Copenhagen (IPA: or ; Danish: København (help·info) IPA: ) is the capital of Denmark and the country's largest city.
Copenhagen is the seat of the national parliament, the government, and the monarchy. Copenhagen is one of the largest cities of the Nordic countries. With the building of the Oresund bridge it is now the center of the Danish-Swedish metropolitan area Øresundsregionen.
The original designation for the city, from which the contemporary Danish name is derived, was Kjøbmandehavn, "merchants' harbor". The English name for the city is derived from its Low German name, Kopenhagen. The element hafnium is named after the city's Latin name, Hafnia.