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Hjørring Municipality (Danish: Hjørring Kommune) is a municipality (Danish: kommune) in North Jutland Region on the west coast of the island of Vendsyssel-Thy at the top of the Jutland peninsula in northern Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 929.58 km2 (358.91 sq mi), making it the largest in Vendsyssel, and it has a total population of 63,544 (2024).
Hjørring Municipality
Hjørring Kommune (Danish) | |
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 Hjørring - Springvandspladsen | |
 Coat of arms | |
![Hjørring [in red] is north of Aalborg, off Denmark's Jutland peninsula.](/wiki/File:Map_DK_Hj%C3%B8rring.PNG) | |
| Coordinates: 57°28′00″N 9°59′00″E / 57.4667°N 9.9833°E | |
| Country | Denmark |
| Region | North Jutland |
| Seat | Hjørring |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Søren Smalbro |
| Area | |
| • Total | 929.58 km2 (358.91 sq mi) |
| Population (1. January 2024)[1] | |
| • Total | 63,544 |
| • Density | 68/km2 (180/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC2 (CEST) |
| Website | www |
The main town and the site of its municipal council is the town of Hjørring. Other towns in the municipality includes the harbour town of Hirtshals to the north, sea side resorts Løkken and Lønstrup to the west, Tårs and Vrå to the south and Sindal and Bindslev to the East.
| Hjørring | 25,600 |
| Hirtshals | 5,700 |
| Sindal | 3,000 |
| Vrå | 2,500 |
| Tårs | 1,900 |
| Løkken | 1,600 |
| Bindslev | 1,000 |
| Tornby | 1,000 |
On 1 January 2007 Hjørring municipality was, as the result of Kommunalreformen ("The Municipal Reform" of 2007), merged with existing Hirtshals, Løkken-Vrå, and Sindal municipalities to form an enlarged Hjørring municipality.
The town of Hjørring
editThe town of Hjørring is the largest town in Vendsyssel and has a population of 24,789 (2004). It is one of Denmark's oldest towns, and it celebrated its 750-year anniversary as a market town in 1993.
Archaeological discoveries show that the area was already populated 10,000 years ago.
A major fire burned down much of the town in 1819.
The educational opportunities in the town include a gymnasium (the Danish equivalent of a high school/pre college), a business gymnasium (vocational education), and a school for the education of nurses.
Politics
editMunicipal council
editHjørring's municipal council consists of 31 members, elected every four years.
Below are the municipal councils elected since the Municipal Reform of 2007.
| Election | Party | Total seats |
Turnout | Elected mayor | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | B | C | D' | F' | O | T | V | Ø | ... | ||||
| 2005 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 31 | 69.2% | Finn Olesen (A) | |||
| 2009 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 65.6% | Arne Boelt (A) | |||||
| 2013 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 74.0% | |||||
| 2017 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 71.4% | |||||
| 2021 | 10 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 68.1% | Søren Smalbro (V) | |||
| Current | 10 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 1 | N/A | ||||
| Data from Kmdvalg.dk 2005, 2009, 2013 and 2017 | |||||||||||||
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ BY2: Population 1. January by municipalities The Mobile Statbank from Statistics Denmark
External links
edit
- Municipality's official website
- Municipal statistics: NetBorger Kommunefakta, delivered from KMD aka Kommunedata (Municipal Data)
- Municipal mergers and neighbors: Eniro new municipalities map