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
Copenhagen metropolitan area 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). It should not be confused with the Øresund Region or the Capital Region of Denmark. The area has been planned according to the Finger Plan, which has given it six fingers of S-trains and a western connection S-line ("Ringbanen" or line