Copenhagen

:This article is about the city and municipality of Copenhagen. For the play by Michael Frayn, see Copenhagen (play).

Geography

Copenhagen is located on the eastern shore of the island of Zealand (Sjælland) and partly on the island of Amager. Copenhagen faces to the east the Øresund, the strait of water that separates Denmark from Sweden, and that connects the North Sea with the Baltic Sea. On the Swedish side of the sound directly across from Copenhagen, lie the towns of Malmö and Landskrona.

Related Topics:
Zealand ''(Sjælland)'' - Amager - Øresund - Sweden - North Sea - Baltic Sea - Malmö - Landskrona

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1,116,979 people live in metropolitan Copenhagen (Storkøbenhavn). Of these 502,204 live in the Municipality of Copenhagen, 91,721 in the Municipality of Frederiksberg, 68,704 in the Municipality of Gentofte and another 454,350 in other nearby municipalities.

Related Topics:
Metropolitan Copenhagen (Storkøbenhavn) - Frederiksberg - Gentofte

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An even larger metropolitan region is known as the Danish Capital Region (Hovedstadsregionen), which consists of the municipalities of Copenhagen and Frederiksberg, and the counties of Copenhagen, Frederiksborg and Roskilde. The population of Hovedstadsregionen is 1,823,109.

Related Topics:
Danish Capital Region (''Hovedstadsregionen'') - Frederiksberg - Copenhagen - Frederiksborg - Roskilde

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Copenhagen is also a part of the Øresund region, which consists of the eastern part of Zealand island in Denmark and the western part of Skåne in Sweden. The Øresund region has a population of 3.6 million people.

Related Topics:
Øresund - Skåne - Sweden

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The city itself is divided into 15 administrative, statistical and tax districts (bydele):

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• Indre By ("Copenhagen Center")
• Christianshavn
• Indre Østerbro ("Inner Østerbro")
• Ydre Østerbro ("Outer Østerbro")
• Indre Nørrebro ("Inner Nørrebro")
• Ydre Nørrebro ("Outer Nørrebro")
• Vesterbro
• Kongens Enghave
• Valby
• Vanløse
• Brønshøj-Husum
• Bispebjerg
• Sundbyøster
• Sundbyvester
• Vestamager