6 FACTS ABOUT THE ØRESUND REGION | GEOGRAPHY ØRESUND TRENDS 2012 FACTS ABOUT THE ØRESUND REGION GEOGRAPHY side. Measured in square metres, Scania Administratively, the Øresund Region is the largest, but about two-thirds of the consists of the 33 municipalities that Geographically, the Øresund Region 3.8 million inhabitants in the Øresund make up the Scania region on the Swed- consists of Zealand, Lolland, Falster, Region live on the Danish side, which ish side, while on the Danish side there Møn and Bornholm on the Danish has 2.5 million inhabitants while there are the 46 municipalities that make up side and Scania on the Swedish side of are 1.3 million on the Swedish side. the Capital Region and Region Zea- Øresund – hence the name. Adminis- land. tratively, it consists of three regions: the The Øresund Region includes the capi- Capital Region of Denmark and Region tal of Denmark, Copenhagen, and Swe- Zealand on the Danish side and Scania den's third largest city, Malmö. Copen- Population figures in the Øresund on the Swedish side. hagen-Malmö is the largest urban area Region’s six largest municipalities (mid-2012) in Scandinavia. The Øresund Region’s Danish and Swed- Copenhagen 552,000 ish sides are connected in the south by the The average population density is 179 Frederiksberg 101,000 16 km long Øresund Bridge between Co- inhabitants per square kilometre: high- Roskilde 83,000 penhagen and Malmö, which opened in est on the Danish side with 258 inhabit- Malmö 305,000 2000, and in the north, by the ferry link ants per square kilometre and lowest on Helsingborg 131,000 between Elsinore and Helsingborg. the Swedish side with 110 inhabitants Lund 112,000 per square kilometre. There is signifi- Source: Statistics Denmark and The Øresund Region covers a total area cant geographic variation: from dense Statistics Sweden. of 21,203 square kilometres – equiva- metropolitan areas such as Copenhagen lent to half the entire area of Denmark and Malmö to the relatively sparsely – with 9,834 square kilometres on the populated rural municipalities of Lol- Danish side and 11,369 on the Swedish land and in eastern Scania. Osby FACTS ABOUT THE ØRESUND REGION | GEOGRAPHY ØRESUND TRENDS 2012 7 Båstad Örkelljunga Östra Ängelhom Göinge Höganäs Hässle- Perstorp holm Bro- mölla Åstorp Klippan Helsing- Gribskov borg Bjuv Helsingør Kristianstad Frederiks- Svalöv Höör værk- Hundested Fredens- Hillerødborg SCANIA Lands- Hørsholm krona Hörby Allerød Eslöv Odsherred Frederikssund Rudersdal Furesø Kävlinge Capital Region Egedal Lomma Lund Høje- Sjöbo Kalund- Holbæk Lejre Taastrup Burlöv Staffans- Roskilde torp borg Tomelilla Greve Malmö Simrishamn Region Zealand Svedala Solrød Sorø Skurup Ystad Ring- Køge Vellinge sted Trelle- borg Slagelse Stevns Faxe Næstved Capital Region Lyngby-Taarbæk Born- holm Glad- Gentofte saxe Vording- Her- borg Ballerup lev Rød- ovre Frederiks- Albertslund Glos- berg trup Copenhagen Brønd- by Hvid- Val- ovre Lolland Ishøj lens- Guldborg- Tårnby sund bæk Dragør.