Viborg Municipality | |
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 Location in Denmark | |
| Coordinates: 56°27′00″N9°22′00″E / 56.45°N 9.3667°E | |
| Country | Denmark |
| Region | Central Denmark |
| Established | 1 January 2007 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Katrine Fusager Rohde (V) |
| Area | |
• Total | 1,421.04 km2 (548.67 sq mi) |
| Population (1 January 2025) [1] | |
• Total | 97,621 |
| • Density | 68.697/km2 (177.92/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 8800 |
| Website | www |
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 km2 and has a population of 97,621 (1 January 2025). Its administrative seat and largest town is Viborg.
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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. [2] [3] 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.
