Editing Hillerød Municipality (section)

==Overview==
The main town and the site of its municipal council is the town also named as Hillerød. The [[Hillerød|city of Hillerød]] also houses the administrative capital of Region Hovedstaden.

Neighboring municipalities are [[Fredensborg municipality]] to the east, [[Gribskov municipality]] to the north, [[Frederiksværk-Hundested municipality]] to the west, and [[Frederikssund]] and [[Allerød municipality|Allerød]] to the south.

On 1 January 2007, Hillerød municipality was merged with [[Skævinge]] municipality and ''Uvelse valgdistrikt'' of former [[Slangerup]] municipality as the result of [[Municipalities of Denmark#Municipal Reform 2007|''Kommunalreformen'' ("The Municipality Reform" of 2007)]], forming the new Hillerød municipality.  At the same time, it became part of the capital of Region Hovedstaden, a new region that includes the Danish capital of [[Copenhagen]], about 25&nbsp;km to the southeast.

[[Arresø]], the largest lake in [[Denmark]], lies partly in the municipality.