Danish Realm
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The Danish Realm, officially the Kingdom of Denmark, or simply Denmark, is a sovereign state consisting of a collection of constituent territories united by the Constitutional Act, which applies to the entire territory. It consists of metropolitan Denmark —the kingdom's territory in continental Europe and its proximate islands—and the realm's two autonomous regions: the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic and Greenland in North America. The relationship between the three parts of the kingdom is known as Rigsfællesskabet.
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Country
- Capital
- Copenhagen
- Population
- 6,011,488
- Region
- Europe · Northern Europe
- Demonym
- Danish
- Currencies
- DKK (kr)
- Languages
- Danish
- Calling code
- +45
- Drives on
- Right
- Gini
- 28.2 (2018)
- FIFA code
- DEN
- TLD
- .dk
- Timezones
- UTC-04:00 · +4 more
- Borders
- DEU
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Indicators · World Bank
- GDP
- $424.5B(2024)
- Population
- 5,976,992(2024)
- Life expectancy
- 82.3 yrs(2024)
- Unemployment
- 5.5 %(2025)
- Urban population
- 88.7 %(2024)
- Internet users
- 99.8 %(2024)
- Forest area
- 15.8 %(2023)
- Renewable energy
- 39.5 %(2021)
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Key facts
- Capital and largest city
- Copenhagen
- Official languages
- Danish ; locally: Faroese Greenlandic
- Recognised regional languages
- German
- Demonyms
- Danish ; locally: Greenlander Faroe Islander
- Constituent territories non sovereign pa
- Denmark (main) and separate parts: Faroe Islands Greenland
- Government
- Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy
- Monarch
- Frederik X
- Prime minister
- Mette Frederiksen
- Prime minister of the faroe islands
- Beinir Johannesen
- Prime minister of greenland
- Jens Frederik Nielsen
- Legislature
- Folketing , with some authority devolved to Løgting ( Faroe Islands ) and Inatsisartut ( Greenland )
- Unification
- c. 965
- Faroese home rule
- 24 March 1948
- Greenlandic home rule
- 1 May 1979
- Faroese takeover act
- 29 July 2005
- Greenlandic self rule
- 21 June 2009
- Denmark
- 42,926 km (16,574 sq mi) ( 12th )
- Faroe islands
- 1,396 km (538.999 sq mi)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- transcontinental country
- Has part
- Faroe Islands
- Official name
- Kinnekräich Dänemark
- Demonym
- Danish
- Contains
- Greenland
- Continent
- North America
- Capital
- Copenhagen
- Official language
- Greenlandic
- Currency
- Faroese króna
- Population
- 5930987
- Area
- 2220930
- Time zone
- UTC−04:00
- Body of water
- North Sea
- Head of government
- Mette Frederiksen
- Head of state
- Frederik X of Denmark
- Form of government
- parliamentary monarchy
- Legislature
- Folketing
- Anthem
- Der er et yndigt land
- Shares border with
- West Germany
- Highest point
- Gunnbjørn Fjeld
- Location
- Atlantic Ocean
- Image
- Kronborg flygfoto 1, 2021.jpg
- Calling code
- +299
- Flag
- flag of Denmark
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- Coat of arms
- coat of arms of Denmark
- topic's main category
- Category:Danish Realm
- Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index
- 0.898
- office held by head of state
- monarch of Denmark
- office held by head of government
- Prime Minister of Denmark
- executive body
- Danish Council of State
- highest judicial authority
- Supreme Court of Denmark
- different from
- Denmark
- member of
- NATO
- Commons category
- Kingdom of Denmark
- inception
- 0965-00-00
- short name
- Dania
- native label
- Kongeriget Danmark
- Unicode character
- 🇬🇱
- owner of
- Energinet
- language used
- German
- emergency phone number
- 112
- category of associated people
- Category:Danish people
- category for people who died here
- Category:Deaths in Denmark
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Greenland
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Denmark
- located in/on physical feature
- Scandinavia
- lowest point
- Lammefjord
- central bank
- Danmarks Nationalbank
- driving side
- right
- ethnic group
- Kalaallit
- has characteristic
- free country
- top-level Internet domain
- .dk
- Stack Exchange tag
- travel.stackexchange.com/tags/greenland
- topic's main Wikimedia portal
- Portal:Denmark
- open data portal
- Statistics Greenland
- diplomatic relation
- Trinidad and Tobago
- public holiday
- Yule
- main regulatory text
- constitution of Denmark
- Human Development Index
- 0.948
- hashtag
- KingdomofDenmark
- P12749
- TogliattiAzot
- P6413
- Danish Realm
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Encyclopedic overview
The Danish Realm, officially the Kingdom of Denmark, or simply Denmark, is a sovereign state consisting of a collection of constituent territories united by the Constitutional Act, which applies to the entire territory. It consists of metropolitan Denmark (sometimes called "Denmark proper")—the kingdom's territory in continental Europe and its proximate islands—and the realm's two autonomous (but not sovereign) regions: the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic and Greenland in North America. The relationship between the three parts of the kingdom is known as Rigsfællesskabet (The Unity of the Realm, which has also been translated as the Danish Commonwealth or the United Kingdom of Denmark).
The Kingdom of Denmark is not a federation, but a concept encompassing the three autonomous legal systems of Denmark, the Faroe Islands and Greenland, united under its monarch. The Kingdom of Denmark is a unitary sovereign state. It has Arctic territorial claims in the Arctic Ocean: various sites near the North Pole (Lomonosov Ridge, Gakkel Ridge, and the Alpha-Mendeleev Ridge complex). The Kingdom of Denmark constitutionally encompasses the realm or the country, but the Faroe Islands and Greenland have an extended degree of autonomy to govern their relations.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Danish Realm” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.