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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 for comparison with other cities. "Hovedstadsområdet" is an area invented primarily for statistical matters. It's rarely used in conversation (as a ''defined'' area). Sometimes in media the word "Hovedstadsområdet" represents a metropolitan area from [[Køge]] in the south to [[Elsinore]] in the north and [[Roskilde]] in the west. For instance, a regional television channel called "Hovedstads-TV", "Kanal Hovedstaden", "Kanal København" and "TV2 Lorry" and other "Local-TV Channels" covers this larger area and so on. But even in nationwide public service television news, the word "Hovedstadsområdet" may refer to either what the Danish statistic institute defines as "Hovedstadsområdet" or the metropolitan area.
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 doesn't have defined borders.
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