Silkeborg Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Denmark
- Region
- Central Denmark
- Established
- 1 January 2007
- Mayor
- Helle Gade
- Total
- 857 km (331 sq mi)
- Density
- 120/km (311/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
- Website
- www .silkeborg .dk
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Encyclopedic overview
Silkeborg Municipality (Danish: Silkeborg Kommune) is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Region Midtjylland on the Jutland peninsula in central Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 857.16 km, and has a population of 102,753 (1 January 2026). Its mayor is Helle Gade, of the party Social Democrats (Denmark). The main town and the site of its municipal council is the town of Silkeborg.
On 1 January 2007, Silkeborg municipality was, as the result of Kommunalreformen ("The Municipal Reform" of 2007), merged with Gjern, Kjellerup, and Them municipalities to form the new Silkeborg municipality.
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