Not to be confused with The Capital Region (Denmark), Copenhagen metropolitan area, or Øresund Region.
Region in Denmark
Capital Region
Region Hovedstaden(Danish)
Region
Country
Denmark
Capital
Hillerød
Largest city
Copenhagen
Municipalities
29
Albertslund
Allerød
Ballerup
Bornholm
Brøndby
Copenhagen
Dragør
Egedal
Fredensborg
Frederiksberg
Frederikssund
Furesø
Gentofte
Gladsaxe
Glostrup
Gribskov
Halsnæs
Helsingør
Herlev
Hillerød
Hvidovre
Høje-Taastrup
Hørsholm
Ishøj
Lyngby-Taarbæk
Rudersdal
Rødovre
Tårnby
Vallensbæk
Government
• Chairperson
Lars Gaardhøj (Social Democrats)
Area
• Total
2,568.29 km2 (991.62 sq mi)
Population
(1 October 2023)[1]
• Total
1,910,395
• Density
740/km2 (1,900/sq mi)
GDP
[2]
• Total
€169.941 billion (2022)
• Per capita
€88,956 (2022)
Time zone
UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)
UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code
DK-84
HDI (2021)
0.967[3] very high · 1st of 5
Website
www.regionh.dk
The Capital Region of Denmark (Danish: Region Hovedstaden, pronounced[ʁekiˈoˀnˈhoːð̩ˌstæðˀn̩]) is the easternmost administrative region of Denmark, and contains Copenhagen, the national capital.
The Capital Region has 29 municipalities and a regional council consisting of 41 elected members. As of 1 August 2021, the chairperson is Lars Gaardhøj, who is a member of the Social Democrats party of Denmark.
The Capital Region was established on 1 January 2007 as part of the 2007 Danish Municipal Reform. This reform abolished the traditional counties (Danish plural: amter, singular: amt) and created five regions. As part of this reform, 271 smaller municipalities were merged into larger units, reducing the number of municipalities to 98.
The reform dramatically diminished the power of regional governments while enhancing that of local governments and of the central government in Copenhagen. It was implemented on 1 January 2007.
Unlike the former counties (1970–2006) (Danish Amtskommune [da], literally 'county municipality') the regions are not municipalities and are thus not allowed to have a coat of arms, only logotypes.
The regions do not collect taxes and are financed primarily through block grants, they are unable to transfer money from one area of expenditure to another, and they must return any unused money to the central government.
^FOLK1A: Population quarterly database from Statistics Denmark (in Danish)
^"EU regions by GDP, Eurostat". www.ec.europa.eu. Retrieved 18 September 2023.
^"Sub-national HDI - Area Database". Global Data Lab. Retrieved 2018-09-13.
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