Official Name: Kongeriget Danmark (Kingdom of Denmark)

Area: Europe

Size: 43,094 km²

Coastline: 7,314 km

Independence: first organized as a unified state in 1849

Form of Govt.: Parliamentary state and constitutional monarchy

Head of Govt.: Prime Minister

Capital: Copenhagen

Largest City: Copenhagen

Demographics (2005): 5,447,084,    128.48 /km²

Scandinavian, Inuit (Greenlandic), German, Turkish, Vietnamese, Arab

GDP per Capita (2005): $37,000

Languages: Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic (an Inuit dialect), German (small minority)

Geography: Denmark is a low lying country characterized by a mixture of glacial moraine deposits of clay, sand, gravel and limestone which form undulating plains with rolling hills that are interspersed with lakes. The coastline is indented with many lagoons and fjords.

Climate: Temperate maritime climate that is very changeable under the marine influences and the effect of the Gulf Air Stream. Generally, the winters are cold and cloudy, although summers are warm and sunny. Average annual precipitation is 600 mm and snow falls between January and March. Although rainfall occurs throughout the year it is heaviest between August and October and lowest during the spring and winter months. Average temperature ranges in Copenhagen are from -3 to 2 degrees in February to 14 to 22 degrees in July.