Denmark is Nordic country and sovereign state as well as the southernmost of the Scandinavian nations. It lies southwest of Sweden and South of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark is considered to be one of the most economically and socially developed countries in the world.

The standard of living is ranked highly and in some metrics of national performance, including education, health care, protection of civil liberties, democratic governance, prosperity and human development. The Country ranks as having the world’s highest social mobility, high level of income equality, the country with the lowest perceived level of corruption in the world, the fifth most developed country in the world and has the one of the world’s highest per capita incomes.