Region Syddanmark (English: Region South Denmark) is a future administrative region created under the Danish Municipal Reform, which replaces the traditional counties ("amter") with five larger regions. At the same time, smaller municipalities will be merged into larger units, cutting the number of municipalities from 271 to 98. The reform will be implemented in Denmark on 1 January 2007. The merger of the Funish municipalities of Ærøskøbing and Marstal was implemented on January 1 2006, one year before the main reform.

The new Region Syddanmark will consist of the former counties of Funen, Ribe and South Jutland, adding ten municipalities from the former Vejle County. The territories formerly belonging to Vejle County will become the new municipalities of Fredericia (unchanged by the reform), Vejle (a merger of Vejle, Børkop, parts of Egtved, Give, and Jelling) and Kolding (a merger of Kolding, parts of Lunderskov, Vamdrup, and parts of both Egtved and Christiansfeld - the latter from South Jutland County). A total of 78 municipalities will be combined to a total of 22 new units (listed below).

Municipalities

* Aabenraa municipality
* Assens municipality
* Billund municipality
* Esbjerg municipality
* Faaborg-Midtfyn municipality
* Fanø municipality
* Fredericia municipality
* Haderslev municipality
* Kerteminde municipality
* Kolding municipality
* Langeland municipality
* Middelfart municipality
* Nordfyn municipality
* Nyborg municipality
* Odense municipality
* Svendborg municipality
* Sønderborg municipality
* Tønder municipality
* Varde municipality
* Vejen municipality
* Vejle municipality
* Ærø municipality

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