Danish kingdom

Danish Realm

Rigsfællesskabet (Danish)^a
Ríkisfelagsskapurin (Faroese)
Naalagaaffeqatigiit (Greenlandic)


Flag	Royal Coat of Arms

Location of Denmark, the Faroe Islands, and Greenland

Clockwise from bottom right (sizes not to scale):
Maps of Denmark (Northern Europe), Greenland (North Atlantic and Arctic) and the Faroe Islands (North Atlantic).

Official languages

Countries

Government

Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy

• Monarch

Margrethe II

• Prime Minister of Denmark

Lars Løkke Rasmussen

• Premier of the Faroe Islands

Aksel V. Johannesen

• Premier of Greenland

Kim Kielsen

Legislature

Folketing
Løgting
Inatsisartut

Establishment

• Faroese Home Rule

24 March 1948

• Greenlandic Home Rule Act

29 November 1978(effective 1 May 1979)

• Faroese takeover act (overtagelsesloven)

29 July 2005

• Greenlandic self rule

21 June 2009

Area

• Denmark

42,915.7 km² (16,569.8 sq mi) (130th)

• Greenland

2,166,086 km² (836,330 sq mi)

• Faroe Islands

1,399 km² (540.16 sq mi)

Population

• July 2015 estimate

5,678,348 (113th)

• Greenland

56,370

• Faroe Islands

49,709

• Density (Denmark)

131/km² (339.3/sq mi)

GDP (PPP)

2015 estimate

• Total

$255.866 billion (52nd)

• Per capita

$45,451 (19th)

GDP (nominal)

2015 estimate

• Total

$297.359 billion (34th)

• Per capita

$52,822 (6th)

Gini (2012)

28.1
low

HDI (2013)

0.900
very high · 10th

Currency

Danish krone^b (DKK)

Time zone

CET (UTC+1)^a
WET (UTC)
EGT (UTC-1)
WGT (UTC-3)

• Summer (DST)

CEST (UTC+2)
WEST (UTC+1)
EGST (UTC)
WGST (UTC-2)

Date format

DD/MM/YYYY

Drives on the

right

Calling code

+45 +298 +299

Internet TLD

.dk .fo .gl

Literally translated as "the Commonwealth of the Realm"
In the Faroe Islands the currency has a separate design and is known as the Faroese króna, but is not a separate currency.
^ See time in Denmark for details about laws governing time zones in the Unity of the Realm.

The term Danish Realm (Danish: Det Danske Rige) refers to the relationship between Denmark proper, the Faroe Islands and Greenland—three countries constituting the Kingdom of Denmark.

The legal nature of the Kingdom of Denmark is fundamentally one of a unitary sovereign state. The Faroe Islands and Greenland have been part of the Crown of Denmark since 1397 (de jure) when the Kalmar Union was ratified, and part of the Kingdom of Denmark since 1814 (de facto). However, due to their separate historical and cultural identities, these parts of the Realm now have an extensive type of self-government and have assumed legislative and administrative responsibility in a substantial number of fields.

Legal matters in The Danish Realm are subject to the Danish Constitution . Beginning in 1953, state law issues within The Danish Realm has been governed by The Unity of the Realm (Danish: Rigsenheden). A less formal name for The Unity of the Realm is "the of the Realm". In 1978, The Unity of The Realm was for the first time unofficially referred to as rigsfællesskabet. The name caught on and since the 1990s, both The Unity of The Realm and The Danish Realm itself has increasingly been referred to as simply rigsfællesskabet (Faroese: ríkisfelagsskapurin; Greenlandic: naalagaaffeqatigiit) in daily parlance.

The Danish Constitution stipulates that the foreign and security interests for all parts of the Danish Realm are the responsibility of the Danish government. The Faroes received home rule in 1948 and Greenland did so in 1979. In 2005, the Faroes received a self-government arrangement, and in 2009 Greenland received "self rule", thus leaving the Danish government with virtually no influence over Greenlandic internal affairs.

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