Billund Municipality
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Billund Kommune is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Region Syddanmark in the center of the Jutland Peninsula of Denmark. Formerly the municipality belonged to Ribe County. The new, merged municipality covers an area of 155 km², and has a total population of 8,697 (2005). Its mayor is Preben Jensen, a member of the Venstre (Liberal Party) political party.[1] The site of its municipal council is the town of Grindsted, which is the largest town in the municipality followed by the city of Billund.
The municipality is also a part of the East Jutland metropolitan area with 1.2 million inhabitants. [2].
On January 1, 2007 due to Kommunalreformen ("The Municipal Reform" of 2007), the old Billund municipality was combined with the former Grindsted Municipality.
[edit] Twinnings
Narva-Jõesuu, Estonia
Hohenwestedt, Germany
[edit] References
- Municipal statistics: NetBorger Kommunefakta, delivered from KMD aka Kommunedata (Municipal Data)
- Municipal mergers and neighbors: Eniro new municipalities map
- Billund and western Denmark
- Nuha Ansari, John D. Rambow, Denmark: The Guide for All Budgets, Rambow, 2002, Fodor's Denmark, 224 pages ISBN 0676902014
- Hogan, C.Michael, Egtved Girl Barrow, The Megalithic Portal, editor A. Burnham 4 October, 2007
[edit] External links
- Billund municipality's official website (Danish)
- Lego braces for big changes, a July 2005 International Herald Tribune article
- Satellite image from Google Maps
Coordinates: 55°43′51″N 9°6′55″E / 55.73083°N 9.11528°E
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