Malmö is part of the transnational Oresund Region and since 2000 the Øresund Bridge crosses the Øresund to Copenhagen, Denmark.

The government's effectiveness was furthermore hampered as it was plagued by in-fighting, most memorably over the construction of the Oresund Bridge.

The construction of the Great Belt Fixed Link – which connects Zealand to Funen and thence to the Jutland Peninsula – and the Oresund Bridge have connected Central and Western Europe to Scandinavia by road and rail.

The Oresund Bridge was designed by the Danish architectural practice Dissing + Weitling.

The Oresund Bridge crosses the border between Denmark and Sweden, but in accordance with the Schengen Agreement and the Nordic Passport Union, there are usually no passport inspections.

This symbolises a common cultural identity for the region, with some regular commuters considering themselves " Öresund citizens " once the Oresund Bridge was completed.

Due to high longitudinal and transverse loads acting over the bridge and to accommodate movements between the superstructure and substructure, Oresund Bridge was equipped with bearings weighing as high as 20, 000kg per bearing, which are capable of bearing vertical loads up to 96, 000KN in longitudinal direction, and up to 40, 000KN in transverse direction.

It is the longest railway bridge in Europe ( highway / rail bridge Oresund Bridge is longer ): on the northern side, the bridge connects to the Rendsburg Loop to gain height and to allow trains to continue to serve the Rendsburg station.

Oresund Bridge from Denmark to Sweden.

Malmö has recently emerged in the eastern part of the Oresund region, tied together with Copenhagen, Denmark, through the Oresund Bridge.

With the opening of the Oresund Bridge and the Great Belt Fixed Link, Norway is connected to the European continent by a continuous highway connection through Sweden and Denmark.

* Oresund Bridge, a combined two-track rail and four-lane road bridge with a main span of 490 metres and a total length of 7. 85 km, crossing the Öresund between Malmö, Sweden and the Danish Capital Region.

Located by the shores of the Øresund strait and connected by the Oresund Bridge, the Capital Region of Denmark and Region Zealand constitute the Danish side, while Skåne County constitutes the Swedish side.

While the Oresund Bridge linking Sweden with Denmark is longer overall, the Öland Bridge is the longest entirely in Swedish territory.

When the centre-right regained power in 1991, Olof Johansson became Minister for the Environment in the Carl Bildt government, but left the post over his opposition to the construction of the Oresund Bridge in the summer of 1994, shortly before the Social Democrats regained power in the September elections.

* Oresund Bridge, Malmo, Sweden and Copenhagen, Denmark

In Denmark E 20 is a motorway from Esbjerg to the Oresund Bridge.

The Great Belt Bridge and Oresund Bridge are tolled, both with more than € 30.

The Oresund Bridge is 8 km and there is a 4 km tunnel on the Danish side of the Sund.

It was used the last time in 1997 for lifting the foundations of the high pillars of the Oresund Bridge.

Connections to Sweden use the Oresund Railway across Oresund Bridge and are SJ's X 2000 service to Stockholm, or frequent Oresundtrain commuter services to Malmö Central Station and beyond.

According to the definition established in a 1932 convention signed by Denmark, Norway and Sweden ( registered in the League of Nations Treaty Series 199-1933 ), the northern boundary between Kattegat and Skagerrak is found at the northernmost point of Skagen on Jutland and the southern boundary towards Oresund is found at the tip of Kullen Peninsula in Scania.

* Oresund, a strait between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea

The Oresund strait between Malmö and Copenhagen with Malmö in the foreground and the island of Amager and part of southern Copenhagen in the background.

In the ballad the poet has Olaf sailing from the Baltic into the Oresund between Denmark and Sweden, where he imagines the island to be located, and the battle takes place in the straits between the island and the mainland.

* Saltholm, small Islet in Oresund west of Copenhagen

) during the Second Northern War, near the Sound or Oresund, just north of the Danish capital, Copenhagen.

The Copenhagen government frowned on this, as they wanted to retain waterway traffic through Oresund, but to preempt these efforts, the Danish government set up the first Danish railway commission in 1835 to establish the layout of a railway line through the Duchy of Holstein.

There are also have been proposals to connect Helsinki and Tallinn as one metropolitan area, like Copenhagen and Malmö ( Oresund Region ), by a railroad beneath the Gulf of Finland.

The X2 trains had a speed of up to on the West Coast Line from Gothenburg Central Station to Malmö Central Station, and then ran along the Oresund Line via Copenhagen Airport, Kastrup Station to Copenhagen Central Station.

Its last use in Malmö was in 1997, when it lifted the foundations of the high pillars of the Oresund Bridge.

The Oresund Region consists of both rural and urban areas.

The oldest known name of the strait is urasuti which appears on a runestone from about 950 and it was locally known as Oresund in the 13th century.

The cost for the entire Oresund Connection construction, including motorway and railway connections on land, was calculated at DKK 30. 1 billion (~ US $ 5. 7bn ) according to the 2000 year price index, with the cost of the bridge paid back by 2035.

Stjerneborg (" Star Castle " in English ) was Tycho Brahe's underground observatory next to his palace-observatory Uraniborg, located on the island of Hven in Oresund.

A third problem is voting privileges ; Danes living on the Swedish side of the Oresund Region lose their right to vote in general elections in Denmark.

The international European route E20 crosses this bridge-tunnel via the road, and the Oresund Line uses the railway.

The railway was very successful, carrying English transit goods until 1857, when the Oresund toll was abolished.

The Danish castles of Helsingborg ( top ) and Helsingør ( bottom ) at the narrowest part of Oresund ( depicted in the 1500s ).

With the Treaty of Stralsund in 1370, a peace was settled that left the Hanseatic League in control of the fortifications at the Scania Market and along the rest of Oresund for 15 years.

In 2006, 4, 300 persons moved from the Danish part of the Oresund Region to Scania, attracted by lower Scanian real estate prices.