Region o Soothren Denmark

Region o Soothren Denmark
Region o Soothren Denmark; Region Syddanmark
	Region o Denmark
Kintra	Denmark
Lairgest ceety	Odense
Caipital	Vejle
Municipalities	22 Aabenraa; Assens; Billund; Esbjerg; Faaborg-Midtfyn; Fanø; Fredericia; Haderslev; Kerteminde; Kolding; Langeland; Middelfart; Nordfyn; Nyborg; Odense; Svendborg; Sønderborg; Tønder; Varde; Vejen; Vejle; Ærø;
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

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

References

↑ "The Region of Southern Denmark". Archived frae the original on 3 November 2011. Retrieved 29 October 2011.

Freemit airtins

Media relatit tae Region Syddanmark at Wikimedia Commons

Region o Soothren Denmarks hamepage Archived 2011-11-03 at the Wayback Machine (Inglis version)

Coordinates: 55°20′N 9°40′E / 55.333°N 9.667°E / 55.333; 9.667

[1] "The Region of Southern Denmark". Archived frae the original on 3 November 2011. Retrieved 29 October 2011.

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