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DENMARK AREA: 43,094 sq km (16,638 sq miles). POPULATION: 5,275,000 (1997). POPULATION DENSITY: 122.4 per sq km. CAPITAL: Copenhagen. Population: 1,362,264 (1996). GEOGRAPHY: Denmark is the smallest Scandinavian country, consisting of the Jutland peninsula, north of Germany, and over 400 islands of various sizes, some inhabited and linked to the mainland by ferry or bridge. The landscape consists mainly of low-lying, fertile countryside broken by beech woods, small lakes and fjords. Greenland and the Faroe Islands are also under the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Denmark, although both have home rule. The Faroe Islands are a group of 18 islands in the north Atlantic inhabited by a population of 43,382 (1995) whose history dates back to the Viking period. Fishing and sheep farming are the two most important occupations. Tórshavn (population 15,272), the capital of the Faroes, is served by direct flights from Copenhagen. During the summer months, there are direct flights from Aberdeen and Glasgow.
GOVERNMENT:
Constitutional monarchy. Head of State: Queen
Margarethe II since 1972. LANGUAGE: The official language is Danish. Many Danes also speak English, German and French. RELIGION: Predominantly Evangelical Lutheran with a small Roman Catholic minority. TIME: GMT + 1 (GMT + 2 from last Sunday in March to Saturday before last Sunday in October).
List of contact parliamentarians involved in the parliamentary
dimension of the Council of Europe campaign to combat violence against
women, including domestic violence (2006 – 2008) appointed by national
parliaments; M. Morten Østergaard,
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