Standard Danish ( rigsdansk ) is the language based on dialects spoken in and around the capital, Copenhagen.

More than 25 % of all Danish speakers live in the metropolitan area of the capital and most government agencies, institutions and major businesses keep their main offices in Copenhagen, something that has resulted in a very homogeneous national speech norm.

The present economy consists of a big public sector and comprehensive foreign trade, which has resulted in an economy with periods of strong growth, considerable inflation, unemployment problems and extreme dependence on capital inflow from Denmark and use of outside, mainly Danish, skilled labor.

Between 1912 and 1971 the name of the town was officially spelled Hälsingborg ( rather like the region of Hälsingland but unlike neighbouring Danish Helsingør and the Finnish capital Helsingfors ( Helsinki )).

The ships were scuttled there in the 11th century to block a navigation channel, thus protecting the city, which was then the Danish capital, from seaborne assault.

Tórshavn (; Danish: Thorshavn ) is the capital and largest town of the Faroe Islands.

Dutch merchants in Copenhagen petitioned King Christian IV for permission to establish a West Indian trading company in 1622 but, by the time an eight-year monopoly on trade with the West Indies, Virginia, Brazil, and Guinea was granted on 25 January 1625, the failure of the Danish East India and Iceland Companies and the beginning of Danish involvement in the Thirty Years ' War dried up any interested capital.

The Swedish navy was able to outmaneuver the Danish Sound blockade and deploy an army near the Danish capital, Copenhagen.

Sten Sture died in March, but some strongholds, including the Swedish capital Stockholm, were still able to withstand the Danish forces.

Godthaab became the seat of government for the Danish colony of South Greenland, while Godhavn ( modern Qeqertarsuaq ) was the capital of North Greenland until 1940 when the administration was unified in Godthaab.

The Øresund Bridge ( which includes a 3 km tunnel ) between Danish capital Copenhagen and the largest city of Scania, Malmö was inaugurated on 1 July 2000 by Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden.

The Øresund Bridge is the longest combined road and rail bridge in Europe, and connects two major metropolitan areas: those of the Danish capital city Copenhagen and the major Swedish city Malmö.

In contrast to his brother, King Haakon VII of Norway, and Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, who went into exile during the Nazi occupation of their countries, Christian X remained in his capital throughout the occupation of Denmark, being to the Danish people a visible symbol of the national cause ( although it is important to note that Norway's King Haakon VII was forced to escape the invading Germans after refusing to accept a Nazi-friendly puppet regime ).

The Danish capital, Copenhagen, is partly situated on Amager, which is connected to the much larger island of Zealand by five bridges.

It was an adaptation of written Danish, which was commonly used since the past union with Denmark, to the Dano-Norwegian koiné spoken by the Norwegian urban elite, especially in the capital.

It was held in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark after the Danish victory the previous year.

Other important trot racing arenas in Scandinavia are Åby outside Göteborg, Mantorp, Axevalla, Bergsåker, Boden ( almost at the polar circle ) and Charlottenlund in Danish capital Copenhagen.

Shortly after declaring the coastal area a colony, the British moved the colonial capital from Cape Coast to the former Danish castle at Christiansborg in Accra.

Christiania, also known as Freetown Christiania () is a self-proclaimed autonomous neighbourhood of about 850 residents, covering in the borough of Christianshavn in the Danish capital Copenhagen.

Copenhagen, the capital, is home to many famous sites and attractions, including Tivoli Gardens, Amalienborg Palace ( home of the Danish monarchy ), Christiansborg Palace, Copenhagen Cathedral, Rosenborg Castle, Opera House, Frederik's Church ( Marble Church ), Thorvaldsens Museum, Rundetårn, Nyhavn and the Little Mermaid sculpture.

DSB runs a commuter rail system, called S-train, in the area around the Danish capital, Copenhagen, that connects the different areas and suburbs in the greater metropolitan area.

Egede established the Bergen Greenland Company () with $ 9, 000 in capital from Bergen merchants, $ 200 from the Danish king, and a $ 300 annual grant from the Royal Mission College.

* Bujumbura, Burundi – June 10, 1998 – One Danish aid worker killed by car thieves in capital.

It is believed that the name of the capital of Estonia, Tallinn, came into existence after the battle.

The northwestern territory was part of the gateway and buffer zone ( with Estonia ) to and from the imperial Russian capital Petrograd ( Saint Petersburg ), via the Gulf of Finland towards the Kronstadt naval base and the Karelian Isthmus.

Tallinn ( or, ) is the capital and largest city of Estonia.

Tallinn became the capital of an independent Estonia.

** Youth riots in the capital of the Soviet Republic of Estonia are quickly forced down.

* Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, is first marked on the world map by Al Idrisi.

* July 18 – The city of Tartu, capital of the Bishopric of Dorpat, now in Estonia, surrenders to Russia.

Along with Tallinn, the capital city of Estonia, Turku was designated the European Capital of Culture for 2011.

* Tallinn, the capital city of Estonia

During the war, Peter I of Russia had occupied all Swedish possessions on the eastern Baltic coast: Swedish Ingria, where the soon to be new Russian capital of St. Petersburg was begun in 1703, Swedish Estonia and Swedish Livonia, which had capitulated in 1710, and Finland.

There are about 2 scheduled buses a day between Tallinn ( the capital of Estonia ) and Kärdla.

It lies at the crossroads of several important roads, 100 km to the north-east from Riga, the capital of Latvia, and 50 km south of the border with Estonia.

Viljandi is sometimes called the cultural capital of Estonia, partly due to the Viljandi Culture Academy being located there.

The distance of Suure-Jaani from Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, is 143 km.

Narva is situated in the eastern extreme point of Estonia, 200 km to the east from the Estonian capital Tallinn and 130 km southwest from Saint Petersburg.

Pikk Hermann or Tall Hermann () is a tower of the Toompea Castle, on Toompea hill in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia.

Toompea ( from, " Cathedral Hill ") is a limestone hill in the central part of the city of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia.

Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, substitutes for Guellen.

Saue is located at a very favourable position near Tallinn, the capital of Estonia.

Savisaar was the Mayor of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, from 2001 to fall 2004, when he was forced to step down after a vote of no confidence.

Administratively it is part of the city of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia and is a sub district of the Kesklinn ( City center ) district.

Kass was born in Tallinn, Estonia and grew up in Mäo village, near Paide, the capital of Järva County.

* In Estonia, the mayor of the capital ( Tallinn ), was named Lord Mayor ( Ülemlinnapea ) from 1938 to 1940.

There is no separate capital gains tax in Estonia.

However, children of mixed Russian and Estonian parents living in Tallinn ( the capital city of Estonia ), or mixed Russian and Latvian parents living in Riga ( the capital of Latvia ), or mixed Russian and Lithuanian parents living in Vilnius ( the capital of Lithuania ) most often chose as their own nationality that of the titular nationality of their republic – not Russian.