of anatomy at the University of Copenhagen.

Holger Scheuermann

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Holger Werfel Scheuermann (født 12. februar 1877 i Hørsholm, død 2. marts 1960 i Roskilde) var en dansk ortopædkirurg og røntgenlæge

Ludwig Lewin Jacobson

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Source Ludwig Lewin Jacobson (Wikipedia)Lead paragraph [specialist-in]

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was a Danish surgeon

Niels Kaj Jerne

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was a Danish immunologist

Simon Paulli

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Source Simon Paulli (Wikipedia)Lead, nationality

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was a Danish physician and naturalist

Edgar Rubin

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Source Wikipedia: Edgar Rubin

Georg Rasch

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Source Wikipedia: Georg Rasch

Aage Bohr

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Aage Niels Bohr (Danish: [ˈɔːwə ˈne̝ls ˈpoɐ̯ˀ] ; 19 June 1922 – 8 September 2009) was a Danish nuclear physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1975 with Ben Roy Mottelson and James Rainwater "for the discovery of the connection between collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of the atomic nucleus based on this connection".

August Krogh

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Schack August Steenberg Krogh (15 November 1874 – 13 September 1949) was a Danish professor at the department of zoophysiology at the University of Copenhagen from 1916 to 1945.

Ben Mottelson

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Bengt Stromgren

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Bengt Georg Daniel Strömgren (21 January 1908 – 4 July 1987) was a Danish astronomer and astrophysicist.

Hans Christian Orsted

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Hans Christian Ørsted (Danish: [ˈɶɐ̯steð] ; 14 August 1777 – 9 March 1851), sometimes transliterated as Oersted ( UR-sted), was a Danish chemist and physicist who discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields.

Hans Momsen

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Henrik Dam

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Carl Peter Henrik Dam (21 February 1895 – 17 April 1976) was a Danish biochemist and physiologist.

Holger Bech Nielsen

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Inge Lehmann

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Inge Lehmann (13 May 1888 – 21 February 1993) was a Danish seismologist and geophysicist who is known for her discovery in 1936 of the solid inner core that exists within the molten outer core of the Earth.

Jens C. Skou

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Jorgen Christensen-Dalsgaard

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Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard (born 6 October 1950) is a Danish astronomer at Aarhus University in Denmark.

Karl Verner

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Karl Adolph Verner (Danish: [ˈkʰɑˀl ˈvɛɐ̯ˀnɐ]; 7 March 1846 – 5 November 1896) was a Danish linguist.

Louis Hjelmslev

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Louis Trolle Hjelmslev (Danish: [ˈjelˀmsle̝w]; 3 October 1899 – 30 May 1965) was a Danish linguist whose ideas formed the basis of the Copenhagen School of linguistics.

Morten Meldal

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Nicolas Steno

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Niels Steensen (Danish: Niels Steensen; Latinized to Nicolas Steno or Nicolaus Stenonius; 1 January 1638 – 25 November 1686 [NS: 11 January 1638 – 5 December 1686]) was a Danish scientist, a pioneer in both anatomy and geology who became a Catholic bishop in his later years.

Niels Bohr

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Niels Kaj Jerne

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Niels Kaj Jerne, FRS (23 December 1911 – 7 October 1994) was a Danish immunologist.

Otto Jespersen

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Jens Otto Harry Jespersen (Danish: [ˈʌtˢo ˈjespɐsn̩]; 16 July 1860 – 30 April 1943) was a Danish linguist who worked in foreign-language pedagogy, historical phonetics, and other areas, but is best known for his description of the grammar of the English language.

Peter Freuchen

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Peter Naur

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Peter Naur (25 October 1928 – 3 January 2016) was a Danish computer science pioneer and 2005 Turing Award winner.

Rasmus Rask

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Rasmus Kristian Rask (Danish: [ˈʁɑsmus ˈkʰʁestjæn ˈʁɑsk]; born Rasmus Christian Nielsen Rasch; 22 November 1787 – 14 November 1832) was a Danish linguist, philologist and a principal founder of the science of comparative linguistics.

Tycho Brahe

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Tycho Brahe ( TY-koh BRAH-(h)ee, -⁠ BRAH(-hə); Danish: [ˈtsʰykʰo ˈpʁɑːə] ; born Tyge Ottesen Brahe, Danish: [ˈtsʰyːjə ˈʌtəsn̩ ˈpʁɑːə]; 14 December 1546 – 24 October 1601), generally called Tycho for short, was a Danish astronomer known for his comprehensive and unprecedentedly accurate astronomical observations which helped to turn astronomy into the first modern science and launch the Scientific Revolution.

Andreas Mogensen

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Source Wikidata: Andreas Mogensen

Aron Nimzowitsch

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Gus Hansen

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Lars Jacobsen

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is a Danish retired professional footballer

Mads Andersen

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Mikkel Hansen

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Morten Olsen

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a Danish former football manager and former player

Nadia Nadim

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she has played for the Denmark national team

Nevzat Dogan

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Nicki Pedersen

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is a Danish motorcycle speedway rider

Paul Elvstrøm

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Paul Bert Elvstrøm (25 February 1928 – 7 December 2016) was a Danish yachtsman and the founder of Elvstrøm Sails.

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Origin Of

Danish Design

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Nordic Classicism

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Nordic Classicism was a style of architecture that briefly blossomed in the Nordic countries (Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland) between 1910 and 1930.

Georg Jensen

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Verner Panton

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Henrik Stiesdal

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Johannes Juul

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Niels Bohr

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Poul la Cour

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A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence

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Borgen (TV series)

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Dancer in the Dark

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Flee

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An international co-production with Denmark, France, Norway, and Sweden, it follows the story of a man under the alias Amin Nawabi, Rasmussen's high school friend, who shares his hidden past of fleeing his home country of Afghanistan to Denmark for the first time.

Haxan

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Häxan (Swedish: [ˈhɛ̂ksan], The Witch; Heksen Danish: [hɛksən], The Witch; English: The Witches; released in the US in 1968 as Witchcraft Through the Ages) is a 1922 Swedish-Danish silent horror essay film written and directed by Benjamin Christensen.

Ida (2013 film)

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Ordet

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Pelle the Conqueror

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Song of the Sea

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The Act of Killing

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The Celebration

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The Lego Movie

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The Look of Silence

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The Square (2017 film)

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Buttermilk koldskål

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Danish Blue

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Danish Cuisine

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Havarti

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Oatmeal ball

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Øllebrød

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Pfeffernüsse

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Denmark, Germany, Netherlands

Rød pølse

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Sol over Gudhjem

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Tebirkes

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Cnut the Great

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Margaret I of Denmark

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Grook

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Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow

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The Little Mermaid

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The Snow Queen

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The Ugly Duckling

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Christian F. Rostbøll

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Christian Rostbøll (born 1971) is a Danish philosopher and Professor of Political Theory at the University of Copenhagen.

Claus Emmeche

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Claus Emmeche (born 1956) is a Danish theoretical biologist and philosopher, one of founders of contemporary biosemiotics.

Harald Hoffding

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Jan Faye

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Jan Faye is a Danish philosopher of science and metaphysics.

Soren Kierkegaard

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Thomas Kjeller Johansen

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Thomas Kjeller Johansen (born 1965) is a Danish-Norwegian philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oslo.

Frisians

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Site Of

8 House

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Amalienborg

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Christiansborg Palace

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Christinelund

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Copenhagen City Hall

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Copenhagen City Hall (Danish: Københavns Rådhus) is the city hall of Copenhagen, Denmark, situated on the City Hall Square in central Copenhagen.

Det Norske Hus

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Flynderupgård

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Flynderupgård is a former country house in the Espergærde district of Helsingør, Denmark.

Garvergården

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Hesselagergård

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Kronborg Castle

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Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

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Ny Carlsberg Brewhouse

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Royal Stables (Denmark)

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Rydhave

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Villa Kampen

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Hamlet

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Trundholm Sun Chariot

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A.P. Moller-Maersk