Region o Soothren Denmark

Region o Soothren Denmark () 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 

Region o Soothren Denmarks hamepage  (Inglis version)


Category:States an territories established in 2007
Category:Regions o Denmark