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Population
Denmark has an estimated population of 5.4 million. The majority of the population is of Scandinavian descent, with small groups of Inuit (from Greenland), Faroese, and immigrants. According to official statistics in 2003, immigrants made up 6.2% of the total population.
Capital Copenhagen
Languages
Danish is spoken in the entire country, although a small group near the German border also speaks German. Many Danes are fluent in English as well, particularly those in larger cities and the youth, who are taught English in school.
Religions
According to official statistics from January 2002, 84.3% of Danes are members of the state church, the Danish People"s Church (Den Danske Folkekirke), also known as the Church of Denmark, a form of Lutheranism; the rest are primarily of other Christian denominations and also about 4% are Muslims. For the last decade Danish People"s Church has seen a decline in the number of memberships.
Economy
This thoroughly modern market economy features high-tech agriculture, up-to-date small-scale and corporate industry, extensive government welfare measures, comfortable living standards, a stable currency, and high dependence on foreign trade. Denmark is a net exporter of food and energy and has a comfortable balance of payments surplus. The government has been very successful in meeting, and even exceeding, the economic convergence criteria for participating in the third phase (a common European currency) of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), but Denmark, in a September 2000 referendum, reconfirmed its decision not to join the 12 other EU members in the euro. Even so, the Danish currency remains pegged to the euro. Growth in 2004 was sluggish, yet above the scanty 0.3% of 2003. Because of high GDP per capita, welfare benefits, a low Gini index, and political stability, the Danish enjoys high living standards topped by no other nation. A major long-term issue will be the sharp decline in the ratio of workers to retirees.
Main Sporting Events and Achievement in Olympics
It is an official political objective that Danish sports should be for everyone, and sports activities are characterised by a parallel effort for the elite and the masses. The most popular sport in Denmark is football. Danes also enjoy jogging, bicycling, basketball, sailing, swimming, and other sports. In the country, it is said that boys typically prefer football, handball and badminton while girls generally prefer gymnastics, riding, handball and swimming.
In football, the Danish football team was crowned the European champions in 1992. The badminton players have been very successful in the international competitions, and it is probably the only country who could produce players to compete with the Indonesian and Chinese players. It has produced world-class badminton players in the like of Morten Frost (Fourth-time All England Champions), Poul-Erik Høyer Larsen (1996 Olympic Champions), Camilla Martin (World Champion, 1999), and many others.
The 2004 Athens Olympics was Denmark’s twenty-fourth participation of the Summer Olympics. The women handball team remarkably won the gold medal consecutively for the third time since winning it in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. In total, Demark won two gold and six bronze medals in Athens. In Sydney 2000, it won two gold, three silver and one bronze medals, while in Atlanta 1996, it won four gold, one silver and one bronze medals.
Culture
The Dane most well-known in foreign countries is probably Hans Christian Andersen, a writer mostly famous for such fairy tales as The Emperor"s New Clothes, The Little Mermaid, and The Ugly Duckling. Perhaps the most famous Dane is actually a mythical figure: Hamlet, the title character of William Shakespeare"s greatest play, which was set in a real castle (Kronborg) in Helsingør, north of Copenhagen.
In music, Danish music has long been dominated by a fiddle and accordion duo, much like its northern neighbors in Scandinavia. An important difference, however, is that Danish fiddlers almost always play in groups, and so there is no tradition of virtuoso fiddle players capable of solo performance; Danish bands also tend to feature the guitar more prominently than the other Nordic countries, especially in recent years.
The Danish folk scene did not come mainstream until the 1990s. The biggest catalyst for this change was the founding of several organizations to promote folk music, the most important of which was the Danish Folk Council.
丹麥
人口
丹麥人口據(jù)估計(jì)有五百四十萬(wàn)。 大部分人是斯堪的納維亞人的后裔，少數(shù)是紐因特人(來(lái)自格陵蘭島)、法羅人和外國(guó)移民。 根據(jù)2003年的官方統(tǒng)計(jì)數(shù)據(jù)，國(guó)外移民占全部人口的6.2%。
首都 哥本哈根
語(yǔ)言
丹麥語(yǔ)是全國(guó)通用的語(yǔ)言，盡管小部分在德國(guó)邊境附近的人也說(shuō)德語(yǔ)。許多在學(xué)校學(xué)過(guò)英語(yǔ)的丹麥人說(shuō)英語(yǔ)也很流利，尤其是生活在大城市的人和年輕人。
宗教信仰
根據(jù)2002年1月的官方統(tǒng)計(jì)數(shù)據(jù)，84.3%的丹麥人信仰國(guó)教丹麥人民教(Den Danske Folkekirk)，也被稱(chēng)為丹麥教，由路德教構(gòu)成;剩下的主要是其他的基督教教派和4%的穆斯林教。在過(guò)去的十年間，丹麥人民教的成員人數(shù)呈下降趨勢(shì)。
經(jīng)濟(jì)
現(xiàn)代市場(chǎng)經(jīng)濟(jì)是以高科技農(nóng)業(yè)、新型小規(guī)模合作產(chǎn)業(yè)、廣泛的政府福利政策、適宜的生活條件、穩(wěn)定的貨幣和高水平的對(duì)外貿(mào)易為特征的。丹麥?zhǔn)鞘称泛湍茉吹膬舫隹趪?guó)，有穩(wěn)定的收支平衡。政府，成功地達(dá)到甚至超過(guò)了歐洲貨幣組織(EMU)的第三階段活動(dòng)(統(tǒng)一歐洲貨幣)過(guò)程中經(jīng)濟(jì)集中的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)，但是在2000年9月的全民公決中，丹麥再次確認(rèn)不加入歐洲其他12國(guó)組成的歐盟。即使如此，丹麥貨幣還是和歐元相綁定的。2004年的經(jīng)濟(jì)增長(zhǎng)緩慢，但仍超過(guò)2003年0.3%。由于其高人均GDP，良好的福利，較低的基尼系數(shù)和穩(wěn)定的政治，丹麥?zhǔn)鞘澜缟仙钏阶罡叩膰?guó)家。一項(xiàng)主要的長(zhǎng)期政策將明顯降低退休工人的比率。
貨幣- 克朗
克朗(貨幣代碼DKK) 丹麥的貨幣。在還沒(méi)有實(shí)行歐元之前，克朗與馬克掛鉤。兌換比率是1 USD = 6.1 DKK。
主要的運(yùn)動(dòng)項(xiàng)目和奧運(yùn)上取得的成就
丹麥政府規(guī)定了正式的政治目標(biāo)，即體育必須人人參與，體育運(yùn)動(dòng)的特色是精英和民眾共同努力。 在丹麥最受歡迎的體育運(yùn)動(dòng)是足球。丹麥人也喜歡慢跑、騎自行車(chē)、籃球、航海、游泳及其他體育運(yùn)動(dòng)。 在這個(gè)國(guó)家，男孩子通常喜歡足球、手球和羽毛球，而女孩子則普遍喜歡體操、馬術(shù)、手球和游泳。
足球方面，丹麥足球隊(duì)在1992年的歐洲冠軍杯中奪冠。 該國(guó)的羽毛球選手在國(guó)際比賽中表現(xiàn)出色，可能是唯一擁有可以與印度尼西亞和中國(guó)選手匹敵的羽毛球選手的國(guó)家。該國(guó)培養(yǎng)了許多世界級(jí)的羽毛球選手，如莫登?弗羅斯特(Morten Frost)(四次全英羽毛球賽冠軍)Poul-Erik Høyer Larsen(1996年奧運(yùn)會(huì)冠軍)，卡米拉?馬汀(Camilla Martin)(1999年世界冠軍)等。
2004年雅典奧運(yùn)會(huì)是丹麥第二十四次參加夏季奧運(yùn)會(huì)。 值得一提的是，女子手球隊(duì)贏(yíng)得了金牌，那是自1996年亞特蘭大奧運(yùn)會(huì)以來(lái)連續(xù)獲得的第三個(gè)奧運(yùn)冠軍。 在雅典奧運(yùn)會(huì)上，丹麥一共獲得了兩枚金牌和六枚銅牌。在2000年悉尼奧運(yùn)會(huì)上，丹麥獲得了兩枚金牌，三枚銀牌和一枚銅牌，而1996年亞特蘭大奧運(yùn)會(huì)上，共獲得四枚金牌，一枚銀牌和一枚銅牌。
文化
最蜚聲海外的丹麥人可能就是安徒生(Hans Christian Andersen)，他是一名非常著名的作家，寫(xiě)過(guò)《皇帝的新裝》、《小美人魚(yú)》、《丑小鴨》等童話(huà)。也許最有名的丹麥人卻是一個(gè)虛構(gòu)的人物：哈姆雷特――莎士比亞(William Shakespeare)最偉大的戲劇中的人物，它發(fā)生在哥本哈根北部的Helsingør一個(gè)真實(shí)的城堡(Kronborg)中。
音樂(lè)方面，很長(zhǎng)一段時(shí)期丹麥音樂(lè)以小提琴和風(fēng)琴二重唱占主導(dǎo)地位，相似于其斯堪的那維亞(Scandinavia)半島上的北方鄰國(guó)。然而，一個(gè)重要的不同之處是，丹麥的小提琴家通常是團(tuán)體演出，因?yàn)槟抢餂](méi)有傳統(tǒng)的欣賞小提琴獨(dú)奏的鑒賞家。尤其在最近幾年，丹麥樂(lè)隊(duì)和其他北歐國(guó)家相比，呈現(xiàn)出更多以吉他為主的演奏趨勢(shì)。
丹麥的民間藝術(shù)直到上世紀(jì)90年代才成為主流。促成這一變化的最大的原因是幾個(gè)促進(jìn)民間音樂(lè)組織的建立，其中起到最大作用的是丹麥民間藝術(shù)委員會(huì)。
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