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Population
Denmark has an estimated population of 5.4 million. The majority of the population is of Scandinavian descent, with small groups of Inuit (from Greenland), Faroese, and immigrants. According to official statistics in 2003, immigrants made up 6.2% of the total population.
Capital Copenhagen
Languages
Danish is spoken in the entire country, although a small group near the German border also speaks German. Many Danes are fluent in English as well, particularly those in larger cities and the youth, who are taught English in school.
Religions
According to official statistics from January 2002, 84.3% of Danes are members of the state church, the Danish People"s Church (Den Danske Folkekirke), also known as the Church of Denmark, a form of Lutheranism; the rest are primarily of other Christian denominations and also about 4% are Muslims. For the last decade Danish People"s Church has seen a decline in the number of memberships.
Economy
This thoroughly modern market economy features high-tech agriculture, up-to-date small-scale and corporate industry, extensive government welfare measures, comfortable living standards, a stable currency, and high dependence on foreign trade. Denmark is a net exporter of food and energy and has a comfortable balance of payments surplus. The government has been very successful in meeting, and even exceeding, the economic convergence criteria for participating in the third phase (a common European currency) of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), but Denmark, in a September 2000 referendum, reconfirmed its decision not to join the 12 other EU members in the euro. Even so, the Danish currency remains pegged to the euro. Growth in 2004 was sluggish, yet above the scanty 0.3% of 2003. Because of high GDP per capita, welfare benefits, a low Gini index, and political stability, the Danish enjoys high living standards topped by no other nation. A major long-term issue will be the sharp decline in the ratio of workers to retirees.
Main Sporting Events and Achievement in Olympics
It is an official political objective that Danish sports should be for everyone, and sports activities are characterised by a parallel effort for the elite and the masses. The most popular sport in Denmark is football. Danes also enjoy jogging, bicycling, basketball, sailing, swimming, and other sports. In the country, it is said that boys typically prefer football, handball and badminton while girls generally prefer gymnastics, riding, handball and swimming.
In football, the Danish football team was crowned the European champions in 1992. The badminton players have been very successful in the international competitions, and it is probably the only country who could produce players to compete with the Indonesian and Chinese players. It has produced world-class badminton players in the like of Morten Frost (Fourth-time All England Champions), Poul-Erik Høyer Larsen (1996 Olympic Champions), Camilla Martin (World Champion, 1999), and many others.
The 2004 Athens Olympics was Denmark’s twenty-fourth participation of the Summer Olympics. The women handball team remarkably won the gold medal consecutively for the third time since winning it in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. In total, Demark won two gold and six bronze medals in Athens. In Sydney 2000, it won two gold, three silver and one bronze medals, while in Atlanta 1996, it won four gold, one silver and one bronze medals.
Culture
The Dane most well-known in foreign countries is probably Hans Christian Andersen, a writer mostly famous for such fairy tales as The Emperor"s New Clothes, The Little Mermaid, and The Ugly Duckling. Perhaps the most famous Dane is actually a mythical figure: Hamlet, the title character of William Shakespeare"s greatest play, which was set in a real castle (Kronborg) in Helsingør, north of Copenhagen.
In music, Danish music has long been dominated by a fiddle and accordion duo, much like its northern neighbors in Scandinavia. An important difference, however, is that Danish fiddlers almost always play in groups, and so there is no tradition of virtuoso fiddle players capable of solo performance; Danish bands also tend to feature the guitar more prominently than the other Nordic countries, especially in recent years.
The Danish folk scene did not come mainstream until the 1990s. The biggest catalyst for this change was the founding of several organizations to promote folk music, the most important of which was the Danish Folk Council.
丹麥
人口
丹麥人口據估計有五百四十萬。 大部分人是斯堪的納維亞人的後裔，少數是紐因特人(來自格陵蘭島)、法羅人和外國移民。 根據2003年的官方統計資料，國外移民佔全部人口的6.2%。
首都 哥本哈根
語言
丹麥語是全國通用的語言，儘管小部分在德國邊境附近的人也說德語。許多在學校學過英語的丹麥人說英語也很流利，尤其是生活在大城市的人和年輕人。
宗教信仰
根據2002年1月的官方統計資料，84.3%的丹麥人信仰國教丹麥人民教(Den Danske Folkekirk)，也被稱為丹麥教，由路德教構成;剩下的主要是其他的基督教教派和4%的穆斯林教。在過去的十年間，丹麥人民教的成員人數呈下降趨勢。
經濟
現代市場經濟是以高科技農業、新型小規模合作產業、廣泛的政府福利政策、適宜的生活條件、穩定的貨幣和高水平的對外貿易為特徵的。丹麥是食品和能源的淨出口國，有穩定的收支平衡。政府，成功地達到甚至超過了歐洲貨幣組織(EMU)的第三階段活動(統一歐洲貨幣)過程中經濟集中的標準，但是在2000年9月的全民公決中，丹麥再次確認不加入歐洲其他12國組成的歐盟。即使如此，丹麥貨幣還是和歐元相繫結的。2004年的`經濟增長緩慢，但仍超過2003年0.3%。由於其高人均GDP，良好的福利，較低的基尼係數和穩定的政治，丹麥是世界上生活水平最高的國家。一項主要的長期政策將明顯降低退休工人的比率。
貨幣- 克朗
克朗(貨幣程式碼DKK) 丹麥的貨幣。在還沒有實行歐元之前，克朗與馬克掛鉤。兌換比率是1 USD = 6.1 DKK。
主要的運動專案和奧運上取得的成就
丹麥政府規定了正式的政治目標，即體育必須人人蔘與，體育運動的特色是精英和民眾共同努力。 在丹麥最受歡迎的體育運動是足球。丹麥人也喜歡慢跑、騎自行車、籃球、航海、游泳及其他體育運動。 在這個國家，男孩子通常喜歡足球、手球和羽毛球，而女孩子則普遍喜歡體操、馬術、手球和游泳。
足球方面，丹麥足球隊在1992年的歐洲冠軍盃中奪冠。 該國的羽毛球選手在國際比賽中表現出色，可能是唯一擁有可以與印度尼西亞和中國選手匹敵的羽毛球選手的國家。該國培養了許多世界級的羽毛球選手，如莫登?弗羅斯特(Morten Frost)(四次全英羽毛球賽冠軍)Poul-Erik Høyer Larsen(1996年奧運會冠軍)，卡米拉?馬汀(Camilla Martin)(1999年世界冠軍)等。
2004年雅典奧運會是丹麥第二十四次參加夏季奧運會。 值得一提的是，女子手球隊贏得了金牌，那是自1996年亞特蘭大奧運會以來連續獲得的第三個奧運冠軍。 在雅典奧運會上，丹麥一共獲得了兩枚金牌和六枚銅牌。在2000年悉尼奧運會上，丹麥獲得了兩枚金牌，三枚銀牌和一枚銅牌，而1996年亞特蘭大奧運會上，共獲得四枚金牌，一枚銀牌和一枚銅牌。
文化
最蜚聲海外的丹麥人可能就是安徒生(Hans Christian Andersen)，他是一名非常著名的作家，寫過《皇帝的新裝》、《小美人魚》、《醜小鴨》等童話。也許最有名的丹麥人卻是一個虛構的人物：哈姆雷特――莎士比亞(William Shakespeare)最偉大的戲劇中的人物，它發生在哥本哈根北部的Helsingør一個真實的城堡(Kronborg)中。
音樂方面，很長一段時期丹麥音樂以小提琴和風琴二重唱占主導地位，相似於其斯堪的那維亞(Scandinavia)半島上的北方鄰國。然而，一個重要的不同之處是，丹麥的小提琴家通常是團體演出，因為那裡沒有傳統的欣賞小提琴獨奏的鑑賞家。尤其在最近幾年，丹麥樂隊和其他北歐國家相比，呈現出更多以吉他為主的演奏趨勢。
丹麥的民間藝術直到上世紀90年代才成為主流。促成這一變化的最大的原因是幾個促進民間音樂組織的建立，其中起到最大作用的是丹麥民間藝術委員會。
