Everything you need to know about Denmark
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.
Read it, then make it stick
Geography of Denmark
A peninsula reaching north from Germany with some 400 islands attached, flat enough that the highest natural ground reaches 171 meters, and narrow enough that nowhere in the country sits more than about 52 kilometers from the sea. The second round leaves the map for the cities, where a quarter of the country lives around Copenhagen alone.
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.
Places worth visiting
Essential ยท Harbor
Nyhavn
Colorful townhouses line a seventeenth-century canal. Harbor boat tours leave from here.
Spend time in Copenhagenโs harbor and castles, then cross to Jutland for Viking towns and the meeting of two seas at Skagen. Essential is our shortlist for a first trip, and worth a detour goes further. Select a pin to read about a place, then play the map and find them all.
Take Danish with you
Greetings and politeness
Hello, please, thank you, sorry: the ten openers everything else builds on.
Study for Denmarkโs citizenship test
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.
Keep going one country deeper
When you have had your fill of Denmark, the countries in white have a guide like this one, and every other has maps of its own.
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