DENMARK


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Flag

Coat of Arms

Territory
42.933 km2 (130th)

Capital
Copenhagen

Language
Danish

Motto
'God's help, the love of the people, Denmark's strength'

National Flower
Marguerite Daisy (Argyranthemum frutescens)

National Flower
English holly (Ilex aquifolium)

National Flower
Red Clover(Trifolium pratense)

National Animal
Swan (Cygnus olor)






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Denmark Flag

Denmark, formally the Kingdom of Denmark, is a Nordic nation and the southernmost of the Scandinavian countries. Denmark lies southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and is circumscribed toward the south by Germany. The Kingdom of Denmark likewise involves two independent constituent nations in the North Atlantic Ocean: the Faroe Islands and Greenland. Denmark appropriate comprises of a landmass, Jutland, and an archipelago of 443 named islands, with the biggest being Zealand, Funen and the North Jutlandic Island. The islands are described by level, arable land and sandy coasts, low rise and a calm atmosphere. The brought together kingdom of Denmark developed in the tenth century as a capable marine country in the battle for control of the Baltic Sea. Denmark, Sweden, and Norway were controlled together under one sovereign ruler in the Kalmar Union, set up in 1397 and finishing with Swedish withdrawal in 1523. The territories of Denmark and Norway stayed under a similar ruler until 1814, frequently alluded to as the Dano-Norwegian Realm, or basically Denmark-Norway. Starting in the seventeenth century, there were a few destroying wars with the Swedish Empire, finishing with huge cessions of domain to Sweden. After the Napoleonic Wars, Norway was surrendered to Sweden, while Denmark kept the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Iceland. In the nineteenth century there was a flood of patriot developments, which were vanquished in the 1864 Second Schleswig War. Denmark stayed impartial amid World War I. In April 1940, a German attack saw brief military conflicts while the Danish obstruction development was dynamic from 1943 until the German surrender in May 1945. An industrialized exporter of horticultural produce in the second 50% of the nineteenth century, Denmark presented social and work advertise changes in the mid twentieth century that made the reason for the present welfare state model with an exceptionally created blended economy. The Constitution of Denmark was marked on 5 June 1849, finishing the outright government, which had started in 1660. It sets up a sacred government sorted out as a parliamentary vote based system. The administration and national parliament are situated in Copenhagen, the country's capital, biggest city, and primary business focus.


Coat of Arms


Denmark Coat of Arms

Territory


Denmark Map

42.933 km2 (130th)


Capital


Denmark Capital

Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and most crowded city of Denmark. Copenhagen is arranged on the eastern bank of the island of Zealand; another little bit of the city is situated on Amager, and is isolated from Malmö, Sweden, by the strait of Øresund. The Øresund Bridge interfaces the two urban communities by rail and street. Initially a Viking angling town built up in the tenth century in the region of what is currently Gammel Strand, Copenhagen turned into the capital of Denmark in the mid fifteenth century. Starting in the seventeenth century it merged its situation as a territorial focal point of intensity with its organizations, safeguards and military. Since the turn of the 21st century, Copenhagen has seen solid urban and social improvement, encouraged by interest in its establishments and foundation. The city is the social, monetary and administrative focus of Denmark; it is one of the major money related focuses of Northern Europe with the Copenhagen Stock Exchange. Copenhagen's economy has seen quick improvements in the administration area, particularly through activities in data innovation, pharmaceuticals and clean innovation.


Languague


Denmark Languague

Danish



Motto


Denmark Motto

'God's help, the love of the people, Denmark's strength'



National Flower of Denmark


Denmark National Flower

Marguerite Daisy (Argyranthemum frutescens)

Argyranthemum frutescens, known as Paris daisy, marguerite or marguerite daisy It is a perpetual bush that is about 2– 3 feet (61– 91 cm) tall and wide, while as a rule 1– 3 feet (30– 91 cm) tall. The firmly fanned plant regularly becomes globose-thick with climbing to upstanding branches. The substitute, pretty much plump and blue-green leaves are in diagram oval to oval-lanceolate, 1– 8 cm long and 4– 6 cm wide. The inflorescences are free umbrella grapes from four to 30 blooms. The for most subspecies around 8 mm long tongues of the beam florets are unadulterated white, female and structure prolific achenes, which are triangular to horn-like winged. The achenes of the yellow cylindrical blooms are sterile and one-winged. The pappus is in every case sporadically crown-molded. The foliage is green; the white, yellow or pink daisy-like bloom heads with a yellow focus are roughly 2.5 inches (6.4 cm) in distance across. The bloom is fragrant. The bloom opens its petals in the first part of the day and closes them during the evening.


National Flower of Denmark


Denmark National Flower

English holly (Ilex aquifolium)

Ilex aquifolium (holly, common holly, English holly, European holly, or occasionally Christmas holly), is a types of holly local to western and southern Europe, northwest Africa, and southwest Asia. Ilex aquifolium develops to 10– 25 m (33– 82 ft) tall with a woody stem as wide as 40– 80 cm (16– 31 in), seldom 100 cm (39 in) or more, in breadth. The leaves are 5– 12 cm long and 2– 6 cm expansive; they are evergreen, enduring around five years, and are dim green on the upper surface and lighter on the underside, oval, rough, gleaming, and around 5 to 9 cm long. In the youthful and in the lower appendages of develop trees, the leaves have three to five sharp spines on each side, pointing on the other hand upward and descending, while leaves of the upper branches in develop trees need spines. The blossoms are white, four-lobed, and pollinated by honey bees. Holly is dioecious, implying that there are male plants and female plants. The sex can't be resolved until the plants start blooming, for the most part somewhere in the range of 4 and 12 years old. In male examples, the blooms are yellowish and show up in axillary gatherings. In the female, blossoms are confined or in gatherings of three and are little and white or somewhat pink, and comprise of four petals and four sepals mostly combined at the base. The organic product just shows up on female plants, which require male plants close-by to prepare them. The natural product is a drupe (stone organic product), about 6– 10 mm in distance across, a brilliant red or splendid yellow.


National Flower of Denmark


Denmark National Flower

Red Clover(Trifolium pratense)

Trifolium pratense, the red clover, is a herbaceous types of blooming plant in the bean family Fabaceae, local to Europe, Western Asia, and northwest Africa, however planted and naturalized in numerous different areas. Red clover is a herbaceous, fleeting lasting plant, variable in size, developing to 20– 80 cm (8– 31 in) tall. It has a profound taproot which makes it tolerant to dry season and gives it a decent soil organizing impact. The leaves are substitute, trifoliate (with three pamphlets), every handout 15– 30 mm (0.6– 1.2 in) long and 8– 15 mm (0.3– 0.6 in) wide, green with a trademark pale bow in the external portion of the leaf; the petiole is 1– 4 cm (0.4– 1.6 in) long, with two basal stipules that are suddenly limited to a fiber like point. The blossoms are dull pink with a paler base, 12– 15 mm (0.5– 0.6 in) since a long time ago, delivered in a thick inflorescence, and are generally visited by honey bees.


National Animal of Denmark


Denmark National Animal

Swan (Cygnus olor)

The mute Swan (Cygnus olor) is a types of swan and an individual from the waterfowl family Anatidae. It is local to quite a bit of Eurasia, and (as an uncommon winter guest) the most distant north of Africa. Grown-ups of this extensive swan ordinarily run from 140 to 160 cm (55 to 63 in) long, despite the fact that can run in extraordinary cases from 125 to 170 cm (49 to 67 in), with a 200 to 240 cm (79 to 94 in) wingspan. Guys are bigger than females and have a bigger handle on their bill. By and large, this is the second biggest waterfowl species after the trumpeter swan, albeit male quiet swans can undoubtedly coordinate or even surpass a male trumpeter in mass. Among standard estimations of the quiet swan, the wing harmony estimates 53– 62.3 cm (20.9– 24.5 in), the bone structure is 10– 11.8 cm (3.9– 4.6 in) and the bill is 6.9– 9 cm (2.7– 3.5 in). The quiet swan is one of the heaviest flying fowls. In a few examinations from Great Britain, guys (known as cobs) were found to average from about 10.6 to 11.87 kg (23.4 to 26.2 lb), with a weight scope of 9.2– 14.3 kg (20– 32 lb) while the marginally littler females (known as pens) arrived at the midpoint of about 8.5 to 9.67 kg (18.7 to 21.3 lb), with a weight scope of 7.6– 10.6 kg (17– 23 lb). While the top ordinary load for a major cob is approximately 15 kg (33 lb), one uncommonly huge Polish cob weighed right around 23 kg (51 lb) and this considers the biggest weight at any point confirmed for a flying creature, in spite of the fact that it has been addressed whether this heavyweight could in any case take off. Youthful feathered creatures, called cygnets, are not the brilliant white of develop grown-ups, and their bill is dull grayish-dark, not orange, for the principal year. The down may extend from unadulterated white to dim to buff, with dark/buff the most well-known. The white cygnets have a leucistic quality. Cygnets develop rapidly, achieving a size near their grown-up size in roughly three months in the wake of bring forth. Cygnets regularly hold their dark plumes until they are in any event one year old, with the down on their wings having been supplanted by Flight quills before that year.


Demonym(s)

Danish

Population

5,806,015
(2018 estimate)

Currency

Danish krone (DKK)

Time Zone

UTC+1 (CET)

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