The Counties of Denmark () were former subdivisions of metropolitan Denmark and overseas territories, used primarily for administrative regions, with each county having its own council with substantial powers. Originally there had been twenty-four counties, but the number was reduced to roughly fourteen in 1970 – the number fluctuated slightly over the next three decades. In 2006 there were thirteen traditional counties as well as three municipalities with county status (the island of Bornholm, which was a county from 1660 until 2002, became a "regional municipality" with county powers, but only briefly from 2003 until 2006). On 1 January 2007 the counties were abolished and replaced by five larger "regions" which, unlike the counties, are not municipalities.