Location: Northern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, on a peninsula north of German (Jutland); also includes two major islands (Sjaelland and Fyn).
Land Area: 43,094 sq km ( 16,638 sq. miles)
Coastline: 7,314 km (4,545 miles)
Highest Point: Yding Skovhoej 173 m( 567 ft)
Lowest Point: Lammefjord 7 m (23 ft)
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This thoroughly modern market economy features high-tech agriculture, up-to-date small-scale and corporate industry, extensive government welfare measures, comfortable living standards, a stable currency, and high dependence on foreign trade. Denmark is a net exporter of food and energy and enjoys a comfortable balance of payment surplus. Government objectives include streamlining the bureaucracy and further privatization of state assets. The government has been participating in the third phase (a common European currency) of the European Economic and Monetary Unions (EMU), but Denmark has decided not to join 12 other EU members in the euro; even so, the Danish Krone remains pegged to the euro. Given the sluggish state of the European economy, growth in 2003 was a mere .3 percent.

Gross Domestic Product (GDP): $188.1 billion (2005 est.)
GDP Per Capita: $34,600 (2005 est.)
Number of Workers: 2.9 million (2005 est.)
Unemployment Rate: 5.7% (2005 est.)
Industries: Food processing, machinery and equipment, textiles and clothing, chemical products, electronics, construction, furniture and other wood products, shipbuilding and windmills.
Currency: Danish krone

Type of Government: Constitutional Monarchy
Head of State: Queen Margrethe II (since 14 January 1972)
Head of Government: Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen (since 27 November 2001)
Capital City: Copenhagen
Legal Age to Vote: 18
Flag Design: Red with a white cross that extends to the edges of the flag; the vertical part of the cross is shifted to the hoist side. That design element of the Dannebrog (Danish flag) was subsequently adopted by the other Nordic countries of Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.
Official Language: Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic (an Inuit dialect), German (small minority) Note: English is the predominant second language.
Religions: Evangelical Lutheran, 95 percent, other Protestant and Roman Catholic 3 percent; Muslim, 2 percent.

Once the seat of Viking raiders and later a major north European power, Denmark has evolved into a modern, prosperous nation. It participates in the general political and economic integration of Europe. It joined NATO in 1949 and the EEC (now the EU) in 1973. However, the country has opted out of certain elements of the EU's Maastricht Treaty, including the European economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and issues concerning certain justice and home affairs.