Aalborg Municipality
Aalborg Kommune (Danish) | |
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 Coat of arms | |
 Location of Aalborg Municipality | |
| Coordinates: 57°02′47″N 9°55′09″E / 57.0464°N 9.9192°E | |
| Country |  Denmark |
| Region | Region Nordjylland |
| Municipal council | 2007 |
| Seat | Aalborg City Hall |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Lasse Frimand Jensen |
| Area | |
• Total | 1,140 km2 (440 sq mi) |
| Population (1 January 2024)[1] | |
• Total | 223,174 |
| • Density | 200/km2 (510/sq mi) |
| Demonym | aalborgenser |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Website | www |
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Ålborg Municipality (Danish: Ålborg Kommune) is a municipality in North Jutland Region on the Jutland peninsula in northern Denmark.[4] The municipality straddles the Limfjord, the waterway which connects the North Sea and the Kattegat east-to-west, and which separates the main body of the Jutland peninsula from the island of Vendsyssel-Thy north-to-south. It has a land area of 1,143.99 km2 (441.70 sq mi) and a population of 223,174 (1. January 2024).[1]
It is also the name of the municipality's main city Aalborg and the site of its municipal council, as well as the name of a seaport.
The municipality and the town have chosen to retain the traditional spelling of the name as Aalborg, although the new spelling Ålborg is used in other contexts, such as Ålborg Bight (Ålborg Bugt), the body of water which lies to the east of the Jutland peninsula.
- ^ a b BY2: Population 1. January by municipalities The Mobile Statbank from Statistics Denmark
- ^ FOLK1: Population 1 January database from Statistics Denmark
- ^ Aalborg in figures Archived 23 March 2010 at the Wayback Machine statistics from Aalborg Municipality
- ^ Bridgwater, W. & Beatrice Aldrich. (1966) The Columbia-Viking Desk Encyclopedia. Columbia University. p. 11.