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Denmark - Peninsula fancifully situated on the Map of West Europe , it looks like Denmark somehow turned to Sweden. In the sea near Danish coast spread about 400 islands.

A loads of interesting facts on Denmark exist and you can find them below:

  • Did you know, that Denmark is the oldest monarchy of west and until 19th sentry Denmark controlled whole northern Europe and was very important power! Also you can easily remember Vikings , in old days they had conquered England and Normand. Very long time ago Denmark owned Iceland, Sweden, and Norway but in 20th century Denmark has lost all this territory
    -The slogan : "Beauty in small", has been invented in order to justify modern claims of the country.
  • The Vikings lived from 800 to 1200 in the period of time known as the Viking Age. Originally , they come not only from Denmark but also from Norway and Sweden.
    Viking Gift Toy
  • The Vikings were good sailors and most fearsome warriors of this period. Once the French capital, Paris was seized. The French king didn't dare to fight against them. He decided to pay money so Viking would live France.This money now are called Dannegeld.
    Later this word spread into another cultures.
  • The Danes haven't been a threat to anyone for hundreds of years.
  • Greenland and the Faroe Islands have been a part of Denmark since the 1700s.
  • Faroe Islands used to belong to Norway, but not any more - Norway lost the islands after the King of Norway has lost drunken poker game with King of Denmark.
  • For now Faroe Islands is part of the Kingdom of Denmark .The Faroes have been self-governing since 1948 and they refuse to become a member of European Union. This allows them ignore strict Euro laws regarding slaughter of protected mammals.

More interesting facts on Denmark listed below:

  • In 1989 Denmark become the very first European country to legalize same-sex marriages and offer for gay partnership the same rights as for heterosexual couples.
  • Most Famous Danes is writer Hans Christian Andersen , whose fairy tales have been translated into more languages then any other book in the whole world ( except off course the Bible ).
  • Lars Ulrich ( One of founders of Metallica ) was born in Denmark. This facts is interesting, because in whole history only two famous performers of heavy metal were ever born in Denmark: King Diamond and Ulrich himself.
  • Stroget in Copenhagen is one of the longest shopping street in whole Europe.
  • Copenhagen's Tivoli amusement park is one of biggest and popular in Europe.Actually it is one of the oldest amusement parks in the world.
    Once Walt Disney visited Tivoli and he was so exited with it that later he decided to make something similar. As the result he built famous Disneyland
  • Danish Pastries

    Carlsberg Beer Logo

    Denmark has a lot of famous companies like:
    Carlsberg and Tuborg ( beer), Royal Copenhagen (porcelain ), Danish company Danfoss , Arla, Danish masters a well known for their furniture design. Also widely known are Danish sweet dainty- Danish Pastry.
  • Denmark produce a lots of stuff. Some of the goods well known in the world. In 1847 Denmark started to export to England wonderful Danish bacon. People in England liked it very much.
    Today Denmark export bacon worldwide.
    "Lurpak" butter is probably the best known brand of butter in the world. You can buy it in more then 100 countries.

More interesting facts on Denmark follow below:

Sydney Opera House

  • In fact the famous Sail-like Opera House
    in Sydney, Australia was designed by Dansh Architect J�rn Utzon in 1957.
    Later he designed the Melli Bank in Teheran and Kuwaiti parlament.
  • Among other things Danish people have invented the widely known children playthings LEGO
    Lego started to produce toys in 1932. The really interesting fact , for the more than sixty years was sold over 320 billion units of Lego bricks all around the Globe.
    If we make very simple calculation we found out that every human being in the world is owner of about 56 Lego bricks.

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the men there like to pour chocolate milk on their hotdogs and eat it.. they have stands that sell it.

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King Christian X was the favorite king of the Danes.He didn't have a bodyguard,entire Denmark is his bodyguard.

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Denmark is the first country to have banned pineapple officially. It was seen as offensive to other raes and it was a sin in Hinduism.

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Denmark came up with Lego

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Iceland once was under Danish rule.

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Denmark was the first European country to abolish slavery.



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Denmark has the oldest national flag in the world but the england flag is older!!

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Highest pt. is 568 ft.
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denmark is one of the oldest monachary in western europe.

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Danish men marry the oldest of all Europeans - at 32 years old in average.
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Kronberg Castle  star
Kronberg castle is a tourist attraction and is still used today

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Denmark's flags is the opposite colors of Switzerlands!

French Fries  Not rated yet
Instead of ketchup, they tend to dip their french fries into mayonnaise

Grimsby an English Danish town  Not rated yet
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Bacon Trade in Denmark  Not rated yet
Danish kings supported the bacon trade

Mountains in Denmark  Not rated yet
There are no high mountains in Denmark!

Denmark - Highest Mountains
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Porn in Denmark  Not rated yet
Denmark was the first country to legalize pornography in 1969.

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denmark has 5 million people, but a lot immigtad from turkey and monuca! but no reason why!! xxx

Best shoes ever   Not rated yet
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Hans Christian Andersen  Not rated yet
i'm getting tired of people saying Hans Christian Anderson, when his name is Hans Christian Andersen!

Tivoli amusement park  Not rated yet
Denmark has the oldest amusement park in the world, Tivoli Gardens, which attracts more than 4 mill. people yearly.

Snowglobe Museum, Denmark  Not rated yet
Denamrk is home of the largest snowglobe museum in the world, located in Tavivi. Many tourists find much excitement, and shaking is allowed (on some)!

Sport events  Not rated yet
Denmark is the smallest nation to ever survive more than 5 years in a row in the best icehockey world championship group.

Denmark won the European Championship ...

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Hans Christian Oersted discovered Aluminum in Denmark in 1825. Aluminum is the third most abundent element in the earth's crust. Also, it is the most abundent ...

The mermaid statue  Not rated yet
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Miss Pip  Not rated yet
did you know that Copenhagen has a statue of Hans Christian Anderson's 'Little Mermaid'?

Denmark  Not rated yet
Denmark's capital city is Copenhagen

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2010 world cup Denmark won 2-1 against Cameroon

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The vikings had a bath once a month :-)

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Denmark looks like a person :-)

List of Fun Facts about Denmark  Not rated yet
major inport and export is machinery

capital is copenhagen

landmass is 16,637 sq mi

population is 1,400,000

language is danish

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Grave Diggers  Not rated yet
Denmark is so small that when your buried you would be dug up a few years after your death for someone else.

happiest place  Not rated yet
Denmark is the hapiest country in the world.

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Laura Valentiner is danish

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