Denmark



"Denmark is some Scandinavian country where it's being bordered by Germany on the north. Now it's being under attack as well."

--Su Ji-Hoon, Going for Broke

Denmark (/ˈdɛnmɑːrk/); Danish: Danmark, pronounced [ˈdanmɑɡ]), officially the Kingdom of Denmark, is a Nordic country and a sovereign state. The southernmost of the Scandinavian nations, it is south-west of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. The Kingdom of Denmark also comprises two autonomous constituent countries in the North Atlantic Ocean: the Faroe Islands and Greenland. Denmark proper consists of a peninsula, Jutland, and an archipelago of 443 named islands, with the largest being Zealand, Funen and the North Jutlandic Island. The islands are characterized by flat, arable land and sandy coasts, low elevation and a temperate climate. Denmark has an area of 42,924 kilometers (16,573 square miles), total area including Greenland and the Faroe Islands is 2,210,579 kilometers (853,509 square miles), and a population of 5.75 million (as of 2017).