Copenhagen metropolitan area

The modern post 2007 version includes the four provinces Københavns by (Copenhagen city), Københavns omegn, Nordsjælland and Østsjælland, with a total land area of 2 778 km2 and over 2 million inhabitants (16 March 2018;updated statistics from 1 January 2018 on cities (Danish byer, (singular) by) published later).It has been defined administratively by the former Capital Region and is also known locally as HT-området (area once served by the publicly owned mass transit company) because it was the zone where the capital area public traffic company formerly known as HT operated (now Movia), and was therefore the limit for how far you could go on a Copenhagen bus or train-ticket.Hence, a better area for comparison with other regions, bi-lateral or national ones, is a lot narrower and includes the four Danish provinces Copenhagen by, Copenhagen omegn, Nordsjælland and Østsjælland with a total area of only 2.768,6 square kilometres[13] with 2,045,259 inhabitants as of 1 January 2019[14] And on the Swedish side the 17 Scanian municipalities that either has direct border to the Øresund Sea or borders to a such municipality.Copenhagen metropolitan area is most commonly recognized, and before 2007 official, equal to the Danish part of this "core".The four mentioned Danish provinces, with two million inhabitants at a land area of 2.768,6 km2 and a population density of 722 people per square kilometre.While the administrational Region Hovedstaden includes the remote Baltic Sea island Bornholm, but excludes important suburbs south-west and west of the city as well as the locally important towns Køge and Roskilde which both are largely build together with the Danish capital through newer suburban areas.OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) defines the Copenhagen metropolitan area with a population of 2,390,000 inhabitants as of 2009.