Ort: 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)
Geografische Koordinaten: 56° 0' N, 10° 0' E
Küste km: 7,314 km km
Klima: temperate; humid and overcast; mild, windy winters and cool summers
Gelände: low and flat to gently rolling plains
Höhe: lowest point: Lammefjord -7 m highest point: Yding Skovhoej 173 m
Natürliche Gefahren: 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
Währung: Danish krone (DKK)
Bevölkerung: 5,450,661 (July 2006 est.)
Sprachen: Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic (an Inuit dialect), German (small minority)
Hauptstadt: Copenhagen
Bereiche: The 1st January 2007, the 14 counties will be reorganized into five regions.