Viborg Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Denmark
- Region
- Central Denmark
- Established
- 1 January 2007
- Mayor
- Katrine Fusager Rohde (V)
- Total
- 1,421.04 km (548.67 sq mi)
- Density
- 68.875/km (178.39/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
- Website
- www .viborg .dk
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Encyclopedic overview
Viborg Municipality (Danish: Viborg Kommune) is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Region Midtjylland on the Jutland peninsula in northern Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 1,421.04 km and has a population of 97,874 (1 January 2026). Its administrative seat and largest town is Viborg.
Viborg Municipality is the second-largest municipality in Denmark by area and forms part of Business Region Aarhus and the East Jutland metropolitan area, which had a total population of 1.378 million in 2016. It was created on 1 January 2007 as a result of the Kommunalreformen ("The Municipal Reform" of 2007), through the merger of the former municipalities of Bjerringbro, Fjends, Karup, Møldrup, and Tjele and the old Viborg Municipality.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Viborg Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.