Population (1996) 5,237,000.
Area:- 43,094 Sq Km.
Capital:- Copenhagen.
Currency:- Kroner.
Language:- Danish.
Southernmost of the Scandinavian countries, Denmark occupies the Jutland Peninsula in north central Europe and the islands of Sjelland, Funen, Lolland and Fralster. It has a total area of 43,080 sq km including 480 other smaller islands, the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea but excluding the self governing dependencies of Greenland (North Atlantic) and the Faroe Islands (Atlantic)
Denmark exhibits a low-lying, glaciated topography with an average elevation of less than 30 metres rising to 173 metres at Yding Skovhoj in east central Jutland. An undulating moraine (running northwest-south) divides the sandy soils to the west from the fertile loam of East Jutland. Many of the coastal fjords penetrate the interior mainland, including Limfjorden which divides Jutland from its northernmost tip. The longest river is the Gudena (155 kms) in east central Jutland, and the most densely popoulated areas are the city and country of Copenhagen (Kobenhavn) (5,314 and 1,151 persons per sq km respectively) and the borough of Fredriksberg (9,785 persons per sq km). 61 percent of Denmark is arable and 12 percent is forest or woodland.*
First stamps issued 1st April 1851.
Denmark stamp booklet.
Front cover.
Information on the back cover.
Inside.
*Source The SBS World Guide (5th edition)
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