Denmark Issues - 2022

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

Disputes - international

Iceland, the UK, and Ireland dispute Denmark's claim that the Faroe Islands' continental shelf extends beyond 200 nm; sovereignty dispute with Canada over Hans Island in the Kennedy Channel between Ellesmere Island and Greenland; Denmark (Greenland) and Norway have made submissions to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) and Russia is collecting additional data to augment its 2001 CLCS submission

Refugees and internally displaced persons

refugees (country of origin): 19,833 (Syria), 5,634 (Eritrea) (mid-year 2021); 38,044 (Ukraine) (as of 6 December 2022)

stateless persons: 11,608 (mid-year 2021)

NOTE: The information regarding Denmark on this page is re-published from the 2022 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Denmark 2022 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Denmark 2022 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.