Denmark
in Northern Europe
Europe
Germany
Country Quickfacts
- Currency and Currency Code:
- Krone - DKK
- Spoken languages:
- Danish, English, Faroese, German
- Local electricity:
- 230 V - 50 Hz (plugs: C, E, F, K)
- Mobile phone / cellular frequencies (MHz):
- 900 MHz, 1800 MHz, 3G, 4G
- ISO 2-Letter code:
- DK
- Internet top level domain:
- .dk
- Country phone prefix:
- +45
- Local Time (capital):
- Timezone:
- UTC/GMT offset: hours
Map of Danish Unesco Heritage Sites
Click any of the markers above to learn more about the corresponding heritage site and learn more about Denmark in Europe. The list below is ordered by name. The oldest site is Jelling Mounds, Runic Stones and Church. On the list since 1994. The youngest site is Stevns Klint. On the list since 2014.
| Name | Since |
|---|---|
| Ilulissat Icefjord Located on the west coast of Greenland, 250 km north of the Arctic Circle, Greenland’s Ilulissat Icefjord (40,240 ha) is the sea mouth of Sermeq Kujalleq, one of the few glaciers through which the G... |
2004 |
| Jelling Mounds, Runic Stones and Church The Jelling burial mounds and one of the runic stones are striking examples of pagan Nordic culture, while the other runic stone and the church illustrate the Christianization of the Danish people tow... |
1994 |
| Kronborg Castle Located on a strategically important site commanding the Sund, the stretch of water between Denmark and Sweden, the Royal castle of Kronborg at Helsingør (Elsinore) is of immense symbolic value to th... |
2000 |
| Roskilde Cathedral Built in the 12th and 13th centuries, this was Scandinavia's first Gothic cathedral to be built of brick and it encouraged the spread of this style throughout northern Europe. It has been the mausoleu... |
1995 |
| Stevns Klint This geological site comprises a 15 km-long fossil-rich coastal cliff, offering exceptional evidence of the impact of the Chicxulub meteorite that crashed into the planet at the end of the Cretaceous... |
2014 |
| Wadden Sea This is an extension of the Dutch and German Wadden Sea site, inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2009. The Wadden Sea is the largest unbroken system of intertidal sand and mud flats in the world.... |
2009 |