List of Danish Provinces

The provinces [1] (Danish: Landsdele [2]) are NUTS statistical divisions, positioned between the administrative regions and municipalities. They are not administrative divisions, nor subject for any kind of political elections, but (mainly) for statistical use.[3]

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

NUTS-2 NUTS-3
Code Region Code Province Municipalities within the provinces
DK01 Region Hovedstaden DK011 Copenhagen City Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Dragør and Tårnby municipalities
DK012 Copenhagen surroundings Albertslund, Ballerup, Brøndby, Gentofte, Gladsaxe, Glostrup, Herlev, Hvidovre, Høje-Taastrup, Ishøj, Lyngby-Taarbæk, Rødovre and Vallensbæk
DK013 North Zealand Allerød, Egedal, Fredensborg, Frederikssund, Furesø, Gribskov, Halsnæs, Helsingør, Hillerød, Hørsholm and Rudersdal
DK014 Bornholm Bornholm with Ertholmene
DK02 Region Sjælland DK021 East Zealand Greve, Køge, Lejre, Roskilde and Solrød
DK022 West & South Zealand Faxe, Guldborgsund, Holbæk, Kalundborg, Lolland Municipality, Næstved, Odsherred, Ringsted, Slagelse, Sorø, Stevns and Vordingborg
DK03 Region Syddanmark DK031 Fyn Assens, Faaborg, Kerteminde, Langeland, Middelfart, Nordfyn municipality, Nyborg, Odense, Svendborg and Ærø
DK032 South Jutland Billund, Esbjerg, Fanø, Fredericia, Haderslev, Kolding, Sønderborg, Tønder, Varde, Vejen, Vejle and Aabenraa
DK04 Region Midtjylland DK041 West Jutland Herning, Holstebro, Ikast, Lemvig, Ringkøbing, Skive, Struer and Viborg
DK042 East Jutland Favrskov municipality, Hedensted, Horsens, Norddjurs municipality, Odder, Randers, Samsø, Silkeborg, Skanderborg, Syddjurs municipality and Aarhus
DK05 Region Nordjylland DK051 North Jutland Brønderslev, Frederikshavn, Hjørring, Jammerbugt municipality, Læsø, Mariagerfjord, Morsø, Rebild municipality, Thisted, Vesthimmerland municipality and Aalborg
The 11 Danish Provinces, also the 5 Regions can be seen

Areas and population within the provinces

Province Population (2013) Area
km2
Population density
indb/km2
Copenhagen City 728.243 169,64394
Copenhagen Surroundings 530.612 342,31550
North Zealand 450.245 1.449,0311
East Zealand 239.016 807,7296
West & South Zealand 577.710 6.414,990
Bornholm 40.305 592,368
Funen 486.709 3.478,7140
South Jutland 715.800 8.777,382
East Jutland 851.769 5.841,4146
West Jutland 425.769 7.164,359
North Jutland 581.057 7.878,674

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

The provinces Copenhagen City, Copenhagen Surroundings, North Zealand and East Zealand comprise together the Copenhagen metropolitan area. They are together both the planning area for the Copenhagen area, also known as the Finger Plan [4] and the Copenhagen Public transport area.[5] At their joint area of approx. 2770 square kilometres, very close to 2 million people lives. This is also the best area to use for comparissions with other cities of similar size.

Occasionally is also the East Jutland province, with around 850.000 inhabitants at 5.841 square kilometres, labeled as Greater Aarhus, however less than 40% of its population lives in Aarhus municipality.

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