Caipital Region o Denmark

The Caipital Region o Denmark (Dens: Region Hovedstaden) is an admeenistrative region o Denmark established on 1 Januar 2007 as pairt o the 2007 Dens Municipal Reform, which replaced the traditional coonties ("amter") wi five lairger regions. At the same time, smawler municipalities wur merged intae lairger units, cuttin the number o municipalities frae 271 tae 98. The reform wis implementit in Denmark on 1 Januar 2007. Owerview The Capital Region o Denmark consists o the municipalities o Copenhagen an Frederiksberg, the umwhile coonties o Copenhagen an Frederiksborg, an the regional municipality o Bornholm. Athoot the remote island municipality Bornholm, locatit 140 km (87 mi) sootheast o Copenhagen, the population is 1,603,008 on an aurie o 1,973 km² (762 sq. m.) wi a density o 812.47 per km² (2,103 per sq m), as opposed tae 642.64 (1,665) wi aw 29 municipalities includit. Afore 2007, a Dens Caipital Region, (Dens: Hovedstadsregionen) did exist, but it did no cover exactly the same aurie an did no hae the same legal function. The State Admeenistration for Greater Copenhagen (Dens: Statsforvaltningen Hovedstaden) represents the central Govrenment in the Caipital Region o Denmark an supervises the Region an municipalities. It is pairt o the Meenistry o Social Welfare. The leader haulds the post o Director (Dens: Forvaltningsdirektør) an haes a university degree in law. The primary function o Caipital Region o Denmark, as wi aw the regions o Denmark, is tae run the hospitals o the region, 15 in aw. In opposite tae for example the Unitit States an Australie, whaur the caipital region is a special federal destrict ootside the normal states, the Caipital Region o Denmark is merely a name o a normal region in Denmark. Hospitals The follaein hospitals in the Caipital Region o Denmark include: Amager Hospital on the island o Amager, Copenhagen Bispebjerg Hospital in Copenhagen Bornholms Hospital on the island o Bornholm Frederiksberg Hospital in Frederiksberg Gentofte Hospital in Gentofte Glostrup Hospital in Glostrup Herlev Hospital in Herlev Hvidovre Hospital in Hvidovre Nordsjællands Hospital in Esbønderup, Frederikssund, Hillerød, Elsinore, an Hørsholm Region Hovedstadens Psykiatri – psychiatric hospital wi mony centers aroond the region Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen Sct. Hans Hospital in Roskilde Municipalities The follaein municipalities are locatit in the Caipital Region o Denmark but are no subordinate tae the region. Albertslund Municipality Allerød Municipality Ballerup Municipality Bornholm Regional Municipality Brøndby Municipality Copenhagen Municipality Dragør Municipality Egedal Municipality Fredensborg Municipality Frederiksberg Municipality Frederikssund Municipality Furesø Municipality Gentofte Municipality Gladsaxe Municipality Glostrup Municipality Gribskov Municipality Halsnæs Municipality Helsingør Municipality Herlev Municipality Hillerød Municipality Hvidovre Municipality Høje-Taastrup Municipality Hørsholm Municipality Ishøj Municipality Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality Rudersdal Municipality Rødovre Municipality Tårnby Municipality Vallensbæk Municipality References Freemit airtins Media relatit tae Region Hovedstaden at Wikimedia Commons