Denmark
This page was generated on 20 September 2026 at 12:27 UTC. The bundled facts on it were retrieved between 13 July 2026 and 8 August 2026. Aletheia's source record for emergency numbers records no retrieval date, so it is not covered by that range.
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Denmark is filled. The 4 other countries reaching this view are drawn in a dimmer tone — dimmed, not hidden. Unpainted ground is where no boundary in this dataset falls: open water, or land none of them claims.
Nothing is hatched because no disputed area in this source overlaps Denmark. That is not a finding that none exists — the source says plainly that its list is not exhaustive.
Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m. Disputed areas: Natural Earth (public domain). Equirectangular projection, standard parallel 56.2°N — distances and areas away from that parallel are stretched. View: 7.5°E–15.8°E, 54.3°N–58.0°N.
Disputed areas
none listedNo disputed area in this source overlaps Denmark. That is not a finding that none exists — the source says plainly that its list is not exhaustive.
News sources
1 source from Denmarkin Aletheia’s registry. Coverage here is thin.
- DR
sources not yet assessed · state-affiliated only
Official alerts
An official alerting source is connected for Denmark: MeteoAlarm (EUMETNET).
This says a source is connected — not whether any warning is in force right now. Open Alerts for that.
National legislature
no source connectedNo official legislature website has been verified for this country. Absence here means no domain-verified authoritative source was found — never that no legislature exists.
Local time
One time zone.
The current time needs JavaScript, so it is not shown here rather than shown wrong.
Conditions at the capital
Right now in Copenhagen
17°C / 62°FOvercastwind 21 km/h / 13 mph
Checked 12 minutes ago
Conditions at the capital, not across the country.
Weather from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)
Copenhagen, 2026-09-20Sunrise 6:50 AM · sunset 7:14 PM12h 24m of daylightWaxing gibbous, 65% lit
At a glance
- ISO code
- DNKuncited
- Driving side
- rightuncited
- Mains voltage
- 230 Vcited
- Capital
- Copenhagencited
- Official language
- Danishuncited
- Plug types
- Type C (Europlug), Type E, Type F (Schuko), Type Kcited · letters are the IEC classification
- Official website
- borger.dk ↗Recorded by us, not by the source: Agency for Digital Government (Digitaliseringsstyrelsen) — linked from a page in the government's namespace, recorded 2026-08-07. We have not tested whether it loads.Denmark uses a plain .dk ccTLD. borger.dk is the national citizen-services portal; the political government's own site is separately regeringen.dk.cited
- Country-branding site
- denmark.dk ↗Not a government portal.
Population and economy
Population
Population of Denmark: the UN's 2025 estimate is 6,009,169 people. The page shows that figure carried forward at about 3.7 more an hour. It is a projection, not a count, and the figure shown changes as time passes.
Not a count. This is the UN's 2025 estimate carried forward at the rate implied by the two most recent published years — arithmetic, not a measurement. Nobody counts a country continuously, and the true figure right now is unknown.
Where this number comes from
- Base figure
- 6,009,169 people
- For the year
- 2025 — a mid-year estimate, so it describes 1 July 2025
- Compared with
- 5,976,992 people in 2024
- Rate applied
- about 3.7 more an hour (32,198 a year)
- How that rate was found
- The difference between the 2024 and 2025 estimates, divided by the time between them. It is our arithmetic on two published figures — the source does not publish this rate.
- Carried forward
- 0 days beyond the base figure's date
- Source
- UN World Population Prospects and national statistical offices, compiled by the World Bank · source updated 2026-07-13
- The source's own definition
- The values shown are midyear estimates.
THIS NUMBER IS NOT A MEASUREMENT, AND ITS MOVEMENT IS NOT NEWS. No country counts its population continuously. A census is periodic, and every figure between censuses — including the estimate this starts from — is a projection. What you are watching is that projection's trend applied to the clock on your phone. It moves because time passes, not because anyone was born or died. Treat the digits beyond the first few as arithmetic rather than knowledge: the trend is real, the precision is not.
- Population
- 6,009,1692025
- GDP
- 462,526,660,4682025
- GDP per capita
- 76,9702025
- Life expectancy at birth
- 82.3 years2024
- Exports
- 70.1%2025
- Imports
- 59.1%2025
Compiled by the World Bank from: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wpp/, publisher: UN Population Division · source updated 2026-07-13 · each figure is dated because the most recent value was chosen by us, not by the source
In this country's own words
A motto IS recorded for this country, but not in any of its official languages. Aletheia does not quote a country in a language it does not use officially — the risk is quoting a mis-tagged entry as a nation's own words. That is our rule declining it, not the source failing to record one.
Also recorded in English.
World Heritage Sites
10 World Heritage Sitesshow all
- Jelling Heritage Site · inscribed 1994
- Roskilde Cathedral · inscribed 1995
- Kronborg Castle · inscribed 2000
- Wadden Sea · inscribed 2009 · shared with Germany, Netherlands
- Stevns Klint · inscribed 2014
- Christiansfeld · inscribed 2015 · shared with Germany, United Kingdom, United States
The name shown for this site was not chosen. Two or more records carry an inscription-level number for it and give different names, so we show one of them without claiming it is the right one. It is unchosen, not known to be wrong.
- Par force hunting landscape in North Zealand · inscribed 2015
- Viking Age Ring Fortresses · inscribed 2023
- World Heritage Site 1728 · inscribed 2025
- The Bony Fish Fossils of the Western Limfjord – Evolution and Climate Adaptation in the Earliest Eocene · inscribed 2026
Register from Wikidata (CC0) · in inscription order · links go to UNESCO
Emergency numbers
- 112
Shown in numerical order, which is not an order of priority.
Listed by the source, mostly from ITU-T E.129. We have not dialled these numbers, and where a service is named it is the source's description rather than ours.
Explore this country
Regions
First-level regions as GeoNames lists them, shown alphabetically · each page computes daylight at the region’s own coordinates
Currency
DKK
News coverage here is counted from Aletheia’s bundled source registry plus the sources the Host had admitted as of 2026-09-14. A source admitted since that date has not reached this page yet, so this is a floor rather than a total.