Counties of Denmark

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Denmark is divided into 13 counties (Danish: amter), and 270 municipalities (kommuner):

Map of Denmark showing the counties

Copenhagen County comprises all the municipalities of metropolitan Copenhagen, except Copenhagen Municipality and Frederiksberg Municipality.

Bornholm was originally divided in five municipalities and a county comprising the entire island. These six administrations merged on January 1, 2003 forming the new Bornholm Regional Municipality. The island's current status resembles the status of the municipalities of Copenhagen and Frederiksberg.

Greenland and the Faroe Islands are also part of the Kingdom of Denmark, but both enjoy internal autonomy. Both are largely self-governing, and each community sends two members to the Danish Parliament. The Faroe Islands obtained self-government in 1948; previously the islands had the status of a Danish amt.

See also the ranked list of Danish counties.

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[edit] Reform

A government proposal in 2004 called for the counties to be replaced by five large regions with health care as their sole responsibilities; two regions in Jutland, two regions in Zealand and one region covering Funen and the southernmost part of Jutland. The proposal also requires the municipalities to merge reducing them from 271 to about 100, with a minimum of 20,000 inhabitants in each municipality, although with room for exceptions.

The reform was confirmed by the Danish Parliament on February 24, 2005, and the counties will be abolished on 2007-01-01.

[edit] List of counties

Key Name Capital Status Population Area (km²) Pop. density
(per km²)
1 Copenhagen Copenhagen Municipality 501,158 91.3 5,489.1
2 Frederiksberg Frederiksberg Municipality 91,855 8.7 10,560.5
3 Copenhagen Glostrup County 618,529 526 1,175.9
4 Frederiksborg Hillerød County 378,686 1,347 281.1
5 Roskilde Roskilde County 241,523 891 271
6 West Zealand Sorø County 307,207 2,984 103
7 Storstrøm Næstved County 262,781 3,398 77.3
8 Funen Odense County 478,347 3,485 137.2
9 South Jutland Aabenraa County 252,433 3,939 64.1
10 Ribe Ribe County 224,261 3,132 71.6
11 Vejle Vejle County 360,921 2,997 120.4
12 Ringkjøbing Ringkøbing County 275,065 4,854 56.7
13 Viborg Viborg County 234,896 4,122 57
14 North Jutland Ålborg County 495,090 6,173 80.2
15 Århus Århus County 661,370 4,561 145
16 Bornholm Rønne Regional municipality 43,245 587 73.6
Denmark Copenhagen Entire country 5,427,459 43,093 125.9

Note: Ringkjøbing County officially uses a different spelling than its capital city, Ringkøbing.

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