Varde Municipality
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Key facts
- Country
- Denmark
- Region
- Southern Denmark
- Established
- 1 January 2007
- Mayor
- Sarah Andersen
- Total
- 1,256 km (485 sq mi)
- Density
- 39.39/km (102.0/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
- Website
- vardekommune .dk
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Denmark
- Named after
- Varde
- Country
- Denmark
- Located in
- Southern Denmark
- Capital
- Varde
- Population
- 50289
- Area
- 1256
- Elevation
- 12
- Shares border with
- Ringkøbing-Skjern Municipality
- Legal form
- municipality of Denmark
- Official website
- vardekommune.dk
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- twinned administrative body
- San Mateo
- Commons category
- Varde Kommune
- topic's main category
- Category:Varde Municipality
- inception
- 2007-01-01
- postal code
- 6800
- replaces
- Ølgod Municipality
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
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Encyclopedic overview
Varde Municipality (Danish: Varde Kommune) is a kommune in the Region of Southern Denmark on the west coast of the Jutland peninsula in southwest Denmark. Its mayor is Mads Sørensen, a member of the Venstre (Liberal Party) political party. The main town and site of its municipal council is the town of Varde. It covers an area of 1255.79 km with a population of 49,468 (2026).
On 1 January 2007 Varde municipality was, as a result of Kommunalreformen ("The Municipal Reform" of 2007), merged with the existing Blaabjerg, Blåvandshuk, most of Helle (Grimstrup parish, a part of the former Helle Municipality, merged with Esbjerg Municipality), and Ølgod municipalities to form a new Varde municipality. Årre is also located in Varde.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Varde Municipality” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.