Area: 16,833 sq. mi. / 43,094 sq. km

Population (1999 est.): 5,356,845 (average annual rate of natural increase: .06%);
birth rate: 11.6/1000;
infant mortality rate: 5.1/1000;
density per sq. mi.: 322

Languages: Danish, Faeroese, Greenlandic (an Inuit dialect),
small German-speaking minority

Capital and largest city (1992): Copenhagen, 1,339,395

Other large cities (1992): Århus, 204,139; Odense, 140,886; Ålborg, 114,970