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Title: Facts about Denmark
Post by: nasir760 on November 27, 2010, 08:07:14 PM

Population: 5,511,451 (2010)

Area: 43,098 square kilometres

Population density: 126.4 pr. square kilometre

Geographic region: Scandinavia

Gross domestic product: DKK 1.658 billion (2009)

GDP pr. inhabitant: 300.241 DKK (2009)

Capital: Copenhagen

Other major cities: Ã…rhus , Odense , Aalborg

Form of state: Monarchy

Government: Coalition of the Liberals and the Conservatives, headed by the Liberals

Head of state: Queen Margrethe II (since 14 January 1972)

Head of government: Lars Løkke Rasmussen (since 5. April 2009)

Ethnic distribution: 90.9% Danes. Immigrants and their descendants constitute about 9.1 per cent of the population.(2009)

Life expectancy: Women 80.5 years, men 76.0 (2009)

Language: Danish

Religion: 90% Protestant

Currency: Danish Kroner, DKK. 1 Krone = 100 Øre (5.42 DKK = 1 USD, 2010)

Member of: UN, OECD, EU, Nato, Schengen, OSCE, IMF, WTO and others