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Denmark

The Danish flag, a white cross on red, is said to have fallen from the sky in 1219 during a battle in what is now Estonia. The other Nordic countries later copied its off-centre cross.

Five things to know about Denmark

In Geodar these are the five clues to this country, and it counts as one of the easy countries. The game asks the hardest clue first. Here the easiest comes first.

  1. Where it is. It's Denmark, the peninsula and islands north of Germany, southwest of Sweden. See Denmark on a map.
  2. Lego was invented here, Greenland is part of its kingdom, and its capital is Copenhagen.
  3. Hans Christian Andersen, who wrote The Little Mermaid and The Ugly Duckling, was born here.
  4. Bluetooth is named after one of its Viking kings, Harald Bluetooth.
  5. Its flag is the oldest national flag still in use. Legend says it fell from the sky during a battle in 1219.

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