Odense Municipality
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municipality in Denmark
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Odense Municipality is a government entity located in Denmark. Its legal name is ODENSE KOMMUNE, and it operates within the jurisdiction of DK. The municipality is situated in the city of Odense. It was established on April 1, 1970.
The entity maintains an active status. It has a recorded population of 197480. The municipality is associated with the city of Odense C.
Synthesized by Vinony from 16 facts across 3 sources: Wikidata, GLEIF, ROR. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Key facts
- Country
- Denmark
- Region
- Southern Denmark
- Municipalized
- 1 April 1970
- Mayor
- Peter Rahbæk Juel [ dk ]
- Total
- 304.34 km (117.51 sq mi)
- Density
- 700.43/km (1,814.1/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC2 ( CEST )
- Website
- www .odense .dk
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Government
- Founded
- 1970
- Location
- Odense, Denmark
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.466973.9 · ISNI 0000 0004 0446 5147
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Denmark
- Named after
- Odense
- Country
- Denmark
- Located in
- Funen County
- Capital
- Odense
- Population
- 197480
- Area
- 304
- Elevation
- 123
- Shares border with
- Nordfyn Municipality
- Legal form
- municipality of Denmark
- Official website
- www.odense.dk
- Image
- Denmark-Odense City Hall.jpg
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- category of associated people
- Category:People from Odense Municipality
- different from
- Odense
- twinned administrative body
- Petah Tikva
- Commons category
- Odense Kommune
- topic's main category
- Category:Odense Municipality
- postal code
- 5000
- inception
- 1970-04-01
- owner of
- Odense Stadium
- street address
- Flakhaven 2, 5000 Odense C
- citizens' initiative URL
- dialogportalen.odense.dk/da-DK/pages/initiatives
- P12749
- Linum usitatissimum
- native label
- Odense
- P8168
- Katerina Jacob
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Encyclopedic overview
Odense Municipality (Danish: Odense Kommune) is a Danish municipality (kommune) in Southern Denmark on the island of Funen in central Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 304.34 km (118 sq mi), and has a population of 213,168 (1 January 2026). It is the most populous municipality in the region of Southern Denmark.
The main town and the site of its municipal council is the city of Odense. Including the social sector, 17,000 people are employed by the municipality. The municipal budget is 6,881 million DKK as of 2006. The municipality runs 37 schools; Odense is also the home of 13 private schools.
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