National name: Kongeriget Danmark

Sovereign: Queen Margrethe II (1972)

Prime Minister: Anders Fogh Rasmussen (2001)

Area: 16,639 sq mi (43,094 sq km)1

Population (2005 est.): 5,432,335 (growth rate: 0.3%); birth rate: 11.4/1000; infant mortality rate: 4.6/1000; life expectancy: 77.6; density per sq mi: 326

Capital and largest city (2003 est.): Copenhagen, 1,094,400

Other large cities: Ã…rhus, 220,700; Odense, 144,600; Ã…lborg, 120,600

Monetary unit: Krone

Languages: Danish, Faeroese, Greenlandic (Inuit dialect), German; English is the predominant second language

Ethnicity/race: Scandinavian, Inuit, Faroese, German, Turkish, Iranian, Somali

Religions: Evangelical Lutheran 95%, other Protestant and Roman Catholic 3%, Muslim 2%

Literacy rate: 100%

Economic summary: GDP/PPP (2004 est.): $174.4 billion; per capita $32,200. Real growth rate: 2.1%. Inflation: 1.4%. Unemployment: 6.2%. Arable land: 54%. Agriculture: barley, wheat, potatoes, sugar beets; pork, dairy products; fish. Labor force: 2.87 million; services 79%, industry 17%, agriculture 4% (2002 est.). Industries: iron, steel, nonferrous metals, chemicals, food processing, machinery and transportation equipment, textiles and clothing, electronics, construction, furniture and other wood products, shipbuilding and refurbishment, windmills. Natural resources: petroleum, natural gas, fish, salt, limestone, stone, gravel and sand. Exports: $73.06 billion (f.o.b., 2004 est.): machinery and instruments, meat and meat products, dairy products, fish, chemicals, furniture, ships, windmills. Imports: $63.45 billion (f.o.b., 2004 est.): machinery and equipment, raw materials and semimanufactures for industry, chemicals, grain and foodstuffs, consumer goods. Major trading partners: Germany, Sweden, UK, U.S., Norway, France, Netherlands, Italy (2003).

Communications: Telephones: main lines in use: 4.785 million (1997); mobile cellular: 1,444,016 (1997). Radio broadcast stations: AM 2, FM 355, shortwave 0 (1998). Radios: 6.02 million (1997). Television broadcast stations: 26 (plus 51 repeaters) (1998). Televisions: 3.121 million (1997). Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 13 (2000). Internet users: 3.37 million (2002).

Transportation: Railways: total: 3,164 km (2002). Highways: total: 71,591 km; paved: 71,591 km (including 880 km of expressways); unpaved: 0 km (2000). Waterways: 417 km. Ports and harbors: Abenra, Alborg, Arhus, Copenhagen, Esbjerg, Fredericia, Kolding, Odense, Roenne (Bornholm), Vejle. Airports: 104 (2002).

International disputes: Rockall continental shelf dispute involving Denmark, Iceland, and the UK (Ireland and the UK have signed a boundary agreement in the Rockall area); dispute with Iceland over the Faroe Islands' fisheries median line boundary within 200 NM; disputes with Iceland, the UK, and Ireland over the Faroe Islands continental shelf boundary outside 200 NM; Faroese are considering proposals for full independence; uncontested dispute with Canada over Hans Island sovereignty in the Kennedy Channel between Ellesmere Island and Greenland.