Facts and Figures
Full name: Denmark
Nationality noun: Dane(s) adjective: Danish
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Area total: 43,094 sq km water: 700 sq km note: includes the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea and the rest of metropolitan Denmark (the Jutland Peninsula, and the major islands of Sjaelland and Fyn), but excludes the Faroe Islands and Greenland land: 42,394 sq km
Population: 5,432,335 (July 2005 est.)
Ethnic groups
Scandinavian Inuit Faroese German Turkish Iranian Somali
Capital: Copenhagen, population 500,000
Largest Cities
Odense – 145,000 Olburg – 120,000
Official Language
Danish Faroese Greenlandic (an Inuit dialect) German (small minority) note: English is the predominant second language
Religions
Evangelical Lutheran 95% other Protestant Roman Catholic 3% Muslim 2%
Political system: Kingdom
GDP: purchasing power parity – $174.4 billion (2004 est.)
GDP per head: purchasing power parity – $32,200 (2004 est.)
Annual growth: 2.1% (2004 est.)
GDP – composition by sector
agriculture: 2.2% industry: 25.5% services: 72.3% (2004 est.)
Inflation: 1.4% (2004 est.)