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About Denmark

 

Info about The Little Mermaid

The Little Mermaid traveling away from Denmark.                       

First trip away from Langelinie

She travels to the world exhibition in Shanghai on 1 April 2010.
There she will be in the Danish pavilion, which is one among the 200 exhibits at Expo 2010, which starts on 1 May 2010 and ending six months later.

She returns home to Denmark again on 30 November 2010

This is the first time The Little Mermaid leave Langelinie which she has served since 1913 - if you look away from the times she has been carved head.

The little mermaid is. Executed by sculptor Edvard Eriksen, who was inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales.

 

Welcome to Denmark


Denmark - or Danmark (pronounced [dænmɑɡ̊]) – the southernmost of the Nordic countries.

 
The population of Denmark is 5.5 million, spread over 43.000 km² (16,640 sq mi).

 
Denmark consists of a large peninsula, Jutland (Jylland), the large islands Funen (Fyn) and Seeland (Sjælland) and a lot of smaller islands (443 in total). The capital is Copenhagen, on the island Seeland, where you can find the University of Copenhagen and our Faculty of Life Sciences.


The Climate is in the temperate zone, the summers are relatively cool, and so the mean temperature in August is 15,5 °C. Denmark has approximately 121 days of rain during the year.  But don’t be afraid of the weather;  in summer you can enjoy long sunny days, with sunrise at 4 a.m. and sunset at 10 p.m.


Denmark is ranked 10th for the greenest countries to live in worldwide, and Copenhagen is one of the most enviromentally friendly capitals. The main means of transport in the city is the bicycle. Especially in Copenhagen, you will see bicycle stands everywhere, and next to the usual roads for cars there are special bike-roads and bike traffic-lights.


The Kingdom of Denmark is a constitutional monarchy, under the Queen of Denmark, Margarethe II, while legislative authority is vested in the Prime Minister and the Danish parliament cojointly. The current Prime Minister is Lars Løkke Rasmussen.


The timezone for Denmark is CET, or UTC+1, GMT+1. The traffic is on the right side of the street, the official language is Danish and the currency is Danish Kroner (DKK).

Photos from Denmark and from IVSA congress 2010

Photoalbum with photos from Denmark and from the 59th IVSA congress is online.
Album can be found here
. http://ivsa-dk-2010.ivsadenmark.dk

Links

 

 Further information:

 

www.ku.dk

University of Copenhagen.


www.life.ku.dk

Faculty of Life Sciences.


www.denmark.dk

The official website of Denmark.


Visit Denmark

The official travel guide to Denmark.

Visit Chopenhagen

The official turism site of Copenhagen.

Copenhagen airport

Copenhagen Airport.

www.currencysource.com

Exchange rates.


DSB

DSB, travel by train in Denmark.

Movia

S-trains and Busses.


Chopenhagen Metro

Metro; the Copenhagen Underground.

Danhostel

Cheap accomodation ( if you arrive early ).

 Worldtravelguide.net

World travel guide - Denmark Key Facts

DMI

Weather Forecast, here you have access

to a limited number of forecasts.

Roskilde festival

Roskilde festival, warm up from 27 june.


 







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