- Denmark (in Danish, Danmark), officially realm of Denmark, country of the northwest of Europe, lined in the North by Skagerrak, a strait between the North Sea and Norway, in the East by Kattegat and resund, in the South by the Baltic Sea, the strait of Fehmarn and Germany, on the West by the North Sea. Denmark possesses two territories in the Atlantic Ocean the North: Faeroes and Greenland. These lands, which became Danish ownership in the end of XIV-th century, benefit from a status of autonomy, respectively since 1948 and 1979. Denmark strictly speaking has a surface of 43 094 km2. The capital of the country is Copenhagen
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