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Denmark is a peninsula and a scatter of islands, and its five regions are cut along that geography: Jutland is split three ways, and the islands of Funen and Zealand are shared out between the other two. Knowing you are in Denmark says little about where, because the country is small enough to cross in a few hours and flat enough that very little in a round gives the region away. The region, or region, is the first unit worth knowing. This page and the game cover all five, and the clues that tell you which one you are standing in.
The five regions were created by the 2007 structural reform, which replaced 13 counties (amter) with five regions and merged 271 municipalities into 98. A region is not a tier of government with taxing powers: its one large job is the hospitals, with regional development and public transport planning beside it, and it is run by a council of 41 members elected every four years. Everything else a citizen deals with belongs to the municipality.
The map is not the one of twenty years ago. Maps from before 2007 show 13 counties, with names like Ribe, Vejle and Viborg that survive only as towns, and Copenhagen as a county and a municipality of its own. If a map shows Funen County or Roskilde County it is from before the reform.
Bornholm is part of the Capital Region. The island sits in the Baltic at 15 degrees east, nearer Sweden and Poland than Copenhagen, and it is the one piece of the Capital Region that is nowhere near the capital. On this map it is drawn where it really is, with open sea between it and Zealand.
The traps are in the names.
Region Zealand is not all of Zealand. The island of Zealand is shared between two regions: the capital and its suburbs, and the rest of the island, which is Region Zealand and also takes in Lolland, Falster and Møn.
Central and Southern Denmark share a border, and the line between them is not a river or a fjord, so it is easy to place a town on the wrong side of it. Vejle is in the south, Horsens in the middle.
The Capital Region: Copenhagen and the north east of Zealand, and Bornholm out in the Baltic. It is the most populated region, holds the capital and its suburbs, and is administered from Hillerød. Anything on a small island in the Baltic is this one.
North Denmark: the top of Jutland, cut almost in two by the Limfjord and ending at the sand spit of Skagen. Aalborg is its city. It is the least populated of the five and the one with the fewest road signs pointing anywhere else.
Southern Denmark: the south of Jutland down to the German border, and all of Funen. Odense, Esbjerg and Kolding are all in it. It is the region a player most often loses, because half of it is an island and the island is not near the rest.
Five: the Capital Region, Central Denmark, North Denmark, Region Zealand and Southern Denmark. They replaced 13 counties in 2007.
Hillerød (Capital Region), Viborg (Central Denmark), Aalborg (North Denmark), Sorø (Region Zealand) and Vejle (Southern Denmark). The seat of a region is not always its biggest city: Aarhus is the largest city in Central Denmark and Odense the largest in Southern Denmark.
Yes. The island is a single municipality, Bornholm Regional Municipality, and it belongs to the Capital Region even though it lies in the Baltic Sea about 150 kilometres from Copenhagen.
No. They are self-governing parts of the Danish Realm and are not part of any Danish region, which is why neither is on this map.
Mostly health care: hospitals, psychiatry and the general practitioner and specialist agreements. They also plan regional development and run some public transport. They cannot levy taxes and are funded by the state and the municipalities.
Central and Southern Denmark, which share a long border in Jutland and have no obvious feature on it, and Region Zealand against the Capital Region, because both are on the island of Zealand.
The tier below this one is Denmark Municipalities, and the five regions are its groups. The other European administrative maps here are Norway Counties, Sweden Counties, Germany States and Finland Regions.
