Region of Southern Denmark (dnk)

Region of Southern Denmark

Region of Southern Denmark ranks 17,725th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Brześć Kujawski, Merredin, Western Australia, and Wenchang. The most famous people from Region of Southern Denmark are Peder Pedersen. Region of Southern Denmark has been the birth place of many cyclists. Region of Southern Denmark is located in Denmark.

The Region of Southern Denmark is an administrative region of Denmark established on Monday 1 January 2007 as part of the 2007 Danish Municipal Reform, which abolished the traditional counties ("amter") and set up five larger regions. At the same time, smaller municipalities were merged into larger units, cutting the number of municipalities from 270 before 1 January 2007 to 98. The reform diminished the power of the regional level dramatically in favor of the local level and the central government in Copenhagen. The Region of Southern Denmark has 22 municipalities. The reform was implemented in Denmark on 1 January 2007, although the merger of the Funish municipalities of Ærøskøbing and Marstal, being a part of the reform, was given the go-ahead to be implemented on Sunday 1 January 2006, one year before the main reform. It borders Schleswig-Holstein (Germany) to the south and Central Denmark Region to the north and is connected to Region Zealand via the Great Belt Fixed Link. Read more on Wikipedia