Copenhagen metropolitan area

Copenhagen metropolitan area Hovedstadsområdet
Metropolitan area
Copenhagen city center at night
Copenhagen Metropolitan Area (in blue)
Country	Denmark
Largest city	Copenhagen
Area
• Metro	2,778 km2 (1,073 sq mi)
Population
• Metro	2,400,000 (OECD)
• Metro density	864/km2 (2,240/sq mi)
GDP [1]
• Metro	€178.8 billion
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)

The Copenhagen metropolitan area or Metropolitan Copenhagen (Danish: Hovedstadsområdet, pronounced [ˈhoːð̩stæðsʌmˌʁɔːðət], literally "The Capital Area") is a large commuter belt (the area in which it is practical to commute to work) surrounding Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark. It includes Copenhagen Municipality, Frederiksberg and surrounding municipalities stretching westward across Zealand. It has a densely-populated core surrounded by suburban settlements.

The metropolitan area has several current definitions and also some historical, now defunct, definitions. The most widely accepted is the area which is strategically managed by the Finger Plan. 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).^[2] It should not be confused with the Øresund Region or the Capital Region of Denmark. The public transit company of all of East Denmark, except Bornholm, is called Movia.