Fladså was a municipality (

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, '' kommune'') in

Storstrøm County Storstrøms Amt (English ''Storstrøm County'') is a former county ( Danish: ''amt'') on the islands of Zealand (''Sjælland''), Møn, Falster, Lolland and some minor islands in southeast Denmark. The county was formed on 1 April 1970, comprising ...

in south

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. The municipality covered an area of 133 km², and had a total population of 7,581 (2005). Its last mayor was Hans R. Hansen, a member of the Venstre (Liberal Party)

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. The seat of its municipal council was at . Neighboring municipalities were

Rønnede Rønnede is a town in Faxe Municipality, in Region Zealand, Denmark. Prior to the ''Kommunalreformen'' ("The Municipality Reform" of 2007), it was the municipal seat of Rønnede Municipality. Notable people * Philip Smidth (1855 in Rønnede � ...

to the east,

Holmegaard Until 1 January 2007, Holmegaard was a municipality ( Danish, '' kommune'') in Storstrøm County in the southern part of the island of Zealand (''Sjælland'') in south Denmark. The municipality covered an area of 66 km2, and had a total ...

to the north,

Næstved Næstved () is a town in the municipality of the same name, located in the southern part of the island of Zealand in Denmark. Næstved has several adult education centers, five elementary schools - and has at least one of each type of the fou ...

to the west, and

Præstø Præstø () is a town with a population of 3,857 (1 January 2022) in Vordingborg Municipality in Region Sjælland on the east coast of the island of Zealand (''Sjælland''). The islands of '' Maderne'', ''Storeholm'', and ''Lilleholm'' are part ...

and

Vordingborg Vordingborg () is an old ferry town in Vordingborg Municipality in Denmark with around 18,000 inhabitants. Because of three large estates surrounding the town, a coherent urban development has not been possible, which is the reason why three sat ...

to the south. Fakse Bay (''Fakse Bugt'') made up part of the municipality's eastern border, and Karrebæksminde Bay (''Karrebæksminde Bugt'' made up part of the municipality's western border. On 1 January 2007 Fladså municipality ceased to exist due to ''Kommunalreformen'' ("The Municipality Reform" of 2007). It merged with Fuglebjerg,

, and Suså municipalities to form the new Næstved Municipality. This will create a municipality with an area of 681 km² and a total population of 78,446 (2005). The new municipality will belong to the new

Region Sjælland Region Zealand ( da, Region Sjælland) is the southernmost administrative region of Denmark, established on 1 January 2007 as part of the 2007 Danish Municipal Reform, which abolished the traditional counties ("amter") and set up five larger regi ...

("Zealand Region").

References

* Municipal statistics
NetBorger Kommunefakta
delivered fro
KMD aka Kommunedata (Municipal Data)
* Municipal mergers and neighbors
Eniro new municipalities map

External links

Municipality's official website

The new Næstved municipality's official website (Danish only)
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