DENMARK

Official language: Danish

The official language in Denmark is Danish,
which belongs to the North Germanic
language group along with Icelandic,
Faroese, Norwegian and Swedish. It uses the
Latin alphabet with the additional letters æ,
ø and å.
Official website: www.denmark.dk

Politics in Denmark
Denmark is a constitutional monarchy.
Queen Margrethe II has no real political
power, and the parliament, Folketinget, is
the country’s highest authority. Denmark is
a member of the EU, but has retained the
krone as its currency. It is also a member of
NATO.

 National day: 5 June (Constitution Day,

5 June 1849
 Form of government: Constitutional
monarchy
 Parliament: Folketinget (179 seats)
 EU membership: Since 1 January 1973
 NATO membership: Since 4 April
1949
 Head of state: Queen Margrethe II
 Head of government (since June 2019):
Population in 2021: 5,840,045 Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen
Area: 43,561km² (Social Democrat)
Capital: Copenhagen
Currency: Danish krona
Three biggest cities: Geography
1. Copenhagen
Denmark is the smallest of the five nations
2. Aarhus
in the Nordic Region, with a total land mass
3. Odense approximately the same size as Finnmark
Denmark, the most southerly country in the County in Norway. On the other hand,
Nordic Region, is a small, densely populated Denmark has plenty of good arable land,
country, made up of a large number of and makes the most of this natural resource.
islands skirted by lovely beaches.  Total area: 43,561 km²
 Land area: 42,962 km²
 Arable land, market gardens and
orchards: 25,329 km²
 Forests and plantations: 5,294 km²
 Lakes and rivers: 671 km²
 Largest lake: Arresø – 39.5 km²
 Highest point: Yding Skovhøj - 172.5
m
 Coastline: 7,314 km

Climate
Denmark has a temperate climate, with frost
and occasional snow in the winter. The
average temperature is around 16°C in the
summer and 0.5°C in the winter.
Precipitation is at its highest in September,
October and November and lowest in
February and April.
 Average temperature in Copenhagen
(2020): 10.7°C (maximum 32.4°C,
minimum -4.7°C)
 Mean precipitation (1961-1990): 712
mm
 Precipitation in Copenhagen (2006):
823 mm

Agriculture land in
Denmark
Over this period, the agricultural land area
used by farms fluctuated slightly with a
peak in 2014, reaching approximately 2.65
million hectares.Total agricultural land area
used for farming in Denmark from 2011 to
2021 (in 1,000 hectares)
Resources:
 Farming in Denmark
 Agriculture, horticulture and forestry
Environmental
organizations
NOAH
 NOAH’s Organizational Structure
 History: The Founding of the Danish
Environmental Movement NOAH
 Projects:
ₒ Protecting the Baltic Sea from
untreated wastewater spillages
during flood events in urban areas
ₒ NOAH's Uranium Group
ₒ Receipt of ordinary waste
Government about environment
 Danish Nature Policy
The Danish Society for Nature
Conservation
 Largest nature conservation and
environmental organisation in Denmark
 History: The Society was founded on 21
April 1911 at the Palace Hotel in
Copenhagen as the 'Society for Nature
Conservation (Forening for
Naturfredning). For many years, its
focus was on promoting public access to
beaches and forests, particularly to the
Øresund Strait and the Jægersborg Deer
Park.
 Energy policy (in Danish)
 Projects:
ₒ DN strengthens the fight for marine
nature with a large grant from the
VELUX FOUNDATION
Environmental issues in Influential individuals
Denmark  Dan Jannik Jørgensen
Dan Jannik Jørgensen is the Minister of
 Denmark: Environmental Issues,
Climate and Energy and Public Utilities in
Policies and Clean Technology
Denmark. He is responsible for national
The agricultural industry, which primarily efforts to prevent climate change. Through
cultivates barley, occupies more than 60% visionary green leadership, Dan Jørgensen is
of Denmark's total area; therefore, the use of currently leading efforts to achieve the
fertilizers and pesticides is a major issue Danish Government's target to reduce
facing the country. In addition to affecting Danish greenhouse gas emissions by 70
the soil, agricultural pesticides and percent by 2030.
fertilizers from Danish farms have been
leaching into rivers and waterways, thereby
causing both freshwater and marine
environments to become more vulnerable to
the harmful effects of these chemicals.
 Denmark confirms Nord Stream
'explosions' caused damage
 Environment - current issues
Air pollution, principally from vehicle and
power plant emissions; nitrogen and
phosphorus pollution of the North Sea;
drinking and surface water becoming
polluted from animal wastes and pesticides;
much of country's household and industrial
waste is recycled.
 Environment (a website with statistics
on environmental problems all over the
world)