Capital Region of Denmark

Capital Region of Denmark
—  Region of Denmark  —
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Country	Denmark
Largest city	Copenhagen
Capital	Hillerød
Municipalities	29 Albertslund Allerød Ballerup Bornholm Brøndby Copenhagen Dragør Egedal Fredensborg Frederiksberg Frederikssund Frederiksværk-Hundested Furesø Gentofte Gladsaxe Glostrup Gribskov Helsingør Herlev Hvidovre Høje-Taastrup Hørsholm Ishøj Lyngby-Taarbæk Rudersdal Rødovre Tårnby Vallensbæk
Government
- Chairman	Vibeke Storm Rasmussen (Social Democrats)
Area
- Total	2,561 km2 (988.8 sq mi)
Population (2009)
- Total	1,662,285
- Density	649.1/km2 (1,681.1/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
- Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Website	www.regionhovedstaden.dk

Not to be confused with Hovedstadsregionen.

The Capital Region of Denmark (Danish: Region Hovedstaden) is an administrative region of Denmark established on January 1, 2007 as part of the 2007 Danish Municipal Reform, which replaced the traditional counties ("amter") with five larger regions. At the same time, smaller municipalities were merged into larger units, cutting the number of municipalities from 271 to 98. The reform was implemented in Denmark on January 1, 2007.

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.

Without the remote island municipality Bornholm, located 140 km (87 mi) southeast of Copenhagen, the population is 1,603,008 on an area of 1,973 km² (762 sq. m.) with a density of 812.47 per km² (2,103 per sq m), as opposed to 642.64 (1,665) 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 State Administration for Greater Copenhagen (Danish: Statsforvaltningen Hovedstaden) represents the central Government in the Capital Region of Denmark and supervises the Region and municipalities. It is part of the Ministry of Social Welfare. The leader holds the post of Director (Danish: Forvaltningsdirektør) and has a university degree in law.^{[citation needed]}

The primary function of Capital Region of Denmark, as with all the regions of Denmark, is to run the hospitals of the region, 15 in all. In opposite to for example the United States and Australia, where the capital region is a special federal district outside the normal states, the Capital Region of Denmark is merely a name of a normal region in Denmark.

Hospitals

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The following hospitals sort under Capital Region of Denmark.

• Amager Hospital on the island of Amager, Copenhagen
• Bispebjerg Hospital in Copenhagen
• Bornholms Hospital on the island of Bornholm
• Frederiksberg Hospital in Frederiksberg
• Gentofte Hospital in Gentofte
• Glostrup Hospital in Glostrup
• Herlev Hospital in Herlev
• Hvidovre Hospital in Hvidovre
• Nordsjællands Hospital in Esbønderup, Frederikssund, Hillerød, Elsinore, and Hørsholm
• Region Hovedstadens Psykiatri – psychiatric hospital with many centers around the region
• Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen
• Sct. Hans Hospital in Roskilde

Municipalities

Municipalities

The following municipalities are located in the Capital Region of Denmark but are not subordinate to the region.

• Albertslund Municipality
• Allerød Municipality
• Ballerup Municipality
• Bornholm Regional Municipality
• Brøndby Municipality
• Copenhagen Municipality
• Dragør Municipality
• Egedal Municipality
• Fredensborg Municipality
• Frederiksberg Municipality
• Frederikssund Municipality
• Furesø Municipality
• Gentofte Municipality
• Gladsaxe Municipality
• Glostrup Municipality
• Gribskov Municipality
• Halsnæs Municipality
• Helsingør Municipality
• Herlev Municipality
• Hillerød Municipality
• Hvidovre Municipality
• Høje-Taastrup Municipality
• Hørsholm Municipality
• Ishøj Municipality
• Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality
• Rudersdal Municipality
• Rødovre Municipality
• Tårnby Municipality
• Vallensbæk Municipality

External links

Media related to Region Hovedstaden at Wikimedia Commons

Coordinates: 55°56.39′N 12°18′E / 55.93983°N 12.3°E / 55.93983; 12.3