names of danish counties from 2007

Please please use the nineteenth century ones for genealogy

[if you cannot find Ææ Øø Åå -- use -- Ae ae Oe oe Aa aa - in google too]

1660 to 1970 http://www.clicketyclick.dk/amt-herred-sogn/sognekort/Amter.gif

Counties (Amter) County (Amt)

Bornholm
Frederiksborg
Haderslev
Hjørring
Holbæk
København (Copenhagen)
Maribo
Odense
Præstø
Randers
Ribe
Ringkøbing
Roskilde
Skanderborg
Sorø
Svendborg
Sønderborg
Thisted
Tønder
Vejle
Viborg
Åbenrå (Aabenraa)
Ålborg (Aalborg)
Århus (Aarhus)


https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/da.html

Administrative divisions:

metropolitan Denmark - 14 counties (amter, singular - amt) and 2 boroughs* (amtskommuner, singular - amtskommune); Arhus, Bornholm, Frederiksberg*, Frederiksborg, Fyn, Kobenhavn, Kobenhavn (Copenhagen)*, Nordjylland, Ribe, Ringkobing, Roskilde, Sonderjylland, Storstrom, Vejle, Vestsjalland, Viborg [SIC no ø or æ or å]

note: as a result of an extensive 2005 local government reform, with 2006 being a transition year,
275 municipalities will be merged to 99 by 1 January 2007,

and the 14 counties will be reorganized into five regions

http://www.byhistorie.dk/kommuner/kort.aspx?artikel=regioner2007.xml

http://www.regioner.dk/

Region Hovedstaden
Region Midtjylland
Region Nordjylland
Region Sjælland
Region Syddanmark

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very useful
http://www.clicketyclick.dk/amt-herred-sogn/index_en.php

and "here you have the possibility of searching in a database, containing 44241 Danish place names with info about their Parish, Community and County according to the county-division of 1970."

http://www.krabsen.dk/stednavnebase/


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