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title: "China vs Denmark — area, population, currency"
description: "China is 9,596,960 km² with 1,406,585,000 people; Denmark is 43,094 km² with 6,009,169. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/china-vs-denmark/
site: "At One Place"
---

# China vs Denmark

**China vs Denmark: China is larger; China has more people**

9,596,960 km² vs 43,094 km² · 1,406,585,000 vs 6,009,169

China is 223 times larger than Denmark — 9,596,960 against 43,094 km². China is 234 times more populous than Denmark — 1,406,585,000 against 6,009,169 people.

## Side by side

|  | China | Denmark |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Beijing | Copenhagen |
| Area | 9,596,960 km² | 43,094 km² |
| Population | 1,406,585,000 (2025) | 6,009,169 (2025) |
| Density | 146.6 /km² | 139.4 /km² |
| Currency | Chinese yuan (CNY) | Danish krone (DKK) |
| Official languages | Standard Chinese | Danish |
| Time zones | UTC+08:00 | UTC+01:00 |
| Calling code | +86 | +45 |
| Drives on the | right | right |
| Continent | Asia | Europe |
| ISO codes | CN / CHN | DK / DNK |

## Population density

China is slightly more densely populated, by 5.1% — 147 against 139 people per km². Density is where area and population interact, and it often reverses the impression the headline figures give — a large country with a small population can feel emptier than a small crowded one by an enormous margin.

## Practical differences

- Different currencies: the Chinese yuan and the Danish krone.
- Different continents — Asia and Europe.

## China

The largest country in the world using a single time zone, so the sun rises in the far west around three hours later by the clock than in Beijing. China has a land border with fourteen countries — more than any other state except Russia, which also has fourteen. Its terrain runs from Mount Everest on the Nepalese border to the Turpan Depression at 154 m below sea level.

## Denmark

Denmark proper is a peninsula plus 406 islands, about 70 of them inhabited, and no point is more than 52 km from the sea. The highest natural point is Møllehøj at 170 m. Including Greenland and the Faroe Islands, the Kingdom of Denmark spans more than 2.2 million km².

> Neutral facts only. Nothing here addresses politics, government, economics or which country is preferable in any respect — population is the one figure that dates, and it carries its year.

## Common questions

### Is China bigger than Denmark?

China is larger — 9,596,960 km² against 43,094 km².

### Which has more people, China or Denmark?

China, with 1,406,585,000 against 6,009,169.

### What is the time difference between China and Denmark?

China is UTC+08:00 and Denmark is UTC+01:00. Daylight saving shifts the gap during the year in places that observe it.

## Related pages

- [China](https://atoneplace.net/country/china/)
- [Denmark](https://atoneplace.net/country/denmark/)
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- [China vs Japan](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/china-vs-japan/)
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## Sources

- The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency (https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/) [Public domain (US Government)]
- World Bank Open Data — The World Bank (https://data.worldbank.org/) [CC BY 4.0]