Denmark (pronounced /ˈdɛnmɑrk/ ( listen); Danish Danish (dansk, pronounced [d̥ænsɡ̊]) is one of the North Germanic languages (also called Scandinavian languages), a sub-group of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European languages. It is spoken by around 6 million people, mainly in Denmark; the language is also used by the 50,000 Danes in the northern parts of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany: Danmark, pronounced [ˈd̥ænmɑɡ̊] /p, t, k/ are voiceless and aspirated: [pʰ, tˢ, kʰ] . /b, d, ɡ/ are voiceless and lenis: [b̥, d̥, ɡ̊]. /p~b/, /t~d/ and /k~ɡ/ are distinguished only in word-initial position or at the beginning of a stressed syllable. Hence lappe 'patch' = labbe 'lap' [ˈlɑb̥ə], værten 'the host' = verden 'the world' [ˈʋaɐ̯d̥ən], lække 'leak' =, archaic: [ˈd̥anmɑːɡ̊] /p, t, k/ are voiceless and aspirated: [pʰ, tˢ, kʰ] . /b, d, ɡ/ are voiceless and lenis: [b̥, d̥, ɡ̊]. /p~b/, /t~d/ and /k~ɡ/ are distinguished only in word-initial position or at the beginning of a stressed syllable. Hence lappe 'patch' = labbe 'lap' [ˈlɑb̥ə], værten 'the host' = verden 'the world' [ˈʋaɐ̯d̥ən], lække 'leak' =) is a Scandinavian Regardless of how the term Scandinavia is used outside the region, the terms Nordic countries and Nordic region are used officially and unambiguously to identify the nations of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland as well as the Danish territory of the Faroe Islands and the Finnish territory of Åland as politically and culturally similar country in Northern Europe Northern Europe is the northern part or region of Europe. The United Nations defines Northern Europe as including the following countries and dependent regions: and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark The Kingdom of Denmark (Danish: Kongeriget Danmark, pronounced [ˈd̥ænmɑɡ̊] , (archaic:) [ˈd̥anmɑːɡ̊], or Danmarks Rige), or Danish Realm, is a constitutional monarchy and a community consisting of three autonomous parts: Denmark in northern Europe, the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic, and Greenland in North America, with Denmark as. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries The Nordic countries make up a region in Northern Europe and the North Atlantic which consists of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and their associated territories which include the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Åland. Scandinavia is sometimes used as a synonym for the Nordic countries, although within the Nordic countries the terms; southwest of Sweden Sweden (pronounced /ˈswiːdən/ , Swedish: Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish: Konungariket Sverige (help·info)), is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the Öresund Bridge in the south and south of Norway Norway (pronounced /ˈnɔrweɪ/ ; Norwegian: Norge (Bokmål), Noreg (Nynorsk) or Norga (North Sami)), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a country in Northern Europe occupying the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, as well as Jan Mayen and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard under the Spitsbergen Treaty. The majority of the country, and it is bordered to the south by Germany Germany (pronounced /ˈdʒɜrməni/ ), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland, pronounced [ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant] ( listen)), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south. Denmark borders both the Baltic The Baltic Sea is a brackish inland sea located in Northern Europe, from 53°N to 66°N latitude and from 20°E to 26°E longitude. It is bounded by the Scandinavian Peninsula, the mainland of Europe, and the Danish islands. It drains into the Kattegat by way of the Øresund, the Great Belt and the Little Belt. The Kattegat continues through and the North Sea The North Sea is a marginal, epeiric sea on the European continental shelf. The Dover Strait and the English Channel in the south and the Norwegian Sea in the north connect it to the Atlantic Ocean. It is more than 970 kilometres long and 580 kilometres (360 mi) wide, with an area of around 750,000 square kilometres (290,000 sq mi). A large part. The country consists of a large peninsula, Jutland Jutland , historically also called Cimbria, forms the mainland part of Denmark. It has the North Sea to its west, Kattegat and Skagerrak to its north, the Baltic Sea to its east, and the Danish-German border to its south. The German state of Schleswig Holstein is part of the Cimbrian Peninsula but not part of Jutland (Jylland) and many islands, most notably Zealand Zealand is the largest island (7,031 km²) of Denmark (excluding Greenland, which is a Danish territory) and the 95th largest island in the world. Zealand is connected to Funen by the Great Belt Bridge and to Sweden by the Oresund Bridge (Sjælland), Funen Funen , with a size of 2,984 km² (1152 sq. miles), is the third-largest island of Denmark following Zealand and Vendsyssel-Thy, and the 163rd largest island of the world. Funen is located in the central part of the country and has a population of 447,000 people (2006). The main city is Odense, connected to the sea by canal, though this canal is (Fyn), Vendsyssel-Thy The North Jutlandic Island , Vendsyssel-Thy, or simply Jutland north of the Limfjord (Jylland nord for Limfjorden) is the northernmost part of Denmark and of Jutland. It consists of the traditional districts Vendsyssel, Hanherred and Thy. Although the area is separated from mainland Jutland by the Limfjord, it is traditionally regarded a part of, Lolland Lolland is the fourth largest island of Denmark, with an area of some 1,243 square kilometers (480 sq. miles). Located in the Baltic sea, it is part of Region Sjælland (County of Sealand), Falster Falster is a Danish island. The area of the island is 514 km² , and there are 43,537 inhabitants, over 40% of whom live in the principal town, Nykøbing Falster. It includes Denmark's southernmost point, Gedser Odde, near Gedser and Bornholm Bornholm (Old Norse: Burgundaholm, "the island of the Burgundians") is a Danish island in the Baltic Sea located to the east of (most of) the rest of Denmark, the south of Sweden, and the north of Poland. The main industries on the island include fishing, arts and crafts like glass making and pottery using locally worked clay, and dairy, as well as hundreds of minor islands often referred to as the Danish Archipelago An archipelago is a chain or cluster of islands that are formed tectonically. The word archipelago is directly derived from the Greek arkhon (arkhi-) ("main" - and so "leader" in "monarchy" for example) and pelagos ("sea"). In Italian, possibly following a tradition of antiquity, the Archipelago (Greek: Αρ. Denmark has long controlled the approach to the Baltic Sea, as over water this can only take place via one of the three channels, that are also known as the "Danish straits The Danish straits are the three channels connecting the Baltic sea to the North Sea through the Kattegat and Skagerrak. They transect Denmark, and are not to be confused with the Denmark Strait between Greenland and Iceland. The three main passages are:".
Denmark is a constitutional monarchy A constitutional monarchy is a form of government in which a monarch acts as head of state within the parameters of a written , unwritten (i.e., uncodified) or blended constitution. It differs from absolute monarchy in that an absolute monarch serves as the sole source of political power in the state and is not legally bound by any constitution with a parliamentary system A parliamentary system is a system of government where in the ministers of the executive branch are drawn from the legislature, and are accountable to that body, such that the executive and legislative branches are intertwined. In such a system, the head of government is both de facto chief executive and chief legislator of government. Denmark has a state-level government and local governments Local governments are administrative office that are smaller than a state. The term is used to contrast with offices at nation-state level, which are referred to as the central government, national government, or federal government in 98 municipalities The Constitution of Denmark states: "Article 82. The right of municipalities to manage their own affairs independently, under State supervision, shall be laid down by statute.". Denmark has been a member of the European Union The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 member states, located primarily in Europe. Committed to regional integration, the EU was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community. With almost 500 million citizens, the EU combined generates an since 1973, although it has not joined the Eurozone The eurozone is a economic and monetary union (EMU) of 16 European Union member states which have adopted the euro currency as their sole legal tender. It currently consists of Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain. Eight other states. Denmark is a founding member of NATO The North Atlantic Treaty Organization ); French: Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique Nord (OTAN)), also called "the (North) Atlantic Alliance", is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. The NATO headquarters are in Brussels, Belgium, and the organization and the OECD The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (in French: Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques, OCDE) is an international organisation of 30 countries that accept the principles of representative democracy and free-market economy. Most OECD members are high-income economies with a high HDI and are regarded as.
Denmark, with a free market A free market describes a market without economic intervention and regulation by government. The terminology is used by economists and in popular culture. A free market requires protection of property rights, but no regulation, no subsidization, no single monetary system, and no governmental monopolies. It is the opposite of a controlled market, capitalist economy Capitalism typically refers to an economic and social system in which the means of production are privately controlled; labor, goods and capital are traded in a market; profits are distributed to owners or invested in new technologies and industries; and wages are paid to labor and a large welfare state There is some confusion between a "welfare state" and a "welfare society," and debate[citation needed] about how each term should be defined. In many countries, especially in the United States, some degree of welfare is not actually provided by the state, but directly to welfare recipients from a combination of independent,[4] ranks according to one measure, as having the world's highest level of income equality This is a list of countries or dependencies by income inequality metrics, including Gini coefficients, according to the United Nations and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Denmark has the best business climate in the world, according to the US business magazine Forbes Forbes is an American publishing and media company. Its flagship publication, Forbes magazine, is published bi-weekly. Its primary competitors in the national business magazine category are Fortune, which is also published bi-weekly[clarification needed], and Business Week. The magazine is well-known for its lists, including its lists of the.[5] From 2006 to 2008, surveys[6] ranked Denmark as "the happiest place in the world," based on standards of health, welfare, and education. The 2009 Global Peace Index The Global Peace Index is an attempt to measure the relative position of nations’ and regions’ peacefulness. It is maintained by the Institute for Economics and Peace and developed in consultation with an international panel of peace experts from peace institutes and think tanks with data collected and analysed by the Economist Intelligence survey ranks Denmark as the second most peaceful country in the world, after New Zealand New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous smaller islands, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands. The indigenous Māori named New Zealand Aotearoa, commonly translated as The Land of the Long White Cloud. The Realm of New Zealand also includes the Cook.[7] Denmark was also ranked as the least corrupt country in the world in the 2008 Corruption Perceptions Index Since 1995, Transparency International has published an annual Corruption Perceptions Index ordering the countries of the world according to "the degree to which corruption is perceived to exist among public officials and politicians". The organization defines corruption as "the abuse of entrusted power for private gain",[8] sharing a top position with Sweden and New Zealand.
The national language A national language is a language which has some connection—de facto or de jure—with a people and perhaps by extension the territory they occupy. The term is used variously. A national language may for instance represent the national identity of a nation or country. National language may alternatively be a designation given to one or more, Danish Danish (dansk, pronounced [d̥ænsɡ̊]) is one of the North Germanic languages (also called Scandinavian languages), a sub-group of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European languages. It is spoken by around 6 million people, mainly in Denmark; the language is also used by the 50,000 Danes in the northern parts of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany, is close to Swedish Swedish ( svenska ) is a North Germanic language, spoken by approximately 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along the coast and on the Åland islands. It is to a considerable extent mutually intelligible with Norwegian and to a lesser extent with Danish (see especially "Classification"). Along and Norwegian Norwegian is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is an official language. Together with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional variants (see Danish language), with which they share strong cultural and historical ties. 82.0% of the inhabitants of Denmark and 90.3% of the ethnic Danes Germanic ethnic groups: Norwegians, Icelanders, Swedish, Dutch, Germans, Austrians, English, Faroese, Flemings are members of the Lutheran Lutheranism is a major branch of Western Christianity that identifies with the teachings of the 16th century German reformer Martin Luther. Luther's efforts to reform the theology and practice of the church launched the Protestant Reformation. The reactions of governmental and churchly authorities to the international spread of his writings, state church. About 9% of the population has foreign citizenship—a large portion of those are from other Scandinavian countries Regardless of how the term Scandinavia is used outside the region, the terms Nordic countries and Nordic region are used officially and unambiguously to identify the nations of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland as well as the Danish territory of the Faroe Islands and the Finnish territory of Åland as politically and culturally similar.
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Q. I see heart-shaped flags and hearts all over Denmark! Why is this? There certainly must be some sort of cultural or historical connection.
Asked by Elizabeth M - Thu Jun 21 14:28:30 2007 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments
A. The larger hearts on the coins are mintmarks of the Danish Royal Mint, the facility that produces the coins. The smaller heart along the rim of some older coins is the mark of the Mint Master, while the tiny hearts(9 of them) on the new 10 and 20 krone coins are part of the Danish coat-of-arms for over 800 years.
Answered by silverpet - Thu Jun 21 23:12:28 2007
