Counties of Denmark

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Denmark is divided into 13 counties (Danish: amter), and 271 municipalities (kommuner):

Image:DenmarkNumbered.png Copenhagen County comprises all the municipalities of metropolitan Copenhagen, except Copenhagen Municipality and Frederiksberg Municipality.

Bornholm was originally devided 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.

See also the ranked list of Danish counties.

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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 30,000 inhabitants each, although with room for exceptions.

The reform was confirmed by the Danish Parliament on February 24 2005.

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List of counties

Key	Name		Capital	Status	Population	Area (km²)	Pop. density (per km²)
1		Copenhagen	Copenhagen	Municipality	499,148	88	5,672.1
2	Image:DenmarkFrederiksbergSeal.png	Frederiksberg	Frederiksberg	Municipality	91,076	9	10,119.6
3	Image:Københavns amt coa.png	Copenhagen	Glostrup	County	615,035	526	1,169.3
4	Image:Frederiksborg amt coa.png	Frederiksborg	Hillerød	County	368,116	1,347	273.3
5	Image:Roskilde amt coa.png	Roskilde	Roskilde	County	231,559	891	259.9
6	Image:Vestsjællands amt coa.png	West Zealand	Sorø	County	295,086	2,984	98.9
7	Image:Storstrøms amt coa.png	Storstrøm	Næstved	County	259,691	3,398	76.4
8	Image:Fyns amt coa.png	Funen	Odense	County	472,000	3,485	135.4
9	Image:Sønderjyllands amt coa.png	South Jutland	Aabenraa	County	253,482	3,939	64.4
10	Image:Ribe amt coa.png	Ribe	Ribe	County	224,345	3,132	71.6
11	Image:Vejle amt coa.png	Vejle	Vejle	County	348,844	2,997	116.4
12	Image:Ringkjøbing amt coa.png	Ringkjøbing	Ringkøbing	County	272,857	4,854	56.2
13	Image:Viborg amt coa.png	Viborg	Viborg	County	233,681	4,122	56.7
14	Image:Nordjyllands amt coa.png	North Jutland	Ålborg	County	494,153	6,173	80.1
15	Image:Århus amt coa.png	Århus	Århus	County	637,112	4,561	139.7
16	Image:Bornholms regionskommune coa.png	Bornholm	Rønne	Regional municipality	43,995	587	74.9
—	Image:Denmark coa.png	Denmark	Copenhagen	Entire country	5,340,180	43,093	123.9