Key data about Denmark
Denmark is about 43,000 km² in size and has a coastline of almost 7,400 km as well as more than 400 islands. In the metropolitan area of the capital Copenhagen live about 1.4 million of the total 5.9 million inhabitants of Denmark and only three other cities have more than 100,000 inhabitants: Aarhus, Aalborg and Odense.
Denmark is a constitutional monarchy with a history of more than a thousand years, making it the oldest in Europe. The country has a representative parliamentary system of government with a head of government (prime minister) and the head of state Queen Margrethe II. The Kingdom of Denmark also includes two autonomous territories in the Atlantic Ocean that are not members of the European Union: the Faroe Islands and Greenland. Denmark itself has been a member of the EU (or previously the EEC) since 1973. Its most important trading partner is Germany.
Denmark is a founding member of NATO. Currency is the Danish Krone.
Rotary has a network of approximately 9,000 active members in Denmark, spread across 252 clubs in five districts, living the Rotary values. Danish Rotarians address each other as comrades.
A current map of the clubs can be found here: https://www.rotary.dk/en/be-member-what-rotary/google-map-med-rotaryklubber.
If you are interested in partnerships with Danish Rotary clubs, the country committee will be happy to assist you!
Gorm Casper
Update 2025
Following the successful establishment of the ICC Estonia, the Baltic Sea Forum worked for a long time with a specially established working group to develop the Danish contact point into a German-Danish country committee. By joining forces, this project could be realized.
The previous head of the contact point, Gorm Casper, has become the new chair of this country committee.
On 27 January, the ICC Denmark-Germany was chartered with 6 Danish and 9 German members, which was sealed in a solemn, dignified ceremony in Flensburg with the participation of almost 50 Rotarians through the signatures and outstanding speeches of the governors and national coordinators of both countries. The Letter of Intent emphasizes the importance of intercultural dialogue between Rotarians, Rotary clubs and the respective lead districts 1461 and 1890. Friendship, peace and respect between Denmark and Germany are to be promoted and radicalisation combated.