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Kingdom of Denmark
Head of State: King Christian XI (of the House of Oldenburg) Premierminister: Hans Henrik Schmidt
Capital: Copenhagen
Other Large Cities: Altona, Kiel, Aarhus, Odense, Slesvig, Lauenburg, Stralsund, Aalborg, Esbjerg
Population: 11,012,201 (2001)
Population growth rate annual: 0,5 % (2001)
Official Languages: Nordic and German*
Ethnic Groups: Nordic (59%)** German (39%)*** others (2%) (2000)
Religions: Lutherans (80%), Catholic (6%), Jewish (3%) Other (11%) (1999)
Nationalitynoun: Dane(s) adjective: Danish
Currency: Rigsmark
GDP: 616,7 Billions £ (25th) (2001)
GDP real growth rate: 2,5% (2001)
GDP per capita: 56002 £ (11th) (2001)
*Most Danes are bilingual.
** 98% of all Danish Nordbos speak the Danish dialect of Nordic.
***93% of all Danish Germans is Low German speakers, 85% of them speak the Schleswigsch dialect (which is not mutual intelligibility with Standard German), while most of the rest speak Pomeranian dialects.