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==Abolition== A [[Strukturreformen|government proposal]] in 2004 called for the counties to be abolished and replaced by five large [[regions of Denmark|regions]] with [[health care]] as their main responsibilities: two regions in [[Jutland]], two regions in [[Zealand (Denmark)|Zealand]] and one region covering [[Funen]] and the southernmost part of Jutland. The proposal also required the municipalities to merge reducing them from 271 to 98, with a minimum of 20,000 inhabitants in each municipality, although some exceptions were made to this rule. In 2007, 25 municipalities had fewer than 30,000 inhabitants each, with the average number of inhabitants over 55,500 per municipality. Only the [[United Kingdom]] and [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]] had more populous entities at the lowest political administrative level. The reform was confirmed by the [[Folketing|Danish Parliament]] on 24 February 2005 and the counties were abolished on 1 January 2007.
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