Provinces of Denmark

The provinces of Denmark (Danish: Landsdele) are statistical divisions of Denmark, positioned between the administrative regions and municipalities. They are not administrative divisions, nor subject for any kind of political elections, but are mainly for statistical use.^[1]

This is a list of the eleven Danish provinces and the regions they belong to. There are five regions (EU standard NUTS 2) and eleven provinces (EU standard NUTS 3). The provinces Copenhagen City and Copenhagen surroundings are largely build up areas, the same applies also for large parts of East Zealand and North Zealand.

Although East Zealand (NUTS-3 level) belongs to healthcare Region Zealand (NUTS-2 level), in other respects (like public transport, road maintenance, metropolitan future planning, known as the Finger Plan in all versions since 1949, regional radio and television etc.) it belongs to the Metropolitan Area of Greater Copenhagen. This has been the case since 1970, but at that time the East Zealand province was an administrational and political unit, called Roskilde Amt.

Code	Region	Code	Province	Municipalities within the provinces
NUTS-2		NUTS-3
DK01	Region Hovedstaden (Capital Region of Denmark)	DK011	Byen København (Copenhagen City)	Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Dragør and Tårnby
		DK012	Københavns omegn (Copenhagen surroundings)	Albertslund, Ballerup, Brøndby, Gentofte, Gladsaxe, Glostrup, Herlev, Hvidovre, Høje-Taastrup, Ishøj, Lyngby-Taarbæk, Rødovre and Vallensbæk
		DK013	Nordsjælland (North Zealand)	Allerød, Egedal, Fredensborg, Frederikssund, Furesø, Gribskov, Halsnæs, Helsingør, Hillerød, Hørsholm and Rudersdal
		DK014	Bornholm	Bornholm with Ertholmene
DK02	Region Sjælland (Region Zealand)	DK021	Østsjælland (East Zealand)	Greve, Køge, Lejre, Roskilde and Solrød
DK02	Region Sjælland (Region Zealand)	DK022	Vest- og Sydsjælland (West & South Zealand)	Faxe, Guldborgsund, Holbæk, Kalundborg, Lolland, Næstved, Odsherred, Ringsted, Slagelse, Sorø, Stevns and Vordingborg
DK03	Region Syddanmark (Region of Southern Denmark)	DK031	Fyn (Funen)	Assens, Faaborg, Kerteminde, Langeland, Middelfart, Nordfyn, Nyborg, Odense, Svendborg and Ærø
DK03	Region Syddanmark (Region of Southern Denmark)	DK032	Sydjylland (South Jutland)	Billund, Esbjerg, Fanø, Fredericia, Haderslev, Kolding, Sønderborg, Tønder, Varde, Vejen, Vejle and Aabenraa
DK04	Region Midtjylland (Central Denmark Region)	DK041	Vestjylland (West Jutland)	Herning, Holstebro, Ikast, Lemvig, Ringkøbing-Skjern, Skive, Struer and Viborg
DK04	Region Midtjylland (Central Denmark Region)	DK042	Østjylland (East Jutland)	Favrskov, Hedensted, Horsens, Norddjurs, Odder, Randers, Samsø, Silkeborg, Skanderborg, Syddjurs and Aarhus
DK05	Region Nordjylland (North Denmark Region)	DK050	Nordjylland (North Jutland)	Brønderslev, Frederikshavn, Hjørring, Jammerbugt, Læsø, Mariagerfjord, Morsø, Rebild, Thisted, Vesthimmerland and Aalborg

Areas and population within the provinces

Province	Population (2013)	Area km²	Population density Hab./km²
Copenhagen City ^[a]	728,243	169.6	4,394
Copenhagen Surroundings ^[a]	530,612	342.3	1,550
North Zealand ^[a]	450,245	1,449.0	311
East Zealand ^[a]	239,016	807.7	296
West & South Zealand	577,710	6,414.9	90
Bornholm	40,305	592.3	68
Funen	486,709	3,478.7	140
South Jutland	715,800	8,777.3	82
East Jutland	851,769	5,841.4	146
West Jutland	425,769	7,164.3	59
North Jutland	581,057	7,878.6	74

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Provinces forming Copenhagen metropolitan area, although the four NUTS 3 provinces belong to two different NUTS 2 regions, and the Baltic island, Bornholm is excluded.

The provinces Copenhagen City, Copenhagen Surroundings, North Zealand and East Zealand together comprise the Copenhagen metropolitan area. They are together both the planning area for the Copenhagen area, also known as the Finger Plan^[2] and the Copenhagen Public transport area.^[3] Close to 2 million people live in their joint area of about 2,770 square kilometres. This is also the best area to use for comparisons with other cities of similar size.

Occasionally the East Jutland province, with around 850,000 inhabitants in 5,841 square kilometres, is labeled as Greater Aarhus, however less than 40% of its population lives in Aarhus municipality.

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References

^ "Background - NUTS - Nomenclature of territorial units for statistics - Eurostat". ec.europa.eu. Retrieved 2022-01-22.
^ map of 2007 version at "Fingerplan 2007 - Figur". Archived from the original on 2012-12-15. Retrieved 2012-01-23.
^ "Zones".
^ Area Areal for kommuner og regioner: Hovedtal - Danmarks Statistik
^ Population (below the population pyramide)

[*-2] Provinces forming Copenhagen metropolitan area, although the four NUTS 3 provinces belong to two different NUTS 2 regions, and the Baltic island, Bornholm is excluded.

[1] "Background - NUTS - Nomenclature of territorial units for statistics - Eurostat". ec.europa.eu. Retrieved 2022-01-22.

[3] 2007 version at "Fingerplan 2007 - Figur". Archived from the original on 2012-12-15. Retrieved 2012-01-23.

[4] "Zones".

[5] Area Areal for kommuner og regioner: Hovedtal - Danmarks Statistik

[6] Population (below the population pyramide)

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