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.)

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