Capital Region of Denmark

Capital Region of Denmark
Region Hovedstaden
Region of Denmark

Logo flag
Country Denmark
Largest city Copenhagen
Capital Hillerød
Municipalities
Government
 • Chairman Sophie Hæstorp Andersen (Social Democrats)
Area
 • Total 2,568.29 km2 (991.62 sq mi)
Population (1 April 2017)[1]
 • Total 1,811,809
 • Density 710/km2 (1,800/sq mi)
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 • Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
GDP(nominal)[2] 2015
 - Total $117 billion
 - Per capita $68,400
Website www.regionhovedstaden.dk

The Capital Region of Denmark (Danish: Region Hovedstaden) is the easternmost administrative region of Denmark, established on January 1, 2007 as part of the 2007 Danish Municipal Reform, which replaced the traditional counties (Danish plural: amter, singular: amt) with five larger regions. At the same time, smaller municipalities were merged into larger units, cutting the number of municipalities from 271 before 1 January 2006, when Ærø Municipality was created, to 98. The reform was implemented on January 1, 2007. The main task for the Danish regions are hospitals and healthcare. So it's not to be confused with Copenhagen Metropolitan Area nor with the Øresund Region.

Overview

The Capital Region of Denmark consists of the municipalities of Copenhagen and Frederiksberg, the former counties of Copenhagen and Frederiksborg, and the regional municipality of Bornholm. In Danish the name is Region Hovedstaden, which is one of five regions in Denmark.

Without the remote island municipality Bornholm, located 150 km (93 mi) southeast of Copenhagen and 135 km (84 mi) directly east of Vordingborg Municipality (Møn) (across the Baltic Sea), the population is over 1,700,000 (January 1, 2014) on an area of 1,978.91 km² (764 sq. m.) (according to www.noegletal.dk) with a density of over 860 per km² (2,230 per sq m), as opposed to over 680 (1,760) with all 29 municipalities included.

Before 2007, a Danish Capital Region, (Danish: Hovedstadsregionen) did exist, but it did not cover exactly the same area and did not have the same legal function.

The primary function of Capital Region, as with all the regions of Denmark, is to own and operate the hospitals of the region.

As Denmark is a unitary state, its "capital region" is not a capital district, but merely one among several regions of Denmark, that happens to contain the national capital.

The region does not include the Ertholmene archipelago which are situated to the northeast of Bornholm.

Logo of the Capital Region

Hospitals

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The following hospitals sort under Capital Region of Denmark.

Municipalities of Region Hovedstaden

There are 29 municipalities in the Capital Region of Denmark.

See also

References

  1. ↑ FOLK1: Population 1 April database from Statistics Denmark (in Danish)
  2. ↑ http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/2995521/7962764/1-30032017-AP-EN.pdf/4e9c09e5-c743-41a5-afc8-eb4aa89913f6

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Coordinates: 55°56.39′N 12°18′E / 55.93983°N 12.300°E / 55.93983; 12.300


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