COPENHAGEN
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Copenhagen is located on the eastern shore of the island of Zealand (Sjælland)
and partly on the island of Amager. Copenhagen faces the Øresund, the strait
of water that seperates Denmark from Sweden and connects the North Sea with
the Baltic Sea. Copenhagen is across from the Swedish towns of Malmö and
Landskrona.
1,116,979 people live in Metropolitan Copenhagen (Storkøbenhavn), of which
502,204 live in the Municipality of Copenhagen, 91,721 in the Municipality
of Frederiksberg, 68,704 in the Municipality of Gentofte and another 454,350
in nearby municipalities. An even larger Metropolitan region is known as
Hovedstadsregionen, consists of the Municipalities of Copenhagen and
Frederiksberg and the counties of Copenhagen, Frederiksborg and Roskilde.
The population is 1,823,109. Copenhagen is also a part of the Øresund region,
consisting of Eastern Zealand and Western Scania (in Sweden), and has a
population of 2.8 million people. |
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