Frederiksberg

Frederiksberg is a Danish town, seat of the Frederiksberg Municipality, in the country's Region Hovedstaden (Capital City Region). With a population in 2009 of 95,029, it is the fifth largest Danish city after Copenhagen, Århus, Odense and Ålborg. Frederiksberg, which lies west of central Copenhagen, is completely surrounded by boroughs forming part of the city of Copenhagen – the result of an expansion of the Copenhagen city boundary in 1901 which, nevertheless, did not include the town in the list of municipalities to be incorporated in the enlarged area. Frederiksberg is thus effectively a municipal island within the country's capital – a unique phenomenon in present-day Europe. Other than administratively, however, it is largely...