Region o Soothren Denmark

Region o Soothren Denmark (Dens: Region Syddanmark) is an admeenistrative region o Denmark establisht on 1 Januar 2007 as pairt o the 2007 Dens Municipal Reform, which replacit the traditional coonties ("amter") wi five lairger regions. At the same time, smawer municipalities wur merged intae lairger units, cuttin the nummer o municipalities frae 271 tae 98. The reform wis implementit in Denmark on 1 Januar 2007, awtho the merger o the Funish municipalities o Ærøskøbing an Marstal wis gien the gae-ahead tae be implementit on 1 Januar 2006, ane year afore the main reform. Geography Region o Soothren Denmark consists o the umwhile coonties o Funen, Ribe an Sooth Jutland, addin ten municipalities frae the umwhile Vejle Coonty. The territories umwhile belangin tae Vejle Coonty conseest o the new municipalities o Fredericia (unchyngit bi the reform), Vejle (a merger o Vejle, Børkop, pairts o Egtved, Give, an Jelling) an Kolding (a merger o Kolding, pairts o Lunderskov, Vamdrup, an pairts o baith Egtved an Christiansfeld - the latter frae Sooth Jutland Coonty). A tot o 78 municipalities wur combined tae a tot o 22 new entities (leetit belaw). Municipalities Aabenraa Municipality Assens Municipality Billund Municipality Esbjerg Municipality Faaborg-Midtfyn Municipality Fanø Municipality Fredericia Municipality Haderslev Municipality Kerteminde Municipality Kolding Municipality Langeland Municipality Middelfart Municipality Nordfyn Municipality Nyborg Municipality Odense Municipality Svendborg Municipality Sønderborg Municipality Tønder Municipality Varde Municipality Vejen Municipality Vejle Municipality Ærø Municipality References Freemit airtins Media relatit tae Region Syddanmark at Wikimedia Commons Region o Soothren Denmarks hamepage Archived 2011-11-03 at the Wayback Machine (Inglis version)