Denmark

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born

Niels Henrik David Bohr was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 7 October 1885, the second of three children of Christian Bohr, a professor of physiology at the University of Copenhagen, and his wife Ellen née Adler, who came from a wealthy Jewish banking family.

born and died

Jørgen Haagen Schmith

city

Copenhagen

clockwise around the Baltic Sea

Sweden

country of

flag

geography

Located in Northern Europe, Denmark consists of the northern part of the Jutland peninsula and an archipelago of 406 islands.

history

Denmark has been inhabited since around 12,500 BC and agriculture has been evident since 3900 BC.

learn about nordic culture

National Nordic Museum

location

nationality

Danish

OpenStreetMap

https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/50046

path on GitHub

https://github.com/davepinch/pinchy.cc/blob/master/content/topics/places/countries/d/denmark/denmark.md

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Ericameria nauseosa

tagged

December 31 – Queen Margrethe II of Denmark announces her abdication effective January 14, 2024, after 52 years on the throne.

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territory

Greenland

Wikidata

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q35

Wikipedia

Denmark (Wikipedia) Denmark (Danish: Danmark, pronounced [ˈtænmɑk]) is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It is the metropolitan part of and the most populous constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark, a constitutionally unitary state that includes the autonomous territories of the Faroe Islands and Greenland in the North Atlantic Ocean. Metropolitan Denmark is the southernmost of the Scandinavian countries, lying south-west and south (Bornholm and Ertholmene) of Sweden, south of Norway, and north of Germany, with which it shares a short border, Denmark’s only land border.