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Gentofte Municipality
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municipality in the Capital Region of Denmark
Key facts
- Country
- Denmark
- Region
- Hovedstade
- Established
- 1 January 1842
- Seat
- Charlottenlund
- Mayor
- Michael Fenger ( C )
- Total
- 25.54 km (9.86 sq mi)
- Density
- 2,941/km (7,616/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
- Website
- gentofte .dk
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Denmark
- Named after
- Gentofte
- Country
- Denmark
- Located in
- Eastern Denmark
- Capital
- Charlottenlund
- Population
- 74550
- Area
- 25.60
- Elevation
- 19
- Head of government
- Michael Fenger
- Shares border with
- Kävlinge Municipality
- Legal form
- municipality of Denmark
- Official website
- gentofte.dk
- Image
- Gentofte Sø (Denmark).jpg
Show 10 more facts
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Gentofte Municipality
- Commons category
- Gentofte Kommune
- topic's main category
- Category:Gentofte Municipality
- twinned administrative body
- Sermersooq
- category for people who died here
- Category:Deaths in Gentofte Municipality
- postal code
- 2920
- male population
- 35524
- female population
- 39026
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Gentofte Municipality
- inception
- 1842-01-01
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Encyclopedic overview
Gentofte Municipality (Danish: Gentofte Kommune) is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in the Capital Region of Denmark (Region Hovedstaden) on the east coast of the island of Zealand (Sjælland) in eastern Denmark. It covers an area of 25.54 km (9.86 sq mi), and has a total population of 75,106 (1 January 2026). Since 17 May 2021, its mayor has been Michael Fenger, a member of the Conservative People's Party (Det Konservative Folkeparti).
Gentofte is the most wealthy municipality in Denmark and consists of several fashionable Copenhagen suburbs such as Hellerup and Charlottenlund.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gentofte Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.