Country Facts
Country Facts
Quick Facts
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5,932,654 people live in Denmark
The average life expectancy is 83 years for women and 79 years for men. 10,5% of the people living in Denmark are born in a foreign country. Denmark Quick Facts
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Denmark has one of the oldest monarchies in the world.
From current monarch His Majesty King Frederik X, the Danish monarchy dates back to the first Viking kings of Denmark more than 1000 years ago.
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Dannebrog is the world's oldest national flag
According to legend, Dannebrog fell from the sky at the Battle of Lyndanisse in Estonia in 1219 leading the Danish King Valdemar II to victory during his crusade to the Baltic States.
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The Capital of Denmark i Copenhagen
Copenhagen is located on Zealand, where you will also find The Little Mermaid from Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales. The Royal Family lives in Copenhagen at "Amalienborg".
Country facts and municipality services
- Denmark.dk offers information on country facts, society, and lifestyle in nine languages. This website is the countries' official internet representative, edited by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark. One of the ambitions of the portal is to facilitate the gathering of information on Denmark, Danes and Danish customs for foreigners.
- Lifeindenmark.dk is part of the common public portal in Denmark called borger.dk. This is a public self-service portal with content targeted directly towards expats, who come to Denmark to work.
- The International House North Denmark (Aalborg) and the International House Copenhagen both act as an "international one-stop-shop" for citizens, companies, and organisations.
- At Newcomer Service in Esbjerg you can find guidance on matters such as housing, spouse job search, finding a babysitter, Danish culture, leisure activities, social networks, how to establish new network groups, guidance on the digital signature called NemID.