Danes: nationality (Danish; people of Denmark)

Geography

Denmark, part of Scandinavia, is predominantly a peninsula, known as Jutland or Jylland, about 210 miles long, extending into the North Sea (to the north) and the Baltic Sea (to the east). Denmark borders Germany to the south; to the northeast is Norway, and to the northwest

DANES: NATIONALITY nation:

Denmark (Danmark); Kingdom of Denmark (Kongeriget Danmark)

Derivation of name:

From the Indo-European root dhen, meaning "low" or "flat," and the German root mark, meaning "border land" or "border forest"; ancient Goths used the name for territory between Gothland and Scania.

Government:

Constitutional and hereditary monarchy

Capital:

Copenhagen

Language:

Majority of Danes speak Danish, the East Scandinavian branch of the North Germanic subfamily; German, English, Greenlandic (Eskimo), and Faeroese are also spoken.

Religion:

About 90 percent of the population belong to the Lutheran Church; Catholicism and Protestantism are also practiced.

Earlier inhabitants:

Cimbri; Teutones; Heruli; Jutes; Angles; Saxons; Dani.

Demographics:

The majority of the population are Scandinavian; ethnic minorities include German, Inuit, and Faeroese.

Is Sweden. The main islands within the North and Baltic Seas are Lolland, Sjaelland, Fyn, Falster, Langeland, Mon, and Bornholm, lying between the mainland and Sweden. The Faeroe Islands, a collection of 18 islands in the Atlantic Ocean, and Greenland, near North America, are also part of the Danish monarchy.

Excluding Greenland and the Faroe Islands, Denmark covers a surface area of 16,639 square miles. Yding Skoyhoj, a low range of hills harboring Denmark’s highest point, lies on the east coast. The west coast consists of dunes and sandbars.