Denmark

Things you should know about Denmark

Denmark

The capital of Denmark is Copenhagen. It is on the eastern side of the island Zealand, and it stretches across parts of Amager. It´s the city In Denmark with the most people living. In the center of Copenhagen is living over 1.200.000 people, and if we counts the metropolitans with, there are almost 2.000.000 people living there. Copenhagen became the capital of Denmark in the start of the 15th century. Copenhagen is the cultural, economic and governmentally center of Denmark, and are world known for its sights.

The capital

Facts about Denmark:

- Denmark’s capital is Copenhagen – København (in danish).

- The Danish flag, “Dannebrog”, is the oldest national flag in the world.

- Denmark came up with Lego.

- We have special vocals, such as æ, ø and å, which are hard to pronounce in other languages than Danish.

- We are raised with a law called the law of Jante, which means that we should never believe that we are any better than everybody else.

- We are announced the happiest country in the world.

- We are known for drinking a lot, especially as teenagers.

- We are one of the only countries using “rugbrød”, which is very ruff bread with a huge amount of fibers.

- We are known for the Vikings who lived here many years ago.

- We are known for Michael Laudrup, who was a great football player. He has played for both Barcelona and Real Madrid. He is currently head coach in the English club, Swansea.

It’s a Danish business, who produces insulin. They are the biggest business in Denmark; they’re 2 times bigger than A. P. Møller – Mærsk. They produce insulin to people with diabetes. They have a lot of arrangements for example Novo Nordisk Sports camps, which is a camp for children in the summer holiday.

Christmas in Denmark:In Denmark we celebrate Christmas eve the 24th of December. We are going to church in the evening. We eat duck, roast pork, browned potatoes, red cabbage, potatoes and brown sauce. After that the adults lay the presents under the Christmas tree and then we sing and dance around the Christmas tree. While we open our presents, we get some chocolate and other kinds of candy. In the following days, the family gathers to celebrate the Christmas by eating a lot of Christmas food and others.

H. C. AndersenH. C. Andersen was a Danish poet and author. His fairytales are world famous. The fairy tales that he wrote are like no others written before or since. He has written 168 tales. We can just mention one of the most famous; “The ugly duckling”, “The Swineherd” and “The Nightingale”.

Hans Christian Andersen was born in Odense on April 2, 1805. When he was 14 he decided to go to Copenhagen. Few months after his confirmation, he leaved Odense and went to Copenhagen. When he was 17, H. C. Andersen came to the attention of Chancellor Collin. Collin had read one of H. C. Andersen’s plays and saw that the youth had talent

Our royal family is very famous. They represent us in the world and visit many countries every year. The queen of Denmark is 73 years. Her husband is the Prince Consort Henrik. They have 2 children; Crown Prince Frederik and Prince Joachim. Frederik und Joachim have both wife and children.

Royal Family

We got a lot of Danish people who are famous and world known. We got a lot of actors, singers and sportspeople. Example we got Caroline Wozniacki who has been the world’s best tennis player and are very popular in many other countries. She has had the best place on a ranking of all the women tennis players. We also got a very successful actor named Mads Mikkelsen, who are international and have gotten a price for the best male actor in a big Film Festival in a City called Cannes in France. And then we also have a lot of very successful singers who also are world known. Here is some of the most world known Danish songs:

Famous Danish people:

Barbie Girl with Aqua.  Sunshine Reggae with Laid Back.  From Paris to Berlin with Infernal.  The Spell with Alfabeat.  Fly on the Wings of Love with Brødrene Olsen. Only Teardrops with Emmelie de Forest.  

There are some of the songs that are from the Melody Grand Prix, because Denmark actually won three times, in 1963 with “Dansevise (Dancesong)” sung of Grethe og Jørgen Ingmann, in 2000 with “Fly On The Wings Of Love” sung of Brødrene Olsen, and in 2013 with “Only Teardrops” sung of Emmelie De Forest. There is also a lot of other Danish famous people, but there are so many that I can´t tell them all so I just took some examples of the most famous people.