ABSTRACT
LIKE most other great cities, Copenhagen long ago burst the formal, legal boundaries set for the municipality of Copenhagen. Moreover, Copenhagen has not merely spread beyond its formal boundaries into the neighbouring municipalities but has, because of incorporations effected in the early part of this century, encircled a totally independent municipality, Frederiksberg. These two municipalities together with the directly bordering municipality, Gentofte, have during the last thirty years been treated in all official, administrative, and statistical publications as a corporate body known as the capital ofDenmark.I
The total population of this capital numbered on January 1, 1952, 970,100 inhabitants, of whom 764,100 lived in Copenhagen, II7,900 in Frederiksberg, and 88,100 in Gentofte. The three metropolitan municipalities together cover an area of 10,876 hectares, of which Copenhagen has 7,468 hectares, Frederiksberg 870 hectares, and Gentofte 2,538 hectares.
