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{{Short description|Urban area of Copenhagen, Denmark}}
{{distinguish|Copenhagen metropolitan area}}
[[File:Urban Copenhagen.PNG|thumb|Map showing the location of the urban area of Copenhagen]]
The '''urban area of [[Copenhagen]]''' (
==List of municipalities==
According to [[Danmarks Statistik]], since January 1, 2007 '''Hovedstadsområdet''' (English: ''the Capital area'') comprises the following municipalities ({{lang-da|[[Commune (subnational entity)|kommune]]}}) (population, as of
* [[Copenhagen Municipality|Copenhagen]] (a large area of
* [[Frederiksberg]] - 104,410
* [[Albertslund Municipality|Albertslund]] - 27,743
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* [[Lyngby-Taarbæk]] - 55,472
* [[Rødovre Municipality|Rødovre]] - 39,343
* [[Rudersdal municipality|Rudersdal]] (former [[Birkerød]] and [[Søllerød Municipality|Søllerød]]) - 55,989
* [[Høje Taastrup|Taastrup]] - 50.686
* [[Tårnby Municipality|Tårnby]] (a very large area of western Amager and the Saltholm (2 inhabitants (2020)) and Peberholm (nature habitat) islands are unpopulated) - 43,063
* [[Vallensbæk Municipality|Vallensbæk]] - 16,280
==Hovedstadsområdet vs. urban area of Copenhagen==
However '''Hovedstadsområdet''' ({{lang-en|"The Capital Area"}})
common urban area definition (or ''city limits'') involves the islands of [[Amager]], Saltholm and Peberholm, and primarily the municipality of [[Tårnby]].
[[Copenhagen Municipality]], [[Tårnby Municipality]] and [[Dragør Municipality]] is the three Municipality's on The Island of Amager.
[[File:AMAGER ISLAND.JPG|thumb|Amager island land use]]
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"Hovedstadsområdet" contains the entire Copenhagen and Tårnby municipalities, although the latter contains large areas without buildings and inhabitants. This also applies to a smaller part of Copenhagen on Amager island.
The western part of Amager is an enlargement from a shallow part of the [[Øresund]] sea, gained from the sea during the 1930s to 1950s. This extended part of Amager is split between Copenhagen and Tårnby municipalities, and is only built-up on two minor areas. It also includes along the harbour and around [[Bella Center]] (which hosted the climate meeting [[2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference|COP 15]] in December 2009). Apart from these smaller areas and an allotment-garden cottage area, the vast majority of western Amager is unplanned, with few buildings (like a shooting range). The cause for this creation was mainly to give shelter to the southern part of Copenhagen harbour. Since the area is now filled out with big stones, sand from the sea, plaster, wastes and unknown items, building in the area is expensive. Not even agriculture is possible due to bad soil. (However the southern part of Amager has agricultural areas and even a small forest, "Kongelunden" ("''King's Grove''"). These areas belong to a third municipality of Amager island, [[Dragør]].)
Some of the unused area belongs to [[Copenhagen
Neither the Danish statistic authority "Danmarks Statistik" (which presents information regarding "Hovedstadsområdet") or the Danish geographical institute "Kort og Matrikelstyrelsen" (which determines the borders of "Hovedstadsområdet") states that "Hovedstadsområdet" is an urban area of Copenhagen. For internal Danish matters this is of no importance. But when comparing Copenhagen with other cities, the unpopulated non-urban areas of Amager, Saltholm and Peberholm do make a difference in f.i. terms of [[population density]].
{{As of|2012|02}}, Copenhagen lacks official urban borders
Another similar area is "Storkøbenhavn" (eng. "Greater Copenhagen"). This is used by "Vejdirektoratet" ("the road authority") only. Just "Copenhagen" may refer either to the municipality, which has quite stingy borders (and totally surrounds Frederiksberg municipality), or the entire city, which
Until the 1970s, the city region of Copenhagen ({{lang-da|København}}) was stated as the three municipalities [[Copenhagen]], [[Frederiksberg]] and [[Gentofte]]. A better description of the city core (excluding all suburbs) would be south of the [[Dyrehaven]] forest in the north, the area east of the motorway called "motorring 3" and north of the motorway across Amager island which continues towards Sweden. This area includes Copenhagen (with Frederiksberg), Gentofte, most of [[Gladsaxe]], [[Rødovre]], [[Hvidovre]] and a part of [[Tårnby]] municipalities<ref>google maps earth mode</ref> This area has around 900.000 to 950.000 inhabitants.<ref>tally of population of the mentioned municipalities, including some reductions for the parts outside the described area</ref>
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[[Category:Geography of Denmark]]
[[Category:Geography of Copenhagen]]
[[Category:Geography of the Øresund Region]]
[[Category:Metropolitan areas of Denmark|Copenhagen]]
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