🇩🇰 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.
The municipality is an amalgamation of three formerly independent towns, and several other local settlements, all close to one another. The site of its municipal council is in Charlottenlund. The three original towns were Gentofte, Vangede and Ordrup. It later included Tuborg, Skovshoved, Dyssegård, Hellerup, Jægersborg, and Klampenborg.
Neighboring municipalities are Lyngby-Taarbæk to the north, Gladsaxe to the west, and Copenhagen to the south. The Øresund, the strait that separates Zealand from Sweden, is to the east.
Gentofte municipality was not merged with other municipalities in the 1 January 2007 nationwide Kommunalreformen.
Attractions • Bellavista housing estate and Bellevue Teatret designed by Arne Jacobsen • Bernstorff Palace • Charlottenlund palace, park and forest • Ordrupgaard – art museum, French impressionists, Paul Gauguin, Danish paintings from around 1900, varying special exhibitions. • Gentofte Sportspark – football stadium, home stadium of Hellerup IK • Kildeskovshallen- swimming pool (including a 50m pool, 25m pool, a children's pool, a baby pool with warm water basin, and also Finnish saunas), including also other facilities such as two halls for ball game, a physiotherapist clinique, fitness centre, conference rooms, and a restaurant. • Øregård Museum.
Gentofte has a population of over 74,548 people. Gentofte also forms one of the centres of the wider Capital Region which has a population of over 1,866,088 people.
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Twin Towns, Sister Cities Gentofte has links with:
🇸🇪 Halmstad, Sweden 🇫🇮 Hanko, Finland 🇩🇪 Husum, Germany 🇬🇱 Sermersooq, Greenland 🇭🇺 Soroksár, Hungary 🇳🇴 Stord, Norway🇷🇺 Khoroshyovo-Mnyovniki 55.767
🇩🇰 Lyngby-Taarbæk 55.783
🏴 Motherwell 55.784
🇷🇺 Balashikha 55.797
🇱🇹 Radviliškis 55.8
🇩🇰 Charlottenlund 55.751
🏴 East Kilbride 55.75
🇷🇺 Zheleznodorozhnyy 55.75
🇷🇺 Central AO 55.75
🇷🇺 Presnensky 55.747
🇷🇺 Dorogomilovo District 55.746
🇩🇰 Charlottenlund 12.552
🇩🇰 Copenhagen 12.568
🇮🇹 Mazara del Vallo 12.583
🇩🇪 Bad Belzig 12.593
🇩🇪 Traunstein 12.633
Locations Near: Gentofte 12.5477,55.7542
🇩🇰 Charlottenlund 12.552,55.751 d: 0.5
🇩🇰 Lyngby-Taarbæk 12.5,55.783 d: 4.4
🇩🇰 Gladsaxe 12.472,55.745 d: 4.9
🇩🇰 Frederiksberg 12.527,55.677 d: 8.7
🇩🇰 Copenhagen 12.568,55.676 d: 8.8
🇩🇰 Rudersdal 12.489,55.834 d: 9.6
🇩🇰 Hvidovre 12.473,55.658 d: 11.7
🇩🇰 Hørsholm 12.5,55.867 d: 12.9
🇩🇰 Ballerup 12.365,55.73 d: 11.7
🇩🇰 Albertslund 12.35,55.65 d: 17
Antipodal to: Gentofte -167.452,-55.754
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