Provinces of Denmark Copenhagen Surroundings, North Zealand and East Zealand together comprise the Copenhagen metropolitan area. They are together both the planning area for the Copenhagen area, also known as the Finger Plan and the Copenhagen Public transport area. Close to 2 million people live in their joint area of about 2,770 square kilometres. This is also the best area to use for comparisons with other cities of similar size. Occasionally the East Jutland province, with around 850,000 inhabitants in 5,841 square kilometres, is labeled as Greater Aarhus, however less than 40% of its population lives in Aarhus municipality. Provinces of Denmark The
Ministry of Environment (Denmark) name. In a press release on 21 March 2007, the ministry announced that it would be hosting the COP-15 summit in 2009. COP 15 took place in Copenhagen from 7 December to 18 December 2009. Ministry of Environment (Denmark) Ministry of the Environment of Denmark () is the Danish ministry in charge of near all matters concerning Environmental issues in Denmark. The head office is in Copenhagen. Created in 1971 as the Ministry of Pollution Combating (""Ministeriet for forureningsbekæmpelse""), it changed its name in 1973 to the current Ministry of the Environment. However, from 1994 to 2005 it was known