What territory did Denmark receive after losing Norway?

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Watercolor etching by August Friedrich Andreas Campe showing diplomats and military officers in ornate uniforms gathered around a large table with maps at the Congress of Vienna. — Congress of Vienna *The Congress of Vienna*, watercolor etching by August Friedrich Andreas Campe; in the collection of the State Borodino War and History Museum, Moscow.

Following the loss of Norway to Sweden as a result of the Napoleonic Wars and the subsequent Congress of Vienna, Denmark received the duchy of Lauenburg as compensation.12

This arrangement occurred because Prussia had been awarded Lauenburg by the Congress of Vienna but chose to grant it to Denmark in exchange for the previously Swedish-held territory of Pomerania.12