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The Danish Realm, officially the Kingdom of Denmark, or simply Denmark, is a country and refers to the area over which the monarch of Denmark is head of state.
Denmark has flat, arable land, sandy coasts, low elevations, and a temperate climate. It had a population of 5,964,059 (1 December 2023), of whom 800,000 live in Copenhagen (2 million in the wider area). [19] Denmark exercises hegemonic influence in the Danish Realm, devolving powers to handle internal affairs.
- Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy
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The Danish Realm, officially the Kingdom of Denmark, is a country and refers to the area over which the monarch of Denmark is head of state. It consists of metropolitan Denmark—the kingdom's territory in continental Europe and sometimes called "Denmark proper" —and the realm's two autonomous regions: the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic ...
The Danish Realm on the Globe. (dark green) Clockwise from bottom right (sizes not to scale): Maps of Denmark (Northern Europe), Greenland (North Atlantic and Arctic) and the Faroe Islands (North Atlantic).
In 1945, the population of Denmark was just over 4 million. By 1973, this figure had risen to 5 million. During the post-war era, the population thus increased by approximately one million – or around 25%. This was mainly due to longer life expectancy and falling infant mortality rates.
The Danish state provides an annual grant to the Faroese and the Greenlandic authorities. The Faroe Islands’ Home Rule was established in 1948 and Greenland’s Home Rule was established in 1979. In 2005, the Faroe Islands’ options for assuming further fields of responsibilities expanded, and in 2009 a self-government arrangement for ...
