Region o Soothren Denmark
Region o Soothren Denmark Region Syddanmark | |
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| Kintra | Denmark |
| Lairgest ceety | Odense |
| Caipital | Vejle |
| Municipalities | |
| Govrenment | |
| • Chairman | Carl Holst (Venstre) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 12191 km2 (4,707 sq mi) |
| Population (2008) | |
| • Total | 1,194,659 |
| • Density | 98/km2 (250/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Website | www.regionsyddanmark.dk |
Region o Soothren Denmark[1] (Dens: Region Syddanmark) is an admeenistrative region o Denmark establisht on 1 Januar 2007 as pairt o the 2007 Dens Municipal Reform, which replacit the traditional coonties ("amter") wi five lairger regions. At the same time, smawer municipalities wur merged intae lairger units, cuttin the nummer o municipalities frae 271 tae 98. The reform wis implementit in Denmark on 1 Januar 2007, awtho the merger o the Funish municipalities o Ærøskøbing an Marstal wis gien the gae-ahead tae be implementit on 1 Januar 2006, ane year afore the main reform.
Geography
[eedit | eedit soorce]Region o Soothren Denmark consists o the umwhile coonties o Funen, Ribe an Sooth Jutland, addin ten municipalities frae the umwhile Vejle Coonty. The territories umwhile belangin tae Vejle Coonty conseest o the new municipalities o Fredericia (unchyngit bi the reform), Vejle (a merger o Vejle, Børkop, pairts o Egtved, Give, an Jelling) an Kolding (a merger o Kolding, pairts o Lunderskov, Vamdrup, an pairts o baith Egtved an Christiansfeld - the latter frae Sooth Jutland Coonty). A tot o 78 municipalities wur combined tae a tot o 22 new entities (leetit belaw).
Municipalities
[eedit | eedit soorce]- Aabenraa Municipality
- Assens Municipality
- Billund Municipality
- Esbjerg Municipality
- Faaborg-Midtfyn Municipality
- Fanø Municipality
- Fredericia Municipality
- Haderslev Municipality
- Kerteminde Municipality
- Kolding Municipality
- Langeland Municipality
- Middelfart Municipality
- Nordfyn Municipality
- Nyborg Municipality
- Odense Municipality
- Svendborg Municipality
- Sønderborg Municipality
- Tønder Municipality
- Varde Municipality
- Vejen Municipality
- Vejle Municipality
- Ærø Municipality
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ "The Region of Southern Denmark". Archived frae the original on 3 November 2011. Retrieved 29 October 2011.
Freemit airtins
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Media relatit tae Region Syddanmark at Wikimedia Commons
- Region o Soothren Denmarks hamepage Archived 2011-11-03 at the Wayback Machine (Inglis version)
