CAPITAL: Copenhagen

GOVERNMENT: Constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy

POPULATION: 5,500,510 (July 2010 estimate)

AREA: 16,640 square miles (slightly less than twice the size of Massachusetts)

ISLANDS: Denmark includes more than 400 islands but only about 70 are inhabited.

LANGUAGE: Danish, with English as the predominant second language

CLIMATE: TEMPERATE; humid and overcast; mild, windy winters and cool summers

TERRAIN: low and flat to gently rolling plainsSOURCE: CIA World Factbook