ABSTRACT
Compared to the other Scandinavian countries, Denmark is small and without any great contrasts in its landscape. It has no mountain ranges or vast forests, no uninhabited areas or complex lake systems such as Finland, Norway and Sweden all possess. In area Denmark is less than 10 per cent the size of Sweden and about 12-13 per cent of Finland or Norway, although its population of five million is bigger than that of either of these two countries. Denmark is intensively cultivated with dwellings almost everywhere. No house is ever very far from its neighbour, but on the other hand most urban communities are fairly small. There are only about twenty urban agglomerations with more than 30,000 inhabitants, and of these one, the capital city in the eastern corner of the kingdom, accounts for more than one-third of the total urban population.
