The 2010 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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СКАЧАТЬ in 1949 and the EEC (now the EU) in 1973. However, the country has opted out of certain elements of the European Union's Maastricht Treaty, including the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), European defense cooperation, and issues concerning certain justice and home affairs.

      Geography ::Denmark

      Location:

      Northern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, on a peninsula north of Germany (Jutland); also includes two major islands (Sjaelland and Fyn)

      Geographic coordinates:

      56 00 N, 10 00 E

      Map references:

      Europe

      Area:

      total: 43,094 sq km country comparison to the world: 133 land: 42,434 sq km

      water: 660 sq km

      note: includes the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea and the rest of metropolitan Denmark (the Jutland Peninsula, and the major islands of Sjaelland and Fyn), but excludes the Faroe Islands and Greenland

      Area - comparative:

      slightly less than twice the size of Massachusetts

      Land boundaries:

      total: 68 km

      border countries: Germany 68 km

      Coastline:

      7,314 km

      Maritime claims:

      territorial sea: 12 nm

      contiguous zone: 24 nm

      exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

      continental shelf: 200 m depth or to the depth of exploitation

      Climate:

      temperate; humid and overcast; mild, windy winters and cool summers

      Terrain:

      low and flat to gently rolling plains

      Elevation extremes:

      lowest point: Lammefjord −7 m

      highest point: Mollehoj/Ejer Bavnehoj 171 m

      Natural resources:

      petroleum, natural gas, fish, salt, limestone, chalk, stone, gravel and sand

      Land use:

      arable land: 52.59%

      permanent crops: 0.19%

      other: 47.22% (2005)

      Irrigated land:

      4,490 sq km (2003)

      Total renewable water resources:

      6.1 cu km (2003)

      Freshwater withdrawal (domestic/industrial/agricultural):

      total: 0.67 cu km/yr (32%/26%/42%)

      per capita: 123 cu m/yr (2002)

      Natural hazards:

      flooding is a threat in some areas of the country (e.g., parts of Jutland, along the southern coast of the island of Lolland) that are protected from the sea by a system of dikes

      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

      Environment - international agreements:

      party to: Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air

       Pollution-Persistent Organic Pollutants, Air Pollution-Sulfur 85,

       Air Pollution-Sulfur 94, Air Pollution-Volatile Organic Compounds,

       Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto

       Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental

       Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping,

       Marine Life Conservation, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution,

       Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, Whaling

      signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements

      Geography - note:

      controls Danish Straits (Skagerrak and Kattegat) linking Baltic and North Seas; about one-quarter of the population lives in greater Copenhagen

      People ::Denmark

      Population:

      5,515,575 (July 2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 109

      Age structure:

      0–14 years: 18.1% (male 511,882/female 485,782)

      15–64 years: 65.8% (male 1,817,800/female 1,798,964)

      65 years and over: 16.1% (male 387,142/female 498,940) (2010 est.)

      Median age:

      total: 40.7 years

      male: 39.8 years

      female: 41.6 years (2010 est.)

      Population growth rate:

      0.267% (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 175

      Birth rate:

      10.4 births/1,000 population (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 186

      Death rate:

      10.19 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 53

      Net migration rate:

      2.47 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 33

      Urbanization:

      urban population: 87% of total population (2008)

      rate of urbanization: 0.5% annual rate of change (2005–10 est.)

      Sex ratio:

      at birth: 1.055 male(s)/female

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