nabokommunerne

Nabokommunerne is the Danish term for the set of municipalities that share a boundary with a given municipality. The concept is widely used in regional planning, transport planning, and public service coordination, where neighboring municipalities are considered as a functional unit in addition to the core municipality.

Nabokommunerne are important for practical cooperation, because many services and infrastructures cross municipal borders, including roads, bus services, water and wastewater systems, emergency response, and environmental management. Danish law allows and sometimes encourages inter-municipal agreements and partnerships to address these cross-border needs.

In planning practice, nabokommunerne are identified in municipal and regional plans, development plans, and cross-border cooperation initiatives, including collaboration within the regional authorities. Statistical and administrative data may be compared across nabokommunerne to inform policy decisions.

In Denmark, there is a national framework of municipalities and regions; while the term is not a legal category in itself, it serves as a working concept to describe neighboring administrative units that interact regularly for planning and service delivery. The concept is similar to neighboring municipalities used in other Nordic countries.