The Denmark guide
Everything you need to know about Denmark, all in one place
Understand Denmark before you travel or make the move. Explore interactive maps and practical facts about daily life. Learn about Danish culture and pick up the language you will need along the way. It is your complete guide to experiencing the country with confidence.
Denmark · Facts
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Geography of Denmark
A peninsula reaching north from Germany with some 400 islands attached, flat enough that the highest natural ground reaches 171 metres, and narrow enough that nowhere in the country sits more than about 52 kilometres from the sea. The second round leaves the map for the cities, where a quarter of the country lives around Copenhagen alone.
Denmark · Maps
Know the shape of the country
Three maps of Denmark itself, drawn from the same files the rounds are played on. The five regions are the frame everything else sits in; the towns and the water that separates them go inside it.
Pick a map. It opens and plays right here.
Denmark · Words
Take Danish with you
Lesson 1 of 10
Greetings and politeness
Hello, thanks, please: the ten openers everything else builds on.
Denmark · Citizenship test
Study for Denmark’s citizenship test
Unit 1 of 18
Grundloven og statsmagten
The constitution of 1849 and the two revisions since, what it guarantees, how the three powers are split, and where the monarch sits in all of it.
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