List of Danish Provinces

The provinces ^[1] (Danish: Landsdele ^[2]) are NUTS statistical divisions, positioned between the administrative regions and municipalities. They are not administrative divisions, nor subject for any kind of political elections, but (mainly) for statistical use.^[3]

This is a list of the eleven Danish provinces and the regions they belong to. There are five regions (EU standard NUTS 2) and eleven provinces (EU standard NUTS 3). The provinces Copenhagen City and Copenhagen surroundings are largely build up areas, the same applies also for large parts of East Zealand and North Zealand.

Although East Zealand belongs to healthcare Region Zealand (NUTS-2 level), does the province East Zealand (NUTS-3 level) in other respects (like public transport, road maintenance, metropolitan future planning, known as the Finger Plan of all versions between 1949 and recent, regional radio and television etc) belong to the Metropolitan Area of Greater Copenhagen, for statistical matters. This has been the case since 1970, but at that time were the East Zealand province, instead both an administrational and political unit, called Roskilde Amt.

The 11 Danish Provinces, also the 5 Regions can be seen

Areas and population within the provinces

Province	Population (2013)	Area km2	Population density indb/km2
Copenhagen City	728.243	169,6	4394
Copenhagen Surroundings	530.612	342,3	1550
North Zealand	450.245	1.449,0	311
East Zealand	239.016	807,7	296
West & South Zealand	577.710	6.414,9	90
Bornholm	40.305	592,3	68
Funen	486.709	3.478,7	140
South Jutland	715.800	8.777,3	82
East Jutland	851.769	5.841,4	146
West Jutland	425.769	7.164,3	59
North Jutland	581.057	7.878,6	74

Provinces forming Copenhagen metropolitan area, although the four NUTS 3 provinces belonges to two different NUTS 2 regions, and the Baltic island, Bornholm is excluded.

The provinces Copenhagen City, Copenhagen Surroundings, North Zealand and East Zealand comprise together the Copenhagen metropolitan area. They are together both the planning area for the Copenhagen area, also known as the Finger Plan ^[4] and the Copenhagen Public transport area.^[5] At their joint area of approx. 2770 square kilometres, very close to 2 million people lives. This is also the best area to use for comparissions with other cities of similar size.

Occasionally is also the East Jutland province, with around 850.000 inhabitants at 5.841 square kilometres, labeled as Greater Aarhus, however less than 40% of its population lives in Aarhus municipality.

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