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[syn: Denmark, Kingdom of Denmark, Danmark]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Denmark
n 1: a constitutional monarchy in northern Europe; consists of
the mainland of Jutland and many islands between the North
Sea and the Baltic Sea [syn: Denmark, Kingdom of
Denmark, Danmark]
CIA World Factbook 2002:
Denmark
Introduction Denmark
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Background: Once the seat of Viking raiders and
later a major north European power,
Denmark has evolved into a modern,
prosperous nation that is
participating in the general
political and economic integration
of Europe. However, the country has
opted out of European Union's
Maastricht Treaty, the European
monetary system (EMU), and issues
concerning certain internal affairs.
Geography Denmark
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Location: Northern Europe, bordering the
Baltic Sea and the North Sea, on a
peninsula north of Germany
(Jutland); also includes two major
islands (Sjaelland and Fyn)
Geographic coordinates: 56 00 N, 10 00 E
Map references: Europe
Area: total: 43,094 sq km
water: 700 sq km
note: includes the island of
Bornholm in the Baltic Sea and the
rest of metropolitan Denmark (the
Jutland Peninsula, and the major
islands of Sjaelland and Fyn), but
excludes the Faroe Islands and
Greenland
land: 42,394 sq km
Area - comparative: slightly less than twice the size of
Massachusetts
Land boundaries: total: 68 km
border countries: Germany 68 km
Coastline: 7,314 km
Maritime claims: continental shelf: 200-m depth or to
the depth of exploitation
exclusive economic zone: 200 NM
territorial sea: 12 NM
Climate: temperate; humid and overcast; mild,
windy winters and cool summers
Terrain: low and flat to gently rolling
plains
Elevation extremes: lowest point: Lammefjord -7 m
highest point: Yding Skovhoej 173 m
Natural resources: petroleum, natural gas, fish, salt,
limestone, stone, gravel and sand
Land use: arable land: 55.74%
permanent crops: 0.19%
other: 44.07% (1998 est.)
Irrigated land: 4,760 sq km (1998 est.)
Natural hazards: flooding is a threat in some areas
of the country (e.g., parts of
Jutland, along the southern coast of
the island of Lolland) that are
protected from the sea by a system
of dikes
Environment - current issues: air pollution, principally from
vehicle and power plant emissions;
nitrogen and phosphorus pollution of
the North Sea; drinking and surface
water becoming polluted from animal
wastes and pesticides
Environment - international party to: Air Pollution, Air
agreements: Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air
Pollution-Persistent Organic
Pollutants, Air Pollution-Sulphur
85, Air Pollution-Sulphur 94, Air
Pollution-Volatile Organic
Compounds, Antarctic Treaty,
Biodiversity, Climate Change,
Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol,
Desertification, Endangered Species,
Environmental Modification,
Hazardous Wastes, Marine Dumping,
Marine Life Conservation, Nuclear
Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection,
Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83,
Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands,
Whaling
signed, but not ratified: Antarctic-
Environmental Protocol, Law of the
Sea
Geography - note: controls Danish Straits (Skagerrak
and Kattegat) linking Baltic and
North Seas; about one-quarter of the
population lives in greater
Copenhagen
People Denmark
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Population: 5,368,854 (July 2002 est.)
Age structure: 0-14 years: 18.7% (male 514,589;
female 488,121)
15-64 years: 66.4% (male 1,806,722;
female 1,760,149)
65 years and over: 14.9% (male
334,599; female 464,674) (2002 est.)
Population growth rate: 0.29% (2002 est.)
Birth rate: 11.74 births/1,000 population (2002
est.)
Death rate: 10.81 deaths/1,000 population (2002
est.)
Net migration rate: 2.01 migrant(s)/1,000 population
(2002 est.)
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.06 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.05 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.03 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.72 male(s)/
female
total population: 0.98 male(s)/
female (2002 est.)
Infant mortality rate: 4.97 deaths/1,000 live births (2002
est.)
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 76.91 years
female: 79.67 years (2002 est.)
male: 74.3 years
Total fertility rate: 1.73 children born/woman (2002 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 0.17% (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/ 4,300 (1999 est.)
AIDS:
HIV/AIDS - deaths: less than 100 (1999 est.)
Nationality: noun: Dane(s)
adjective: Danish
Ethnic groups: Scandinavian, Inuit, Faroese,
German, Turkish, Iranian, Somali
Religions: Evangelical Lutheran 95%, other
Protestant and Roman Catholic 3%,
Muslim 2%
Languages: Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic (an
Inuit dialect), German (small
minority)
note: English is the predominant
second language
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read
and write
total population: 100%
male: NA%
female: NA%
Government Denmark
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Country name: conventional long form: Kingdom of
Denmark
conventional short form: Denmark
local short form: Danmark
local long form: Kongeriget Danmark
Government type: constitutional monarchy
Capital: Copenhagen
Administrative divisions: metropolitan Denmark - 14 counties
(amter, singular - amt) and 2
kommunes*; Arhus, Bornholm,
Fredericksberg*, Frederiksborg, Fyn,
Kobenhavn, Kobenhavns*, Nordjylland,
Ribe, Ringkobing, Roskilde,
Sonderjylland, Storstrom, Vejle,
Vestsjalland, Viborg
note: see separate entries for the
Faroe Islands and Greenland, which
are part of the Kingdom of Denmark
and are self-governing overseas
administrative divisions
Independence: first organized as a unified state
in 10th century; in 1849 became a
constitutional monarchy
National holiday: none designated; Constitution Day, 5
June is generally viewed as the
National Day
Constitution: 1849 was the original constitution;
there was a major overhaul 5 June
1953, allowing for a unicameral
legislature and a female chief of
state
Legal system: civil law system; judicial review of
legislative acts; accepts compulsory
ICJ jurisdiction, with reservations
Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal
Executive branch: chief of state: Queen MARGRETHE II
(since 14 January 1972); Heir
Apparent Crown Prince FREDERIK,
elder son of the monarch (born 26
May 1968)
head of government: Prime Minister
Anders Fogh RASMUSSEN (since 27
November 2001)
cabinet: Cabinet appointed by the
prime minister and approved by
Parliament
elections: none; the monarch is
hereditary; following legislative
elections, the leader of the party
that wins the most seats is usually
appointed prime minister by the
monarch
Legislative branch: unicameral Parliament or Folketing
(179 seats, including 2 from
Greenland and 2 from the Faroe
Islands; members are elected by
popular vote on the basis of
proportional representation to serve
four-year terms)
elections: last held 20 November
2001 (next to be held by November
2005)
election results: percent of vote by
party - NA%; seats by party -
Liberal Party 56, Social Democrats
52, Danish People's Party 22,
Conservative Party 16, Socialist
People's Party 12, Social Liberal
Party 9, Christian People's Party 4,
Unity List 4; note - does not
include the 2 seats from Greenland
and the 2 seats from the Faroe
Islands
Judicial branch: Supreme Court (judges are appointed
by the monarch for life)
Political parties and leaders: Center Democratic Party [Mimi
JAKOBSEN]; Christian People's Party
[Jann SJURSEN]; Conservative Party
(sometimes known as Conservative
People's Party) [Bendt BENDTSEN];
Danish People's Party [Pia
KJAERSGAARD]; Liberal Party [Anders
Fogh RASMUSSEN]; Social Democratic
Party [Poul Nyrup RASMUSSEN]; Social
Liberal Party (sometimes called the
Radical Left) [Marianne JELVED,
leader; Johannes LEBECH, chairman];
Socialist People's Party [Holger K.
NIELSEN]; Red-Green Unity List (bloc
includes Left Socialist Party,
Communist Party of Denmark,
Socialist Workers' Party)
[collective leadership]
Political pressure groups and NA
leaders:
International organization AfDB, AsDB, Australia Group, BIS,
participation: CBSS, CCC, CE, CERN, EAPC, EBRD,
ECE, EIB, ESA, EU, FAO, G- 9, IADB,
IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICFTU, ICRM,
IDA, IEA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO,
ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM,
ISO, ITU, MONUC, NATO, NC, NEA, NIB,
NSG, OAS (observer), OECD, OPCW,
OSCE, PCA, UN, UNAMSIL, UNCTAD,
UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNIKOM, UNMEE,
UNMIBH, UNMIK, UNMOGIP, UNMOP,
UNMOT, UNOMIG, UNTAET, UNTSO, UPU,
WEU (observer), WHO, WIPO, WMO,
WTrO, ZC
Diplomatic representation in the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Ulrik
Andreas FEDERSPIEL
consulate(s) general: Chicago, Los
Angeles, and New York
FAX: [1] (202) 328-1470
telephone: [1] (202) 234-4300
chancery: 3200 Whitehaven Street NW,
Washington, DC 20008
Diplomatic representation from the chief of mission: Ambassador Stuart
US: BERNSTEIN
embassy: Dag Hammarskjolds Alle 24,
2100 Copenhagen
mailing address: PSC 73, APO AE
09716
telephone: [45] 35 55 31 44
FAX: [45] 35 43 02 23
Flag description: red with a white cross that extends
to the edges of the flag; the
vertical part of the cross is
shifted to the hoist side, and that
design element of the Dannebrog
(Danish flag) was subsequently
adopted by the other Nordic
countries of Finland, Iceland,
Norway, and Sweden
Economy Denmark
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Economy - overview: This thoroughly modern market
economy features high-tech
agriculture, up-to-date small-scale
and corporate industry, extensive
government welfare measures,
comfortable living standards, a
stable currency, and high dependence
on foreign trade. Denmark is a net
exporter of food and energy and has
a comfortable balance of payments
surplus. The government has been
successful in meeting, and even
exceeding, the economic convergence
criteria for participating in the
third phase (a common European
currency) of the European Monetary
Union (EMU), but Denmark, in a
September 2000 referendum,
reconfirmed its decision not to join
the 11 other EU members in the euro.
Even so, the Danish currency remains
pegged to the euro.
GDP: purchasing power parity - $149.8
billion (2001 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 1.1% (2001 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $28,000
(2001 est.)
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 3%
industry: 22%
services: 75% (2001 est.)
Population below poverty line: NA%
Household income or consumption by lowest 10%: 2%
percentage share: highest 10%: 24% (2000 est.)
Distribution of family income - Gini 24.7 (1992)
index:
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2.4% (2001 est.)
Labor force: 2.856 million (2000 est.)
Labor force - by occupation: services 79%, industry 17%,
agriculture 4% (2000 est.)
Unemployment rate: 5.3% (2000)
Budget: revenues: $52.9 billion
expenditures: $51.3 billion,
including capital expenditures of
$500 million (2001 est.)
Industries: food processing, machinery and
equipment, textiles and clothing,
chemical products, electronics,
construction, furniture, and other
wood products, shipbuilding,
windmills
Industrial production growth rate: 1% (2001 est.)
Electricity - production: 35.792 billion kWh (2000)
Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 83.86%
hydro: 0.08%
other: 16.06% (2000)
nuclear: 0%
Electricity - consumption: 33.925 billion kWh (2000)
Electricity - exports: 7.679 billion kWh (2000)
Electricity - imports: 8.318 billion kWh (2000)
Agriculture - products: barley, wheat, potatoes, sugar
beets; pork, dairy products; fish
Exports: $52.4 billion (f.o.b., 2001)
Exports - commodities: machinery and instruments, meat and
meat products, dairy products, fish,
chemicals, furniture, ships,
windmills
Exports - partners: EU 65.9% (Germany 19.1%, Sweden
12.9%, UK 9.8%, France 5.0%,
Netherlands 5.0%), US 5.9%, Norway
5.5% (2000)
Imports: $44.1 billion (f.o.b., 2001)
Imports - commodities: machinery and equipment, raw
materials and semimanufactures for
industry, chemicals, grain and
foodstuffs, consumer goods
Imports - partners: EU 69.7% (Germany 21.1%, Sweden
12.3%, UK 8.6%, Netherlands 7.5%,
France 5.2%, Italy 4.4%), US 4.1%
(2000)
Debt - external: $21.7 billion (2000)
Economic aid - donor: ODA, $1.63 billion (1999)
Currency: Danish krone (DKK)
Currency code: DKK
Exchange rates: Danish kroner per US dollar - 8.418
(January 2002), 8.323 (2001), 8.083
(2000), 6.976 (1999), 6.701 (1998),
6.604 (1997); note - the Danes
rejected the euro in a 28 September
2000 referendum
Fiscal year: calendar year
Communications Denmark
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Telephones - main lines in use: 4.785 million (1997)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 1,444,016 (1997)
Telephone system: general assessment: excellent
telephone and telegraph services
domestic: buried and submarine
cables and microwave radio relay
form trunk network, 4 cellular
mobile communications systems
international: 18 submarine fiber-
optic cables linking Denmark with
Norway, Sweden, Russia, Poland,
Germany, Netherlands, UK, Faroe
Islands, Iceland, and Canada;
satellite earth stations - 6
Intelsat, 10 Eutelsat, 1 Orion, 1
Inmarsat (Blaavand-Atlantic-East);
note - the Nordic countries
(Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway,
and Sweden) share the Danish earth
station and the Eik, Norway, station
for worldwide Inmarsat access (1997)
Radio broadcast stations: AM 2, FM 355, shortwave 0 (1998)
Radios: 6.02 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations: 26 (plus 51 repeaters) (1998)
Televisions: 3.121 million (1997)
Internet country code: .dk
Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 13 (2000)
Internet users: 2.93 million (2001)
Transportation Denmark
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Railways: total: 2,859 km (508 km privately
owned and operated)
standard gauge: 2,859 km 1.435-
m gauge (600 km electrified; 760 km
double-track) (1998 est.)
Highways: total: 71,474 km
paved: 71,474 km (including 880 km
of expressways)
unpaved: 0 km (1999)
Waterways: 417 km
Pipelines: crude oil 110 km; petroleum products
578 km; natural gas 700 km
Ports and harbors: Abenra, Alborg, Arhus, Copenhagen,
Esbjerg, Fredericia, Kolding,
Odense, Roenne (Bornholm), Vejle
Merchant marine: total: 301 ships (1,000 GRT or over)
totaling 6,258,959 GRT/8,143,520 DWT
note: includes some foreign-owned
ships registered here as a flag of
convenience: Germany 1, Greenland 1,
Indonesia 1, Netherlands 1, Norway
9, United Kingdom 1 (2002 est.)
ships by type: bulk 8, cargo 105,
chemical tanker 26, container 72,
liquefied gas 20, livestock carrier
5, petroleum tanker 25, railcar
carrier 1, refrigerated cargo 13,
roll on/roll off 16, short-sea
passenger 7, specialized tanker 3
Airports: 116 (2001)
Airports - with paved runways: total: 28
over 3,047 m: 2
2,438 to 3,047 m: 7
1,524 to 2,437 m: 4
914 to 1,523 m: 12
under 914 m: 3 (2001)
Airports - with unpaved runways: total: 88
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 7
under 914 m: 80 (2001)
Military Denmark
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Military branches: Royal Danish Army, Royal Danish
Navy, Royal Danish Air Force, Home
Guard
Military manpower - military age: 18 years of age (2002 est.)
Military manpower - availability: males age 15-49: 1,287,168 (2002
est.)
Military manpower - fit for military males age 15-49: 1,099,900 (2002
service: est.)
Military manpower - reaching males: 29,212 (2002 est.)
military age annually:
Military expenditures - dollar $2.47 billion (FY99/00)
figure:
Military expenditures - percent of 1.4% (FY99/00)
GDP:
Transnational Issues Denmark
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Disputes - international: Rockall continental shelf dispute
involving Denmark, Iceland, and the
UK (Ireland and the UK have signed a
boundary agreement in the Rockall
area); dispute with Iceland over the
Faroe Islands' fisheries median line
boundary within 200 NM; disputes
with Iceland, the UK, and Ireland
over the Faroe Islands continental
shelf boundary outside 200 NM;
Faroese are considering proposals
for full independence
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):
Denmark, SC -- U.S. city in South Carolina
Population (2000): 3328
Housing Units (2000): 1537
Land area (2000): 3.036582 sq. miles (7.864710 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.036582 sq. miles (7.864710 sq. km)
FIPS code: 19105
Located within: South Carolina (SC), FIPS 45
Location: 33.321173 N, 81.142289 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 29042
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Denmark, SC
Denmark
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):
Denmark, WI -- U.S. village in Wisconsin
Population (2000): 1958
Housing Units (2000): 833
Land area (2000): 1.481694 sq. miles (3.837569 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.481694 sq. miles (3.837569 sq. km)
FIPS code: 19700
Located within: Wisconsin (WI), FIPS 55
Location: 44.348295 N, 87.829697 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 54208
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Denmark, WI
Denmark