Overview
The Capital Region of Denmark consists of the municipalities of Copenhagen and Frederiksberg, the former counties of Copenhagen and Frederiksborg, and the regional municipality of Bornholm.
Without the remote island municipality Bornholm, located 140 km (87 mi) southeast of Copenhagen, the population is 1,603,008 on an area of 1,973 km² (762 sq. m.) with a density of 812.47 per km² (2,103 per sq m), as opposed to 642.64 (1,665) with all 29 municipalities included.
Before 2007, a Danish Capital Region, (Danish: Hovedstadsregionen) did exist, but it did not cover exactly the same area and did not have the same legal function.
The State Administration for Greater Copenhagen (Danish: Statsforvaltningen Hovedstaden) represents the central Government in the Capital Region of Denmark and supervises the Region and municipalities. It is part of the Ministry of Social Welfare. The leader holds the post of Director (Danish: Forvaltningsdirektør) and has a university degree in law.
The primary function of Capital Region of Denmark, as with all the regions of Denmark, is to run the hospitals of the region, 15 in total. In opposite to for example the United States and Australia, where the capital region is a special federal district outside the normal states, the Capital Region of Denmark is merely a name of a normal region in Denmark.
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