North Jutland Region North Jutland Region The North Jutland Region (), on one official website altered to North Denmark Region, is an administrative region of Denmark established on 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 271 before 1 January 2006, when Ærø Municipality was created, to 98. North Jutland Region has 11 municipalities. The reform was implemented in Denmark on 1 January 2007. The North Jutland Region consists of the
Third-country economic relationships with the European Union per capita to show the relative economic development level of the different countries. Reference values for the EU average, highest and lowest are included. Third-country economic relationships with the European Union The European Union has a number of relationships with nations that are not formally part of the Union. According to the European Union's official site, and a statement by Commissioner Günter Verheugen, the aim is to have a ring of countries, sharing EU's democratic ideals and joining them in further integration without necessarily becoming full member states. The European Free Trade Association (EFTA) was created to allow European countries