Capital: Copenhagen.
Area: total: 43,094 sq km (excluding the Faroe Islands and Greenland).
Population: 5,413,392 (July 2004 est.).
Economic status: first world; a modern market economy featuring high-tech agriculture, comfortable living standards, a stable currency, sturdy small-scale and corporate industry, and a dependence on foreign trade.
Climate: temperate; humid, overcast; clement, windy winters and cool summers.
Infant mortality rate: total: 4.63 deaths/1,000 births.
Average life expectancy at birth: total population: 77.44; male: 75.17; female: 79.83.
Ethnic makeup: Scandinavian, Inuit, Faroese, German, Turkish, Iranian, Somali.
Religious makeup: Evangelical Lutheran 95%, other Protestant and Roman Catholic 3%, Muslim 2%.
Languages: Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic (an Inuit dialect), German (minority). English is the principal second language.
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