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Danish people

Danish people or Danes are the nation and ethnic group that is born in Denmark, and who speak Danish. There is also a Danish minority in Southern Schleswig.

Danish people
danskere
Total population
c. 7 million
Regions with significant populations
 Denmark 4,996,980[1]
File:Flag of the United States.svg United States1,430,897[2]
 Canada200,035[3]
 Brazil140,000
22x20px Norway52,510[4]
 Australia50,413[5]
 Germany50,000[6]
 Sweden42,602[7]
 Argentina13,000[8]
 United Kingdom18,493 (Danish born only)[9]
22x20px Spain8,944[10]
File:Flag of France.svg France7,000[11]
 Switzerland4.251[12]
 New Zealand3,507[13]
 Faroe Islands2,956
 Iceland2,802[14]
 Ireland809[15]
 Austria806[16]
22x20px Japan500[17]
 Lebanon400[18]
 South Africa4,000
File:Flag of Lesotho.svg Lesotho4,200
 Namibia3,900
Languages
Danish
Related languages include Norwegian, Swedish, Faroese, Icelandic, and to a lesser extent, all Germanic languages.
Religion
Predominantly Lutheran;
small minorities of other faiths; secular.
File:DanmarkSydslesvigSkaaneland.png
Today's Denmark and the former Danish provinces Southern Schleswig, Skåne, Halland and Blekinge.

The first mention of Danes within the Danish territory is on the Jelling Rune Stone which mentions how Harald Bluetooth converted the Danes to Christianity in the 10th century.[19] Denmark has been continuously inhabited since this period and although much cultural and ethnic influence and immigration from all over the world has entered Denmark since then, Danes tend to see themselves as ethnic descendents of the early Danes mentioned in the sources.

Demography

According to the Danish statistics institute, approximately five million people of Danish origin live in Denmark today. In this context "Danish origin" is defined as being born to parents who are Danish citizens, and the number is arrived at by subtracting from the total population (5,564,249) those who are born abroad to non-citizens who are themselves born abroad (called immigrants), and those who are born in Denmark to parents who are either immigrants or who have foreign citizenship.[1]

Danish citizenship is granted to anyone who has one parent of Danish citizenship, whether the child is born in or outside of Denmark. Citizens of Greenland and the Faroe islands are considered Danish citizens for all purposes. Those who do not achieve Danish citizenship by birth (or by Adoption) can only receive Danish citizenship through decree of law. Danish citizenship is automatically lost if one applies for foreign citizenship or when a 22 year old child of Danish citizens has never lived in Denmark and has not formally applied for Danish citizenship.

Danish People Media

  • Map of the Danish Diaspora in the World.svg

    Map of the Danish people around the world. (The map might include people with Danish ancestry or citizenship)*  Denmark*

  • Holger danske.jpg

    Ogier the Dane (Holger Danske) at Kronborg Castle is an important national icon from the Viking age

  • Denmark-Norway in 1780.svg

    Map of Denmark–Norway, c. 1780

  • Consuladodanes.jpg

    Danish consulate in Coruña, (Spain).

Related pages

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Danmarks Statistik (pdf, written in English) reports that metropolitan Denmark, per 1 April 2011, has 4.996.980 inhabitants of Danish origin.
  2. ↑ The 2000 American census reports that the United States, in the 2000 census, has 1,430,897 inhabitants of Danish ancestry.
  3. ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
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  6. ↑ National minorities Archived 2008-06-24 at the Wayback Machine at the Federal Foreign Office of Germany
  7. ↑ Statistics Sweden
  8. ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
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  10. ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
  11. ↑ http://www.udvandrerne.dk/JLKM/Udvandre.nsf/Uniq/688507Reference Archived 2016-03-21 at the Wayback Machine Danes in France
  12. ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
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  15. ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
  16. ↑ Ties between Austria and Denmark Archived 2011-11-13 at the Wayback Machine Laut den letzten Zählungen sind 806 Dänen in Österreich (2001)
  17. ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
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