Talk:Urban area of Copenhagen

Urban area of Copenhagen vs. metropolitan area of Copenhagen
This definition is actually equivalent to the international expression "Urban area", NOT to the metropolitan zone, so the title of the article is completely wrong, and should be changed to Urban Copenhagen or Urban area of Copenhagen Carewolf 14:08, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I can only support Carewolf´s comment. Would someone be so kind to move the title of the article to "Urban Copenhagen"? Thank you. --Rene Tandbjerg (talk) 11:21, 2 January 2012 (UTC)


 * I have moved the page now. It is however worth noting, that Copenhagen doesn't have a separate officially recognized metropolitan area and as such there will never be WP:V for such a term, that the the Øresund Region is the closest resemblance to an metropolitan area for Copenhagen. For the same reason Copenhagen metropolitan area has remained unsourced for 15-16 months (and have been WP:PRD'ed). Currently Metropolitan Copenhagen redirects to this article, but I wonder if a redirect to Øresund Region wouldn't be more correct? --Heb (talk) 12:57, 13 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Actually, Copenhagen does have an officially recognized metropolitan area. It's regulated by the Fingerplan 2007 (in Danish only), which is setting the frames for the development of Copenhagen with suburbs. The area covers a total of 34 municipalities. The Øresund Region is a definition for regional cooperation, not a definition of a metropolitan area, and a redirect there wouldn't be correct. The article for Copenhagen metropolitan area is more or less correct, but needs to be extended and updated (don't have the time myself, sorry). I suggest to change Metropolitan Copenhagen so it's a redirect to Copenhagen metropolitan area instead.--Pjred (talk) 22:53, 13 January 2012 (UTC)


 * As far as I can see, that document more talks about the Hovedstadsområdet as a Metropolis, rather than a metropolitan area. I.e. in "at sikre hovedstadsområdets kvaliteter som metropol" (to ensure the qualities of Hovedstadsområdet as a metropolis) and "til gavn for udvikling af hovedstadsområdet som europæisk metropol" (for the benefit of development of Hovedstadsområdet as an European metropolis). The only official place I've found, which actually talk about an metropolitan area in a Danish context is Denmark in Figures by Statistics Denmark (but doesn't seem to clearly define it) and this old publication by the same agency. --Heb (talk) 07:57, 16 January 2012 (UTC)


 * ??? The document is in Danish, so you will of course not find the English term Metropolitan area there. However, the document deals with typical issues for a Metropolitan area (transport, commuting, both urban and rural planning within the defined area, and so on), and is frequently describing the area as a Storbyområde, which is the Danish word for Metropolitan area (use Google translate if you don't believe me ;-)).--Pjred (talk) 10:18, 16 January 2012 (UTC)


 * I can agree on that, but then I think you are contradicting yourself. Above you writes that " [t] he area [= Hovedstadsområdet ] covers a total of 34 municipalities." If I understand you correctly, that means that the Hovedstadsområdet is equal to a Copenhagen metropolitan area - right? So now you write, that it is the storbyområder that is the Copenhagen metropolitan area, but according to the Fingerplan 2007 you linked to above (page 46), the two storbyområder in and around Copenhagen (Indre storbyområde and Ydre storbyområde) only has a total of 97,408 residencies, out of the 115,988 residencies in total on Hovedstadsområdet. So what about the rest? I still think that the most WP:V solution is to either have Metropolitan Copenhagen to redirect to this article (equaling the verified Statistics Denmark definition of Hovedstadsområdet as now or this one and the one from Planloven) or to Øresund Region and then also let the infobox on Copenhagen reflect that. In kind regards Heb (talk) 11:19, 16 January 2012 (UTC)


 * On a couple of places, the document concentrates on sub-areas, while on other places, the document describes the Hovedstadsområde in the context of a Storbyområde. Nothing odd with that, terminology isn't always an exact science. I find discussions like these hard, as to my experience they tend to be about proof that each drop of water in a lake is wet, if you know what I mean. Urban statistics and definitions has been one of my big interests for over 25 years, and to my experience, the area covered by the Fingerplan 2007 is very spot-on what is normally called a Metropolitan area. I can accept that Metropolitan Copenhagen redirects to this article, but I still think a redirect to Copenhagen metropolitan area is a far better one. As I wrote above, the Øresund Region is not a Metropolitan area, so let's leave it out of this discussion, please.--Pjred (talk) 13:50, 16 January 2012 (UTC)


 * One of the basic policies on Wikipedia is verifiability - or WP:V. And here the basic "mantra" is that " [t] he threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth". I'm not in anyway trying to undermine your knowledge on this subject, but for me the problem is right now, that no matter what "solution" is chosen (I frankly don't give a rat's ass, wither the Copenhagen metropolitan area has 2 mio. inhabitants or 500,000 inhabitants) it's likely to be challenged (WP:CHALLENGED) and I want the figure that is least likely to be challenged. --Heb (talk) 07:40, 17 January 2012 (UTC)


 * If you can't see the verifiability here, I can't give further assistance I'm afraid.--Pjred (talk) 09:57, 17 January 2012 (UTC)


 * It's true the term 'Hovedstadsområdet' is used about both the urban area and the metropolitan area. DST has earlier often used the term 'Hovedstadsregionen' about Copenhagen metropolitan area. The terms 'område' and 'region' can be a bit vague at times and are often used loosely. The term 'Hovedstadsområdet' can be used about both, the build-up area (urban area) and the employment area (metropolitan area). It is however more common to use the definition as the metropolitan area.
 * The area defined as Copenhagen metropolitan area contains 34 municipalities (Region Hovedstaden - Bornholm + Roskilde, Lejre, Greve, Solrød and Stevns) This definition dates back to 1974 and has only been enlarged once in 2007 to contain Stevns municipality.
 * As you also can read here: :http://www.sm.dk/data/Dokumentertilpublikationer/Publikationer%202008/Kommunal_udligning_og_generelle_tilskud2008/kap01.htm
 * "1.4.2. Hovedstadsudligningen
 * Hovedstadsudligningen er en mellemkommunal udligningsordning for kommunerne i hovedstadsområdet. Hovedstadsområdet er i denne sammenhæng afgrænset på en måde, der stort set svarer til den hidtidige afgrænsning bortset fra den nye Stevns Kommune, som fremover vil indgå i hovedstadsområdet. Det skyldes, at den nye Stevns Kommune efter kommunalreformen vil bestå af de hidtidige kommuner Vallø og Stevns, hvoraf Vallø har indgået i hovedstadsområdet, mens Stevns har ligget uden for hovedstadsområdet."
 * Remember metropolitan areas are based on commuters and that's exactly what the area is. It is defined that way because it's considered one employment area. Copenhagen's urban planning, e.g. Fingerplan 2007 is based on this area and Copenhagen's urban planning has been based on this area since the 1970's.
 * Hovedstadsrådet was established in 1974 and was responsible for Copenhagen's urban planning till 1989 and since (April 1, 1974) Copenhagen´s metropolitan area was defined as Copenhagen and Frederiksberg municipalities and Copenhagen, Fredensborg, Roskilde counties.
 * Hovedstadens Udviklingsråd (HUR) was established in 2000 and responsible for Copenhagen´s urban planning from 2000 - 2006 and since 2007 milijøministeriet has been responsible for Copenhagen´s urban planning.
 * As seen here: http://www.naturstyrelsen.dk/NR/rdonlyres/168AEF1C-EE66-4FE9-95D3-92B5D4452BFD/0/9788772797793.pdf
 * It still the same area (+ Stevns since 2007) which Copenhagen's urban planning is based on and this is indeed the official metropolitan area and has been it since 1974. You can't argue about this being Copenhagen's official defined metropolitan area and it has 1.93 million citizens as of October 1st 2011. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Christian2381 (talk • contribs) 22:54, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Can you please provide an uncontested (see the rest of this discussion) source for the statement "The area defined as Copenhagen metropolitan area contains 34 municipalities"? Also please read my response to User:Pjred above. Finally I've indented your comment for readability, but please read WP:TPYES and also remember to sign your comments. In kind regards Heb (talk) 07:40, 17 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Region Hovedstaden contains 29 municipalities, without Bornholm it´s 28. Copenhagen metro area also contains Lejre, Roskilde, Greve, Solrød, Køge and Stevns (6). So all in all it´s 28 + 6 = 34 municipalities

Christian2381 (talk) 14:03, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

Various pages by population with IW
I've made the following table, in an attempt to show how the pages are currently representing various regions - indexed by population, as that is the most precise and sortable key I've been able to locate:

Some of the differences can be attributed to population indexes having different ages, but in total I see two groups. One with approx. 550,000 inhabitants (the municipality = Københavns kommune) and one with approx. 1,2 mio. inhabitants (the urban area = København/Storkøbenhavn/Copenhagen/Greater Copenhagen/Hovedstadsområdet). Then there are some larger administrative groupings: Region Hovedstaden/Capital Region of Denmark and the now defunct Hovedstadsregionen/The Capital Region (Denmark). And finally there is the even larger Øresund Region, but we are not talking more about that. So if I understand correct, the closest resemblance to an official recognized area for a Copenhagen metropolitan area is in fact the now defunct Hovedstadsregionen/The Capital Region (Denmark)? In kind regards Heb (talk) 11:03, 17 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Yes it's a bit confusing with all the different ways of defining Copenhagen and about the terms which are used for different areas but here we go: I'll use the Danish words for terms. The population figures are in quoted in '' and are the newest available from DST (October 1st 2011) except for the urban area which is from January 1st 2011. I included some different definitions as well as Zealand.


 * (1) Københavns kommune (548,443): The municipality.


 * (2) Københavns by (703,571): Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Tårnby and Dragør. This is a new term created in 2007.


 * (3) Hovedstaden (721,373): Copenhagen, Frederiksberg and Gentofte. An old term.


 * (4) Københavns sammenhængende byområde (Hovedstadsområdet) (1,199,224): Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Albertslund, Brøndby, Gentofte, Gladsaxe, Glostrup, Herlev, Hvidovre, Lyngby-Taarbæk, Rødovre, Tårnby and Vallensbæk and parts of Ballerup, Rudersdal and Furesø as well as Ishøj city and Greve Strand city (not their municipalities). This area is the urban area according to DST (using UN's 200m definition).


 * (5) Københavns by + Københavns omegn (1,223,775): Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Tårnby, Dragør, Albertslund, Ballerup, Brøndby, Gentofte, Gladsaxe, Glostrup, Herlev, Hvidovre, Høje-Taastrup, Ishøj, Lyngby-Taarbæk, Rødovre and Vallensbæk. This is a very narrow definition of Copenhagen which does not even contain all of the urban area.


 * (6) Region Hovedstaden (1,713,624): Just an administrative area responsible for the hospitals and not a very good way to define Copenhagen. It doesn´t contain all of Copenhagen's urban area (like Greve Strand) but at the same time it contains Bornholm.


 * (7) Københavns storbyområde (Hovedstadsområdet/Hovedstadsregionen) (1,930,260): Region Hovedstaden - Bornholm + Lejre, Roskilde, Greve, Solrød and Stevns. This is Copenhagen's official metropolitan area defined in 1974 and enlarged with Stevns in 2007. This is the area which is considered one big employment area and the area which the urban planning is based on.


 * (8) Sjælland/Sjællandske øgruppe (2,383,100): Zealand, the island which Copenhagen is located on. This area includes nearby islands like Amager but not Lolland-Falster. This area is roughly equal to an area based on 10% of the commuters are commuting into central parts of the Copenhagen area. As it can be seen here based on numbers from 2002: http://www.bvl.aau.dk/dansk/fase1/plancher/pendler_hreg.jpg.


 * (9) Øresundsregionen (3,783,158): Zealand, Lolland-Falster, Bornholm and Scania. This is a really big area which is not based on commuters. However in the future an area around Copenhagen and Malmø is supposed to be defined. This will be a so-called combined metropolitan area.


 * NOTE (Storkøbenhavn/Hovedstadsområdet)


 * It is important to remember that some terms and areas are not always strichtly defined and not always used the same way. Expressions such as område/region (area/region) are not always strichtly defined and sometimes used interchangeably of each other. It is a bit like the term "Copenhagen including suburbs" which also is a loose term. It's the same with the terms 'suburb' and 'satellite city/town' - a suburb is usually considered to be a part of the urban area while a satellite city is not a part of the urban area but a part of the metropolitan area, however often the term suburb is also used about a satellite city. The same way with suburbs and exburbs. The metropolitan area (7) is the best way to define Copenhagen. An urban area is the physical city whereas the metropolitan area is the functional city.


 * Storkøbenhavn: This is a loose term which is not used in statistics but usually it will refer to the urban area. However in the past it's often been used to refer to Copenhagen, Frederiksberg and Copenhagen county. Sometimes it can also refer to (5) or (7).


 * Hovedstadsområdet: This term is used mainly about the metropolitan area but can also refer to the urban area.


 * Finally at last, geography and especially cities and terms such as urban areas, metropolitan area etc. etc. are one of my great interests and I know a bit about it ;-).
 * --Christian2381 (talk) 15:16, 17 January 2012 (UTC)


 * First I'd like to thank you for this very thorough answer. It does however rise a few further questions for me, which I hope you'll answer as well, given that I don't have much knowledge on this subject (and most readers probably don't either):
 * (1), (4), (6), (7) and (9) are already pretty well-sourced on Wikipedia, so we are fine on them, but where does the definitions (and populae) for (2) and (3) come from? (8) I've found a couple of definitions for (even a very old one in Salomonsens konversationsleksikon :)).
 * In (7) you write that this is "Copenhagen's official metropolitan area". However, as written above the Fingerplanen 2007 (which I found this cool interactive map for by the way) clearly distinqueshes between the storbyområde and Hovedstadsområdet and as stated by User:Pjred above, storbyområde translates to metropolitan area. So why does Fingerplanen 2007 distinguish this way then?
 * As you can see above - and verify yourself - Hovedstadsområdet interwikies to Urban area of Copenhagen (and previously Metropolitan Copenhagen), whereas Copenhagen metropolitan area interwikies to Hovedstadsregionen, which in turn interwikies to The Capital Region (Denmark). Why doesn't The Capital Region (Denmark) equal an Copenhagen metropolitan area?
 * On Copenhagen - in the intro - it is stated that "Within [ the Øresund Region ], Copenhagen and the Swedish city of Malmö are growing into a combined metropolitan area" (I added the Citation needed). But given how many who lices in Malmø (according to this page 12,000 Danes and this page 6,700 Swedes) works in Copenhagen, then why isn't Malmø a part of the metropolitan area? In kind regards Heb (talk) 08:26, 19 January 2012 (UTC)


 * 1. Regarding 'Københavns by' and also 'Københavns omegn' look here in Statistical Yearbook 2011 (page 32): http://www.dst.dk/pukora/epub/upload/16217/saa2011.pdf. This area is also equal to 'Københavns politikreds' as seen here: http://www.politi.dk/Koebenhavn/da/omos/om_politikredsen/ and also 'storkreds København' as seen here: http://www.storkredsen.dk/files/SKB0109web.pdf. However the term "Københavns by" can also be confusing since often it will be used to refer to the municipality or the urban area.
 * For Hovedstaden: (page 28): http://www.dst.dk/pukora/epub/upload/16217/saa2011.pdf. Before 2007 this was 'storkreds København'.


 * And here for latest population figues of these areas: http://dst.dk/da/Statistik/emner/befolkning-og-befolkningsfremskrivning/folketal.aspx


 * 2. Yes I think this again comes down to not using words and terms 100% exact - I think you read things in a very literal way. They write about 'storbyområdet and parts of 'storbyområdet. As written on page 11: ”Samspillet mellem Fingerplan 2007 og de 34 kommuners planlægning bliver afgørende for at videreudvikle de fysisk-funktionelle kvaliteter i det fælles storbyområde og for udviklingen af hele storbyområdet som et godt sted at bo og arbejde.” Here 'hele storbyområdet' refers to hovedstadsområdet = Copenhagen metropolitan area. They refer to different parts of 'storbyområdet' like 'indre storbyområde' and 'ydre storbyområde' but they are still just parts of the same 'storbyområde. Remember this is written by Milijøministeriet whom are responsible for Copenhagen´s urban planning.


 * 3. Well I don´t know who wrote these articles but remember on wikipedia everyone can write an article and not everything written is always totally reliable and people without knowledge about the subject can write about it.


 * But this again comes down to the same term being used about different areas – hovedstadsområdet being used about both the urban area and the metropolitan area. In urban planning hovedstadsområdet refers to Copenhagen metropolitan area while DST use the term hovedstadsområdet about the urban area.


 * Hovedstadsområdet:Regarding the wiki article on Hovedstadsområdet it also says something about a different definition, read the section ”Andre definitioner” there.
 * Anyway regarding the term 'Hovedstadsområdet' DST uses this term about the urban area. While 'Hovedstadsregionen' has been used only about the metropolitan area, 'Hovedstadsområdet' has been used about both the metropolitan area and urban area. This again goes back to what I wrote earlier about 'område/regioner'.


 * Regarding the article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Capital_Region_(Denmark) I'll say that what it says there is clearly wrong. It states that Hovedstadsregionen: Copenhagen and Frederiksberg and the counties of Frederiksborg and Roskilde was an administrative area but it wasn´t, it contained 2 municipalities and 2 counties which all were different administrative areas. Now we have region Hovedstaden which is administrative area and not equal to Copenhagen metropolitan area.


 * 4. It´s important to remember that there´s no international standard in the world for metropolitan areas. A lot european countries don´t even define metropolitan areas and those who do only a few do it in scientific way, INSEE in France being one of them. The INSEE definition of a metropolitan area requires 40% of all comutters to comutte into central parts of a city while the US census bureau only requires 25%, so the French definition is strichter. However most countries don´t define metropolitan areas sciencetifically.


 * This all comes down to a talk about metropolitan area vs combined metropolitan area and monocentrism vs polycentrism. Adjacent metropolitan areas might be joined together into a combined metropolitan area.


 * The US census bureau which defines metro areas scientificaly, distinguish metropolitan areas from 'combined metropolitan' or 'combined statistical' areas. The first one being mainly monocentric while the other is polycentric. The US census bureau requires employment interchange of at least 15% for a combined statistical area compared to 25% for a metropolitan area.


 * I'll give you an example: San Fransisco metropolitan area has 4.3 million citizens (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_United_States_Metropolitan_Statistical_Areas) while San Fransisco combined metropolitan area or statistical area has 3 main centers (San Jose, San Francisco and Oakland) and a population of 7.5 million citizens    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_United_States_Combined_Statistical_Areas).


 * In the Øresund region there are 2 main centers – Copenhagen and Malmø. These 2 metropolitan areas can be joined together into a combined metropolitan area which should be defined by DST and SCB some time in the future. Christian2381 (talk) 16:33, 19 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Thank you for this very very thorough explanation. It does in fact makes sense, but I still find it annoying that there are no clear definitions for these terms and that some even have several definitions, but this is quite easy to work with. On a side note: Please don't change to much in the text after you have signed it, as per WP:REDACTED. In very kind regards --Heb (talk) 11:36, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

Storkøbenhavn and Hovedstadsområdet
I am not sure that these two terms are synonyms. As I have learnt, Hovedstadsområdet is bigger than Storkøbenhavn. --Johannes Rohr (talk) 18:17, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Hovedstadsområdet was a loose term, which according to this discussion on DaWiki only was defined by the Danish Road Directorate (DRD), and was a slightly bigger area than Storkøbenhavn. However with the Danish Municipal Reform of 2007 the DRD disbanded the term for the more widely recognized Hovedstadsregionen. --Heb (talk) 12:57, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

Regarding the section ”Region based on Copenhagen with suburbs”
I don´t really know what the point is with that section. The area contains Dragør municipality which is not considered a part of the urban area by DST and also it doesn´t include Greve strand and Ishøj city which are a part of the urban area. The population figures are also outdated and from 1/1 2004 except for Copenhagen municipality which had a population of 501,664 (1/1 2004). I have checked all years and quarters in that period and none of them shows a population of 502,204 as quoted in that section so it's clearly wrong.

For some years the 455.61 km2 figure for this area was quoted as the area for the urban area in the Copenhagen article although this is very obviously a wrong number for the urban area. That was quite annoying since I several times pointed out that the number was wrong. The real figure for Copenhagen urban area is considerably smaller. It is however important to note that there´s no official figure for the urban area. This was despite the fact that the Copenhagen article actually stated ”"Statistics Denmark has never stated the geographical area of urban Copenhagen." Copenhagen urban area consists of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Albertslund, Brøndby, Gentofte, Gladsaxe, Glostrup, Herlev, Hvidovre, Lyngby-Taarbæk, Rødovre, Tårnby and Vallensbæk and parts of Ballerup, Rudersdal (earlier Søllerød), Furesø (earlier Værløse) as well as Ishøj city og Greve Strand city. As it can be seen here according to DST: http://www.dst.dk/pukora/epub/Nyt/2011/NR171.pdf

To sum it up about this area and the urban area:
 * Copenhagen urban area consists of parts of Ballerup municpality (not all of it).
 * Copenhagen urban area consists of parts of Søllerød (now Rudersdal) municipality (not all of it).
 * Copenhagen urban area consists of parts of Værløse (now Furesø) municipality (not all of it).
 * Copenhagen urban area does not contain Dragør municipality.
 * In 2007 both Greve Strand and Ishøj city have been added (not their municipalities) but they haven't been included in this figure.
 * In those municipalities in which all of the population live in the urban area does not mean all of the area should be included. Not all of the area of the municipalities are urbanized, e.g. not all of Copenhagen municipality is urbanized (especially parts of Amager) and netiher is much of Tårnby municipality which contains an airport and Saltholm island. Albertslund and Lyngby-Taarbæk contains large un-urbanized areas as well and there are parts of other municipalities as well.

Anyway if that section should make just a bit sense then Dragør municipality should be removed and Ishøj and Greve municipalities added. Then we have included all municipalities which have at least a part of them in the urban area. Christian2381 (talk) 11:08, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

What the urban area consists of
What I also forgot to mention is that actually only the population of 7 municipalities are totally within the urban area and those are Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Gentofte, Gladsaxe, Glostrup, Hvidovre and Rødovre. The 6 municipalities Brøndby, Herlev, Albertlund, Lyngby-Taarbæk, Tårnby and Vallensbæk all have a small part of the population which is not a part of the urban area. So those municipalities are also only partly within the urban area.

What we have is:

Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Gentofte, Gladsaxe, Glostrup, Hvidovre, Rødovre (all of the population is a part of the urban area).

Brøndby, Herlev, Albertlund, Lyngby-Taarbæk, Tårnby, Vallensbæk (Is not mentioned in the article but only a part of them are in the urban area).

Ballerup, Ishøj, Greve, Furesø (as mentioned only partly within the urban area).

As taken from 'Statistikbanken' at Statistics Denmark´s homepage:

Folketal pr. 1. januar efter byer og tid 	2011

000-01100 Hovedstadsområdet			1 199 224

101-00101 Københavns Kommune			 539 542

101-01100 København (del af Hovedstadsområdet)	 539 542

147-00147 Frederiksberg Kommune			  98 782

147-01100 Frederiksberg (del af Hovedstadsområdet) 98 782

151-00151 Ballerup Kommune			  47 930

151-01100 Ballerup (del af Hovedstadsområdet)	  38 890

151-10223 Smørumnedre (del af flere kommuner)	   8 487

151-99997 Uden fast bopæl			     315

151-99999 Landdistrikter			     238

153-00153 Brøndby Kommune			  34 021

153-01100 Brøndby (del af Hovedstadsområdet)	  33 824

153-99997 Uden fast bopæl			     144

153-99999 Landdistrikter			      53

157-00157 Gentofte Kommune			  71 714

157-01100 Gentofte (del af Hovedstadsområdet)	  71 714

159-00159 Gladsaxe Kommune			  64 951

159-01100 Gladsaxe (del af Hovedstadsområdet)	  64 951

161-00161 Glostrup Kommune			  21 384

161-01100 Glostrup (del af Hovedstadsområdet)	  21 384

163-00163 Herlev Kommune			  26 597

163-01100 Herlev (del af Hovedstadsområdet)	  26 506

163-99997 Uden fast bopæl			      68

163-99999 Landdistrikter			      23

165-00165 Albertslund Kommune			  27 800

165-01100 Albertslund (del af Hovedstadsområdet)  27 475

165-99997 Uden fast bopæl			     154

165-99999 Landdistrikter			     171

167-00167 Hvidovre Kommune			  50 081

167-01100 Hvidovre (del af Hovedstadsområdet)	  50 081

173-00173 Lyngby-Taarbæk Kommune		  52 754

173-01100 Lyngby-Taarbæk (del af Hovedstadsområdet) 52 446

173-99997 Uden fast bopæl			     164

173-99999 Landdistrikter			     144

175-00175 Rødovre Kommune			  36 524

175-01100 Rødovre (del af Hovedstadsområdet)	  36 524

183-00183 Ishøj Kommune				  20 797

183-01100 Ishøj (del af Hovedstadsområdet)	  18 933

183-15889 Torslunde				     245

183-18390 Ishøj Landsby				   1 039

183-18597 Vestervang					0

183-99997 Uden fast bopæl			      82

183-99999 Landdistrikter			     498

185-00185 Tårnby Kommune			  40 835

185-01100 Tårnby (del af Hovedstadsområdet)	  40 485

185-99997 Uden fast bopæl		             112

185-99999 Landdistrikter	                     238

187-00187 Vallensbæk Kommune			  14 445

187-01100 Vallensbæk (del af Hovedstadsområdet)	  13 880

187-18391 Vallensbæk Landsby			     490

187-99997 Uden fast bopæl			      23

187-99999 Landdistrikter			      52

190-00190 Furesø Kommune			  38 286

190-01100 Furesø (del af Hovedstadsområdet)	   3 621

190-10221 Kirke Værløse				   1 000

190-10223 Smørumnedre (del af flere kommuner)	   1 184

190-10237 Farum					  18 521

190-10241 Birkerød (del af flere kommuner)	      11

190-11048 Værløse				  12 849

190-99997 Uden fast bopæl			     156

190-99999 Landdistrikter			     944

Christian2381 (talk) 15:49, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

"Hovedstadsområdet" does not equal urban Copenhagen
I don't see the purpose in claiming the official "Hovedstadsområdet" to be equal to urban Copenhagen. "Hovedstadområdet" is just a term used for statistics. It does not equal f.i. the UN's "200 meter between buildings" recommendations. On Saltholm island (17 km2)the population has the last ten years varied between 3 and 5 people. Would anyone state that this seems "urban" ? The island Peberholm has never had any human people living there. And the same goes for the most of extended part of Amager island. The extention of western Amager was made during 1930's, 1940's and into the 1950's. With very few exeptions, the whole extention is unbuild, not planned, not even agricultured and it's only purpose was to give the southern part of Copenhagen harbour shelter. Building on this from the sea gained land, is expensive due to filling consist of large stones combined with sand and plaster. There are agricultural areas on Amager island and even a small beech forest (Kongelunden), but at the extended part of the island the soil is not possible to use even for agricultural purposes. The only buildings on the enlargement resides eighter close to the harbour, with the Balla Center and surroundings as only exceptions. Still this is included in "Hovedstadsområdet". I do not deny the exitence of "Hovedstadsområdet" but it does include rather large areas which isn't urban. I has no implication on the number of inhabitants (other then the 3,4 or 5 people living on Saltholm island)83.249.38.85 (talk) 20:29, 6 February 2012 (UTC)


 * The term ”Hovedstadsområdet” is used about both the urban area and the metropolitan area. Statistics Denmark do use the term ”Hovedstadsområdet” about the urban area though.


 * Saltholm is not included in Copenhagen urban area. In ”statistikbanken” you can actually see that of Tårnby municipalitys 40,835 citizens only 40,485 are counted as a part of the urban area:


 * 185-00185 Tårnby Kommune 40 835
 * 185-01100 Tårnby (del af Hovedstadsområdet) 40 485
 * 185-99997 Uden fast bopæl 112
 * 185-99999 Landdistrikter 238


 * The other areas that you mention are not a part of the urban either, Statistics Denmark do not calculate the area of urban areas, but I would estimate the area of the urban area as defined by DST is about 315 km2. So you can´t say that the urban area includes more than 100 km2 of non-urban areas when DST never have stated the area of it - so I don´t know why you say that? The 455.61 km2 area figure that has been shown on wikipedia was made up by someone based on some municipalities (and even included Dragør municipality)Christian2381 (talk) 21:05, 6 February 2012 (UTC).


 * Just wanted to add: The section "Hovedstadsområdet vs. urban area of Copenhagen" should be deleted. DST clearly states that they followed the UN definition. Look here (section 1.2 Statistiske begreber): http://www.dst.dk/da/Statistik/dokumentation/Varedeklarationer/emnegruppe/emne.aspx?sysrid=766
 * "1.2 Statistiske begreber
 * En by defineres som en naturligt sammenhængende bebyggelse med mindst 200 indbyggere. At bebyggelsen er naturligt sammenhængende vil sige, at afstanden mellem husene normalt ikke overstiger 200 meter medmindre afbrydelsen skyldes større gennemgående veje (uden direkte adgangsveje mellem bebyggelserne) kirkegårde, sportspladser, parkerings- og parkanlæg, jernbane- og lagerarealer, jorde under udstykning og lignende.
 * Spredt bebyggelse langs en landevej henregnes ikke som hørende til en by - også selv om afstanden imellem der er mindre end 200 meter.
 * For at 2 byer kan klassificeres som vokset sammen forudsætter det både, at afstanden mellem derm er under 200 samt, at de ud fra et topografisk skøn hører naturligt sammen udover de begrænsninger nævnt ovenfor.
 * Kort og Matrikelstyrelsen foretager afgrænsningen af byernes udstrækning ud fra ovennævnte kriterier - i tvivlstilfælde tages der kontakt til kommunen.
 * Definitionen bygger på FN's retningslinier for afgrænsning af byområder." Christian2381 (talk) 22:48, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Kort og Matrikelstyrelsen and Statistics Denmark state that they use the UN definition, and they even state, that they've used it since 1999, so the entire section should go. It is completely disproportionate to include an essay about Amager. Western Amager (Kalvebod Fælled) can be considered a nature reserve, and parks and similar can be included in the UN defition if the same settlement continues on both sides of it. Large public structures are also included, which explains why Copenhagen Airport is included as part of the urban area. The airport is located next to Dragør, so consequently, Dragør is included too. Whether Søvang and Ullerup on the southern extreme of Amager is part of the area or not, is no doubt decided on whether a 200 meter zone free of housing exits, and looking on Google Maps, the area seems to feature scattered houses, so they probably aren't far enough from each other to create a 200 meter belt. Saltholm and Peberholm are irrelevant. The old pensioner's website is not a credible source, and I can't see any maps there, except one on her front page which is not a credible source, since doesn't have the year indicated and its resolution is quite low, so will naturally show the main settlements, which are somewhat scattered, but not show the various houses scattered between these settlements. In addition, Wikipedia reports sourced material from credible sources, it doesn't do in house investigation, so any allegation that Amager isn't part of Urban Copenhagen should come from a credible, indenpent source. No such documentation seems to have been presented. Valentinian T / C 02:04, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
 * I've tried to clean it up a bit, and removed the link to the pensioner's website. Valentinian T / C 02:16, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

Is Skåne County, Sweden, really considered part of the "urban area of Copenhagen", Denmark?
That sounds really strange. VdSV9• ♫ 20:14, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

Official maps
Have a look at these: https://www.statistikbanken.dk/statbank5a/Graphics/mapanalyser.asp?maintable=BY1&lang=0 https://planinfo.erhvervsstyrelsen.dk/sites/default/files/fingerplan2019_stor.png --Wrp (talk) 06:37, 5 May 2020 (UTC)wrp