Copenhagen metropolitan area Copenhagen metropolitan area The Copenhagen metropolitan area or Metropolitan Copenhagen (, 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 densely-populated core surrounded by suburban settlements. According to OECD, the Copenhagen Metropolitan Region had close to 2.4 million inhabitants in 2005, which is the largest metropolitan area of any Scandinavian city. The metropolitan area has several current definitions and also some historical, now defunct, definitions. The most widely accepted
The Lakes, Copenhagen who declared it an independent state, separate from Denmark. There are plans to create a park around Sankt Jørgens Sø, with the dual use of acting as a detention basin for cloudburst flood waters. Likely as a consequence of Global Warming, cloudbusts have become much more common in Denmark, making the sewerage pipes designed for the old weather patterns insufficient; using Sankt Jørgens Sø as a detention basin is just one of many such projects in Copenhagen. The municipality of Copenhagen together with Nordic Innovation, an organisation under Nordic Council of Ministers, is launching an extensive climate adaptation and urban