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2/ First up, the country Denmark is just one part of the Kingdom of Denmark, or "The Danish Realm", which also includes Greenland and the Faroe Islands

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_Realm

3/ Greenland uses the Danish postal code system while Faroe Islands does not

#geoweirdness

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_codes_in_Denmark

4/ As we covered in our Canada thread a month ago, last year we had the exciting news that Canada and the Kingdom of Denmark resolved their dispute over remote Hans Island, ending the "Whisky War" in which the armies of each country left bottle of alcohol for each other.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisky_War

As a result, Greenland now shares a land border with Canada.

#geoweirdness

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-canada-and-denmark-reach-settlement-over-disputed-arctic-island/

https://en.osm.town/@opencage/109970277198086308

5/ Denmark's other land border is with Germany, and was set via plebiscite in 1920 thus finally resolving "the Schleswig-Holstein question", a repeated source of conflict in 19th century

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schleswig%E2%80%93Holstein_question

Today there is an officially recognised German-speaking minority in Denmark, and an equivalent Danish-speaking minority in Germany:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Minderheit_in_D%C3%A4nemark

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_minority_of_Southern_Schleswig

6/ One could also argue Denmark added a land border with Sweden with the completion of the Øresund Bridge in 2000, connecting Copenhagen and Malmö across the Øresund strait

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%98resund_Bridge

7/ Denmark includes the island of Bornholm, farther east in the Baltic. It is closer to Sweden , Germany , and Poland than the rest of Denmark, and was briefly occupied by the Soviets at the end of of WWII

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bornholm

8/ The Danish Realm was once much larger and included colonies in India, West Africa, and the Caribbean

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_India

9/ What is today known as the US Virgin Islands was once the "Danish West Indies" before being sold to the United States in 1917

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_the_Danish_West_Indies

10/ Turning back to the present, Denmark is part of the European Union , but the Faroe Islands and Greenland are not.

Denmark is however unique amongst EU countries in that it does not have to adopt the Euro as its currency

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmark_and_the_euro