Danish Realm
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Location of Denmark, the Faroe Islands, and Greenland
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Clockwise from bottom right (sizes not to scale):
Maps of Denmark (Northern Europe), Greenland (North Atlantic and Arctic) and the Faroe Islands (North Atlantic). |
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Official languages | |||||
Countries | |||||
Government | Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy | ||||
• Monarch
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Margrethe II | ||||
Lars Løkke Rasmussen | |||||
Aksel V. Johannesen | |||||
Kim Kielsen | |||||
Legislature |
Folketing Løgting Inatsisartut |
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Establishment | |||||
• Faroese Home Rule
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24 March 1948 | ||||
• Greenlandic Home Rule Act
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29 November 1978(effective 1 May 1979) | ||||
• Faroese takeover act (overtagelsesloven)
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29 July 2005 | ||||
• Greenlandic self rule
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21 June 2009 | ||||
Area | |||||
• Denmark
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42,915.7 km2 (16,569.8 sq mi) (130rd) | ||||
• Greenland
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2,166,086 km2 (836,330 sq mi) | ||||
• Faroe Islands
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1,399 km2 (540.16 sq mi) | ||||
Population | |||||
• July 2015 estimate
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5,678,348 (113th) | ||||
• Greenland
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56,370 | ||||
• Faroe Islands
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49,709 | ||||
• Density (Denmark)
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131/km2 (339.3/sq mi) | ||||
GDP (PPP) | 2015 estimate | ||||
• Total
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$255.866 billion (52nd) | ||||
• Per capita
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$45,451 (19th) | ||||
GDP (nominal) | 2015 estimate | ||||
• Total
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$297.359 billion (34th) | ||||
• Per capita
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$52,822 (6th) | ||||
Gini (2012) |
28.1 low |
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HDI (2013) |
0.900 very high · 10th |
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Currency | Danish kroneb (DKK) | ||||
Time zone |
CET (UTC+1)a WET (UTC) EGT (UTC-1) WGT (UTC-3) |
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• Summer (DST)
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CEST (UTC+2) WEST (UTC+1) EGST (UTC) WGST (UTC-2) |
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Date format | DD/MM/YYYY | ||||
Drives on the | right | ||||
Calling code | +45 +298 +299 | ||||
Internet TLD | .dk .fo .gl | ||||
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The Danish Realm (Danish: Det Danske Rige) comprise Denmark, The Faroe Islands and Greenland. Beginning in 1953, State law issues in The Danish Realm has been governed by The Unity of the Realm (Danish: rigsfællesskabet; Faroese: ríkisfelagsskapurin; Greenlandic: naalagaaffeqatigiit). Other names for this constitutional relationship, is Rigsenheden, officially adopted since 1978 for the State law issues between Denmark and Greenand specifically. A less formally name for The Unity of the Realm is "the of the Realm". Since the 1990s, The Danish Realm has increasingly been referred to as simply Rigsfællesskabet in daily parlance.
The 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.
The Danish Constitution stipulates that the foreign and security interests for all parts of the Kingdom of Denmark 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.