Maps of Denmark: regions, cities, relief and population

DENMARK · PRINTABLE MAPS

Five printable maps of Denmark: regions and cities, location in Europe, two views of the relief and population. PDFs, images and sources are available below.

Our five maps have English labels. Maps from other publishers retain their original language.

Regions and cities PDF Shaded relief PDF

Regions, cities and location in Europe

Denmark: 5 reference territorial units.

Carte-monde.org · November 2026

Regions and main cities

The 5 reference territorial units are numbered and named in the key, with selected cities and the capital.

A4 landscape PDF · PNG 2 400 px · CC BY 4.0

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Carte-monde.org · November 2026

Location in Europe

The country is highlighted within a simplified European frame; territories outside this frame are not shown.

A4 landscape PDF · PNG 2 400 px · CC BY 4.0

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Two maps to understand the relief

Choose shaded relief for an overview, or elevation classes for school use.

Carte-monde.org · November 2026

Shaded relief, cities and rivers

To identify major landforms, cities and the river network. The natural colours are not an elevation scale.

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Raster base map, cities, rivers and lakes: Natural Earth, public domain. Other boundary credits and licences are retained in the pack. Cartographic work CC BY 4.0; ODbL-derived data retains its licence. No topographic accuracy is claimed.

Territory, data and selection of names

Denmark: 5 reference territorial units.

Natural Earth II shaded relief background, 10 selected cities. No named waterway from this global dataset was selected within this map extent.

The colours represent idealised natural cover; they do not correspond to elevation classes. This global background remains generalised, particularly for small states.

Carte-monde.org · November 2026

Simplified elevations

Smoothed relief, elevation colours, main mountain ranges, plains and watercourses. Educational map at national scale.

A4 landscape PDF · PNG 2 400 px · CC BY 4.0

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Population density: 2020 estimates

Carte-monde.org · November 2026

Population density — 2020 estimates

Estimated residential population in 2020, on a source grid of 1 km². Inhabitants/km² classes are shared across countries; no 2025 projection. Cells without data remain transparent and do not represent zero population.

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The data represents estimated residential population in 2020, on a 1 km² source grid. The document’s creation date does not change this reference year.

The five in-house maps in one pack

Regions and cities, location in Europe, simplified elevations, 2020 population density and shaded relief: five A4 PDFs, their PNGs and SVGs, with sources and licences.

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Previous edition packs

The four maps in one pack

Four A4 PDFs, their PNGs and SVGs, with full notes. Terrain and density use an embedded image background; text and linework remain vector-based.

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Find the old maps of Denmark

Previously published maps remain accessible at their original URLs, with the collection’s text and credits.

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Choose and print a map

Regions and cities show how the territory is organized; the location map places the country; terrain shows the main natural regions; density shows population distribution. Print the in-house PDFs in A4 landscape with “Fit to page”. Insets have their own scales.

For exercises: six blank base maps of Denmark.

Sources, reference years and reuse

Administrative boundaries: geoBoundaries / geoBoundaries, Web Vectors Map. European Denmark, excluding Greenland and the Faroe Islands — Geographic reference year: 2021. The files’ edition date does not mean that all boundaries have been updated. Boundary source and terms. Primary license: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). The geometries used and credits are included in the pack; derived databases under ODbL remain under ODbL.

Neighbouring area, cities and hydrography: Natural Earth 5.1.1, public domain, generalised boundaries not for cadastral use.

Relief: SRTM15+ / Tozer et al. (2019), reference publication, via GMT earth_relief_02m derived from SRTM15+V2.7. Grid smoothed to two arc minutes, suitable for a national overview, without topographic precision.

Population: Schiavina et al. (2023), GHS-POP R2023A, 2020 residential estimates, © European Union / JRC, CC BY 4.0. The 1 km² Mollweide cells are expressed in inhabitants/km². Methodology: Pesaresi et al. (2024).

The four new maps: created by Carte-monde.org, November 2026, under CC BY 4.0. Cite authors, sources and reference years, and indicate adaptations. Additional and older maps retain their own rights.

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Previous versions: maps and files preserved

These files remain available at their original URLs. For corrected maps, use the main links above. Each edition retains its credits and date.

Other maps: sources and reuse

Reference maps by external authors. Each document retains its licence, credits and date. “View map” links open the document on Commons; ZIP buttons provide access to the files kept in this collection.

Denmark physical map.svg

Author: Urutseg · CC0 · Original file page, sources and licence

Date stated by the source: 15 March 2011. The data date may differ from the document date; check its key.

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To reuse a CC BY map, cite its authors, source and licence and indicate any changes. Adaptations of a CC BY-SA map retain the same or a compatible licence. CC0 documents may be reused freely; retaining the source makes them easier to identify. These rights do not make all administrative boundaries current.

Previous collection — original files preserved

Online Maps of Denmark
general map of Denmark	Denmark political map
Relief map of Denmark

Original French files

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