The world is huge and it has many different cultures and people within it and we hear on a few facts
Have had the pleasure to talk about and learn about so many countries from India to Canada to Sweden and within learning about those places
we found so many great stories and
Accomplishments for those nations and its people but today on FTD facts
we are jumping a little bit further into the world and talking about a
Fascinating country a country that may not be big in size
But its heart is easily measurable to the rest of the world and that is the country of Denmark
Yo guys what's going on Dave Walter here and welcome to FTD facts the channel where we?
When we talk about different cultures and people from all around the world and today?
We are looking at the great country known as Denmark. Which is a nordic country now before I get in this video guys
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So let's get into talking about Denmark guys because it's a really cool
Fascinating country one that I've been wanting to talk about for a while as a matter of fact when I was a kid I used
To always think that Denmark was like a restaurant, but then I found out it was a country and I was like oh, God
maybe I should never tell two danish that so the first thing we got to start talking about is its
Population and it's a pretty big country for its size being home to approximately
Five million seven hundred and Forty-eight thousand seven hundred and sixty nine people at least that's estimated for
2017 - this estimate it is listed as the one hundredth and twelfth largest country due to
Population and all these people are spread across a unique landscape that is approximately
forty
2931 Square kilometres which means for every square kilometre you go you'll see approximately 133 point four people
I really hope you don't see point four people because that would just be disgusting
They'd be cut into like almost half now keep in mind a good portion of Denmark's size of land can't be accurately
Calculated and this is due to the fact that because it's in an archipelago
There's so many times that tides come in and wash away islands
And this is because although it is a beautiful place
it is quite flat it has an average elevation of
34 meters Above Sea level which sets denmark at fourth when it comes to countries with the lowest average elevation
Other countries like Maldives tarr the Netherlands are ahead of it
So you might be wondering are there a lot of mountains in Denmark well?
Unfortunately not the highest point is maho a sitting at a hundred and seventy point eight five meters now its height was
Disputed for quite a long time until they set the record straight in 2005 and the area itself is marked the Millstone
Which is the remains of an old mill that used to once sit there until about?
1917 and although Denmark is a really cool and interesting country
What is unique about it besides the fact that it's flat and it's got really cool culture well
let's talk about its economy because currently it sits at the
37th largest export economy in the entire world they export a total of eighty five point eight billion dollars a year
now when it comes to imports it ranks at
34th having a pretty balanced import export ratio and its imports equal eighty five point two billion dollars
Which is just shy its exports and out of all these exports ten percent are packaged medicaments which
28% of those medicaments go to the United States
they also export these to germany and sweden and some of the
Imports at four point six percent are cars and three point five being refined petroleum
However if we're going to talk about Denmark and its import exports one that we should mention is pigs
they had a lot of them as a matter of fact pygmy equals three percent with also human an animal blood coming in at
2.8 percent
I never knew that Country's really
Exported blood that's kind of a new thing for me and the reason this is mentioned is because in Denmark
There are more pigs than there are people as a matter of fact they have an estimated
24 to 28 million pigs
Which is much more than their like 5 million people the reason for all these pigs is because Denmark is the leading
Exporter of pork in the entire world and the country is home to about
5,000 pig farms which may be in the United states. There's more but as for exporting
They are the ones that actually are the highest and as for the manure produced from these pigs
They say they could fill up to 90,000 swimming pools of it each year
I don't know if that's olympic sized swimming pools
But either way that's something that I just wouldn't want to go swimming in now one thing. That's most important about Denmark
Is its monarchy it is considered the oldest continuous monarchy in Europe it began in
935 with Gormley Old being considered the real first king of Denmark however some historians are like. No, that's not actually true
It's probably actually his son
Who's named Son Harvard?
Bluetooth who pretty much won all of Denmark bringing them all together and although there are many different family names that have changed throughout history
Within the Royal monarchy we should probably mention
Margaret the first or as the danish pronounce it margaret the first who was the first female monarch for the country now
She was the founder of the Kalmar union and her reign was from 1387 to 1412 now one thing
That was really interesting about her is she had a really interesting policy within the government
And that was that the government would give 500 marks to any woman that was
Violated or abused during the wars with Denmark and sweden and let's not confuse her with
Margaret II who is you know part of the monarchy now earlier when I talked about it being?
Archipelago Denmark is a country that is not only on a peninsula called Cutland, but it's also a land that is home to
433 named Islands and one thing that I found interesting out of these
433 Islands about 70 of them are uninhabited
I didn't think there was a lot of that in Northern Europe and out of all these islands and its peninsula known as ute land
they have about
13 heritage sites now eight of them are considered un Sco or unesco Zones and what we should mention is the yelling mounds runic stones?
In church this was the first unesco Zone aim Denmark being inscribed in 1994 it is located in a yelling Jael
Municipality and although it might seem like they're just two stones
they were erected by grum the old for his wife Sarah and many people think of this site as being the beginning of Denmark as
a nation and one thing to add although these rocks are outside currently the unesco officials came in and surveyed the area and
Discovered that these rocks were being damaged because of erosion so they're going to put them in an indoor facility
So there you have it guys that is us talking about the great nation of Denmark if you guys know any facts that we missed
or read perhaps
Maybe got some of these wrong let us know down there in the comments below because we always like to follow up on our videos
And we like to do part twos threes fours and fives because you can't summarize the greatness of a country in just one simple video
My name is did well guys and as usual here on FTD facts
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This is Denmark a country that does have a lot to offer
A great nation with amazing history that has been important to the formation of Europe a place where the people in Culture work hard to
Be proud of themselves. This is the country people and culture of Denmark home to many, but a stranger no longer to us
What so once again?
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also
if you like Denmark
You might want to check out our videos on other nordic countries such as well like it's sweden for example
A lot of people like this one and sweden has some really cool things to learn about butter than that
We'll see you in the next video cool. Bye