Esbjerg Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Denmark
- Region
- Southern Denmark
- Seat
- Esbjerg
- Mayor
- Jesper Frost Rasmussen
- Total
- 742.5 km (286.7 sq mi)
- Density
- 154.8/km (401.0/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC2 ( CEST )
- Website
- www .esbjerg .dk
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Denmark
- Named after
- Esbjerg
- Country
- Denmark
- Located in
- Southern Denmark
- Capital
- Esbjerg
- Population
- 115748
- Area
- 742.5
- Elevation
- 12
- Shares border with
- Varde Municipality
- Headquarters
- Esbjerg
- Legal form
- municipality of Denmark
- Official website
- www.esbjerg.dk
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- topic's main category
- Category:Esbjerg Municipality
- Commons category
- Esbjerg Kommune
- inception
- 2007-01-01
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Esbjerg Municipality
- twinned administrative body
- Tainan
- owner of
- Blue Water Arena
- replaces
- Helle Municipality
- citizens' initiative URL
- borgerforslag.valgservice.dk/esbjerg-kommune
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Encyclopedic overview
Esbjerg Municipality (Danish: Esbjerg Kommune, Danish pronunciation: [ˈesˌpjɛɐ̯ˀ]) is a kommune in the Region of Southern Denmark on the west coast of the Jutland peninsula in southwest Denmark. Its mayor is Jesper Frost Rasmussen, from the Venstre (Center-Right Party) political party. By 1 January 2007, the old Esbjerg municipality was, as the result of Kommunalreformen ("The Municipal Reform" of 2007), merged with the former Bramming and Ribe and a small part of Helle municipalities to form the new Esbjerg municipality. This municipality has an area of 741 km (286 sq. miles) and a total population of 114,947 (2026).
Overview
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Esbjerg Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.