Copenhagen metropolitan area
Hovedstadsområdet ( Eng.: The metropolitan area ) is the continuous settlement (Danish: byområde ) around and including the municipality of Copenhagen, the Danish capital. It is by far the largest city (Danish: by) the over 1400 cities in Denmark. Its territory covers around 400 square kilometers. Like all cities in Denmark it makes no administrative unit, but is only a statistical term. Since the administrative territorial reform of 2007, the metropolitan area lies almost entirely in the larger Capital Region; only the municipality of Greve is in the region of Sjælland.
On 1 January 2013, there were 1,230,728 residents in Hovedstadsområdet. , Which corresponds to 22 percent of the population of Denmark.
On 1 January 2013 were eighteen municipalities part of Hovedstadsområdet, twelve of them only partially:
Historical development
Historically Hovedstadsområdet was first considered by Danmarks Statistik as a whole range of complete communities, which has been redefined at intervals. So covered the area until 1979 next Hovedstaden ( Københavns Kommune, Frederiksberg municipality and Gentofte municipality ), the following 18 municipalities complete: Albert Lund, Ballerup, Birkerød, Brøndby, Dragør, Farum, Gladsaxe, Glostrup, Herlev, Hvidovre, Hoje Taastrup, Hørsholm, Lyngby - Tårbæk, Rødovre, Søllerød, Tårnby, Vallensbæk and Værløse. On January 1, 1980 contain the following seven municipalities were added: Allerød, Fredensborg - Humlebæk, Greve, Ishøj, Karlebo, Ledøje - Smørum and Solrød.
On 1 January 1999, the definition of Hovedstadsområdet was adapted to the for all other byområder valid in the country. Thus, the population of Hovedstadsområdet of 1,379,413 decreased from 1 January 1998 to 1,069,813 on 1 January 1999 and it created 40 new byområder, 12 with about 10,000 inhabitants. The municipalities Allerød, Birkerød, Dragør, Farum, Fredensborg - Humlebæk, Greve, Horsholm, Hoje Taastrup, Ishøj, Karlebo and Værløse were thereby completely from Hovedstadsområdet out, Ballerup and Søllerød partially.