Copenhagen metropolitan area

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The metropolitan area of Copenhagen (or Metropolitan Copenhagen), Denmark has several definitions and also some historical, now defunct, definitions. The most widely accepted is the area which is strategically managed by the Finger Plan.

Finger Plan

Main article: Finger Plan

The area has been planned according the Finger Plan, which has given it six fingers of S-trains and a western connection S-line (Ringbanen or line F). Urbanization stretching out from central Copenhagen. One railroad and two metro lines over Amager been formed. The Amager railroad continues to Sweden by bridge.

Copenhagen metropolitan area is the largest of the commonly used definitions for the Copenhagen area. It has been defined administratively by the former Capital Region and is also known locally as HT-området (Capital Traffic area) because it is the zone where the capital traffic company formerly known as HT operates (now Movia), and is therefore the limit for how far you can go on a Copenhagen bus or train-ticket. Until 2007 the area consisted of Copenhagen and Frederiksberg Municipalities, Copenhagen County, Frederiksborg County and Roskilde County. After the municipality reform of Denmark 1 January 2007, the Danish counties were abolished and Vallø municipality which was a part of the metropolitan area was merged with Stevns municipality which was outside the metropolitan area and the new Stevns municipality became a part of the metropolitan area.[1]

Copenhagen metropolitan area now consists of 28 of the 29 municipalities of the Capital Region (all except Bornholm) and the municipalities of Greve, Køge, Lejre, Roskilde, Solrød and Stevns from the Region Zealand.

By this definition, the metropolitan area has a population of 1,950,522 (as of 1 January 2013) covering an area of 3030 km² over 34 municipalities with a density of 644/km² (1,670/sq mi).[2][3]

The Capital Region of Denmark

The administrative entity responsible for the Capital Region of Denmark defines their administrative area as the metropolitan area of Copenhagen.[4] As such the population is 1,713,624 (1 October 2011) on an area of 2,561 km² with a density of 669.1/km² (1,733/sq mi).[5] It should however be noted that the Capital Region does not contain all of the Roskilde and Køge Bay fingers as well as all of the urban area which stretches into Region Zealand. Furthermore it does contain the remote island of Bornholm.

The Øresund Region

While actually a transnational region of co-operation, rather than a metropolitan area, the Øresund Region is by some considered to constitute the metropolitan area of Copenhagen.[6] This goes back to the Initiativgruppen (a group tasked for developing the Copenhagen area in 1989[7]), who was tasked with creating the metropole of the north.[8] As of 1 October 2011 the Øresund Region is populated by 3,783,158 inhabitants with a density of 181.3/km² (469.5/sq mi) (Danish side: 2,531,945, Swedish side: 1,251,213). According to OECD, however, this region includes vast areas which are not recognized as part of the functional metropolitan area.[9]

The core of the Øresund Region

Copenhagen is by far the largest city, and the obvious core of the region. However the Øresund Region covers large areas that are located remotely from both Copenhagen and the Øresund sea. Areas that also has a rather low population density. In order to illustrate this better, Copenhagen metropolitan area can be added to the Western, part of Scania which has a far higher population density than the mid and eastern part of the province. If adding 17 Scanian municipalities, closest to the Øresund, (Swedish area 3201 km2 of land, and 925,982 inhabitants)[10][11][12] toghether with the Metropolitan area of Copenhagen, close to 2.9 million people lives around the Øresund sea at an area of 6231 km² (2410 sq.miles) with a population density of 461 inhabitants/km² (1191 inhab./sq.mile). Note that this is an illustration of the population and density around the Øresund sea rather than a formal area. But as such the population around Øresund constitutes the by far largest population centre of Scandinavia and Finland.

Copenhagen-Malmö metropolitan area

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark considers Copenhagen and Malmö to constitute a combined metropolitan area within the Øresund Region. As of 1 October 2011 the Copenhagen-Malmö metropolitan area had a population of 2,591,995 inhabitants on an area of 5565.76 km² with a density of 465.7/km² (1,206.2/sq mi).[13][14]

OECD

OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) defines the Copenhagen metropolitan area with a population of 2,390,000 inhabitants as of 2009.[15] According to OECD the Finger Plan doesn't include the entire functional/economic metropolitan area of Copenhagen.

Other definitions

The local TV stations TV2/Lorry, Kanal København and Hovedstads-TV each also defines the Copenhagen metropolitan area as the area they respectively cover.

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.4.2. Hovedstadsudligningen
  2. ↑ Map of the Capital Municipalities
  3. ↑ "Statistics Denmark (table: FOLK1)". Statistics Denmark. Archived from the original on 17 Aug 2012. Retrieved 17 Aug 2012. 
  4. ↑ "Vækstforum, Region Hovedstaden" (PDF) (in Danish). 17 July 2007. Retrieved 23 January 2012. 
  5. ↑ FOLK1 Folketal pr. d. 1. i kvartalet efter kommune/region, køn, alder, civilstand, herkomst, oprindelsesland og statsborgerskab (2008M01-2011M10)
  6. ↑ "City Mayors: Danish and Swedish regions gave up power to create bi-national metropolis". City Mayors. Archived from the original on 26 January 2012. Retrieved 26 January 2012. 
  7. ↑ "Øresundstid" (in Danish). Retrieved 23 January 2012. 
  8. ↑ Kresl, Peter Karl (2007). Planning cities for the future. Edward Elgard Publishing. p. 101. ISBN 978-1-84542-530-2. 
  9. ↑ "OECD: Territorial Review Copenhagen, 2009, p. 34". Københavns Kommune. Archived from the original on 19 January 2012. 
  10. ↑ inahbitants http://www.scb.se/sv_/Hitta-statistik/Statistik-efter-amne/Befolkning/Befolkningens-sammansattning/Befolkningsstatistik/25788/2013M09/Kvartals--och-halvarsstatistik---Kommun-lan-och-riket/Kvartal-1-2013/
  11. ↑ Land areas are taken from Swedish Wikipedia at https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lista_%C3%B6ver_Sveriges_kommuner
  12. ↑ And for maps and easy access to data (from previous sources) please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scania#Population
  13. ↑ "Why Denmark? The best place to do business". Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark. Archived from the original on 27 January 2012. 
  14. ↑ "Espaces transfrontaliers: Cross-border conurbations". Espaces transfrontaliers. Archived from the original on 26 January 2012. Retrieved 26 January 2012. 
  15. ↑ "OECD: Territorial Review Copenhagen, 2009, p. 34". Københavns Kommune. Archived from the original on 19 January 2012. 

Coordinates: 55°41′N 12°34′E / 55.68°N 12.57°E / 55.68; 12.57

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