Halsnæs Kommune is a municipality (Danish

Danish language

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, kommune) in Region Hovedstaden

Region Hovedstaden

The Capital Region of Denmark is an administrative region of Denmark established on January 1, 2007 as part of the 2007 Danish Municipal Reform, which replaced the traditional counties with five larger regions. At the same time, smaller municipalities were merged into larger units, cutting the...

 ("Capital Region"). The municipality covers an area of 120 km², and has a total population of 30,824 (2008).
Its name comes from Halsnæs, the peninsula that forms the western part of the municipality.

The municipality was created on January 1, 2007 as a merger of the former municipalities of Frederiksværk

Frederiksværk

Frederiksværk is a town with a population of 12,257 in Halsnæs Municipality on Zealand in Region Hovedstaden in Denmark.-History:A French cannon founder, Peyrembert, received permission to build a cannon factory here...

 and Hundested

Hundested

Hundested is a town with a population of 8,861 and a former municipality in Region Hovedstaden in the northern part of the island of Zealand in eastern Denmark....

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At first the merged municipality wore the hyphenated name Frederiksværk-Hundested, but it was changed to Halsnæs on January 1, 2008. Its mayor as of 2010 is Helge Friis, a member of the Social Democrats

Social Democrats (Denmark)

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 (Socialdemokraterne) political party

Politics of Denmark

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