Regions

Denmark is divided into five regions (Danish: regioner, singular: region) and a total of 98 municipalities. The regions were created on January 1, 2007 as part of the 2007 Danish Municipal Reform to replace the country's traditional thirteen counties (amter). At the same time, smaller municipalities (kommuner) were merged into larger units, cutting the number of municipalities from 270 to 98. Each Regional Council consists of 41 elected politicians elected as part of the 2005 Danish municipal elections.

Most of the new municipalities have a population of least 20,000 people, although a few exceptions were made to this rule.

Greenland and the Faroe Islands are also parts of the Kingdom of Denmark, but have autonomous status and are largely self-governing, and are each represented by two seats in the parliament.

Hovedstaden Region

• Albertslund
• Allerød
• Ballerup
• Bornholm regional
• Brøndby
• Copenhagen (largest city in region and the capital of country)
• Dragør
• Egedal
• Fredensborg
• Frederiksberg
• Frederikssund
• Frederiksværk-Hundested
• Furesø
• Gentofte
• Gladsaxe
• Glostrup
• Gribskov
• Helsingør
• Herlev
• Hillerød (capital of region)
• Hvidovre
• Høje-Taastrup
• Hørsholm
• Ishøj
• Lyngby-Taarbæk
• Rudersdal
• Rødovre
• Tårnby
• Vallensbæk

Midtjylland Region

• Århus (largest city in region)
• Favrskov
• Hedensted
• Herning
• Holstebro
• Horsens
• Ikast-Brande
• Lemvig
• Norddjurs
• Odder
• Randers
• Ringkøbing-Skjern
• Samsø
• Silkeborg
• Skanderborg
• Skive
• Struer
• Syddjurs
• Viborg (capital of region)

Nordjylland Region

• Aalborg (largest city and capital of the region)
• Brønderslev
• Frederikshavn
• Hjørring
• Jammerbugt
• Læsø
• Mariagerfjord
• Morsø
• Rebild
• Thisted
• Vesthimmerland

Sjælland Region

• Faxe
• Greve
• Guldborgsund
• Holbæk
• Kalundborg
• Køge
• Lejre
• Lolland
• Næstved
• Odsherred
• Ringsted
• Roskilde (largest city in region)
• Slagelse
• Solrød
• Sorø (capital of region)
• Stevns
• Vordingborg

Syddanmark Region

• Aabenraa
• Assens
• Billund
• Esbjerg
• Faaborg-Midtfyn
• Fanø
• Fredericia
• Haderslev
• Kerteminde
• Kolding
• Langeland
• Middelfart
• Nordfyn
• Nyborg
• Odense (largest city in region)
• Svendborg
• Sønderborg
• Tønder
• Varde
• Vejen
• Vejle (capital of region)
• Ærø