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The Regions of Denmark will be created under the Danish Municipal Reform of 2007, which will create five new administrative units to replace the country's traditional thirteen counties (amter). At the same time, smaller municipalities (kommuner) will be merged into larger units, cutting the number of municipalities from 270 to 98. The reform will be implemented on 1 January 2007. The most important area of responsibility for the new regions will be the national health service.
The reform has been called the biggest reform in thirty years, and is an important policy issue for the current Liberal-Conservative Danish cabinet, most importantly for Lars Løkke Rasmussen, minister of the Interior and Health. The abolition of the counties has long been an important goal for both the Conservatives and the Danish People's Party. In June 2004, the Danish People's Party decided to back the reform, thus securing a majority in the Danish parliament, Folketinget, although the party had preferred just abolishing the counties without replacing them with a new third administrative level (the other two being the government and the municipalities).
List of regions
The regions will be as follows:
| Region | Capital | Population | Area (km²) | Pop. density (per km²) | Present counties |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hovedstaden | Hillerød | 1,633,565 | 2,561 | 637.9 | Copenhagen County and Frederiksborg, and the municipalities of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg and Bornholm |
| Midtjylland | Viborg | 1,219,741 | 13,053 | 93.4 | Ringkjøbing, nearly all of Århus, the southern part of Viborg and the northern part of Vejle |
| Nordjylland | Aalborg | 576,802 | 8,020 | 71.9 | North Jutland, the northern part of Viborg County and a small part of Århus County |
| Sjælland | Sorø | 811,511 | 7,273 | 111.6 | Roskilde, Storstrøm, and Vestsjælland |
| Syddanmark | Vejle | 1,185,840 | 12,191 | 97.3 | Fyn, Ribe, Sønderjylland and the southern half of Vejle County |
| Denmark | Copenhagen | 5,427,459 | 43,093 | 125.9 | Entire country |
See also
External links
- Explanation of and background to Municipal Reform - with links to the Danish Ministry of the Interior and Health (in English)
- The agreement about the Municipal Reform - from the Danish Ministry of the Interior and Health (in Danish)
- Regionalization and devolution: Proposed new regions of Norway (powerpoint slide show)
- Statistics Denmark
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