The British writer, philosopher, and traveler Mary Wollstonecraft long ago wrote of the Danes that they are "the happiest people in the world--I never saw any so well satisfied with their own situation." Her words still ring true. Denmark is blessed with Copenhagen, one of the world's great cities, with a prosperous, well-knit society, and a countryside of sweet loveliness.

• TOTAL AREA: 43,094 sq km

• LAND AREA: 42,394 sq km

• WATER AREA: 700 sq km

• POPULATION: 5,450,661

• RELIGIONS: Evangelical Lutheran 95%, other Protestant and Roman Catholic 3%, Muslim 2%

• LANGUAGES: Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic (an Inuit dialect), German (small minority)
  note: English is the predominant second language

• GOVERNMENT TYPE: Constitutional Monarchy

• CAPITAL CITY: Copenhagen

• OFFICIAL CURRENCY: Danish krone (DKK)

• TIME ZONE: GMT/UTC +1