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
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Denmark
- Named after
- Silkeborg
- Country
- Denmark
- Located in
- Central Denmark
- Capital
- Silkeborg
- Population
- 90719
- Area
- 857
- Elevation
- 31
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Viborg Municipality
- Headquarters
- Silkeborg
- Legal form
- municipality of Denmark
- Official website
- www.silkeborg.dk
- Image
- Hjejlen.jpg
- Dialing code
- 89
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- replaces
- Kjellerup Municipality
- twinned administrative body
- Arendal
- Commons category
- Silkeborg Kommune
- topic's main category
- Category:Silkeborg Municipality
- inception
- 2007-01-01
- postal code
- 8600
- owner of
- Museum Silkeborg
- street address
- Søvej 1, 8600 Silkeborg
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Silkeborg Municipality
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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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Silkeborg Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.