Denmark is a Nordic country and a sovereign state. The southernmost of the Scandinavian nations, it is south-west of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany.
The Kingdom of Denmark also comprises two autonomous constituent countries in the North Atlantic Ocean: the Faroe Islands and Greenland. Denmark proper consists of a peninsula, Jutland, and an archipelago of 443 named islands, with the largest being Zealand, Funen and the North Jutlandic Island.
Denmark is considered to be one of the most economically and socially developed countries in the world. Danes enjoy a high standard of living and the country ranks highly in some metrics of national performance, including education, health care, protection of civil liberties, democratic governance, prosperity and human development.
Denmark ranks as having the world’s highest social mobility, a high level of income equality, is the country with the lowest perceived level of corruption in the world, the fifth-most developed in the world, has one of the world’s highest per capita incomes, and one of the world’s highest personal income tax rates.
Here below is a fascinating photo collection that captured everyday life of Denmark from the 1960s.
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| Copenhagen, Denmark, 1960 |
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| Copenhagen, Denmark, 1960 |
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| Copenhagen, 1961 |
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| Copenhagen, 1961 |
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| Helsingor, 1961 |
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