Aalborg Municipality

Aalborg Municipality is a municipality (Dens, kommune) in the North Denmark Region on the Jutland peninsulae in northren Denmark.^[1] The municipality straddles the Limfjord, the waterwa which connects the North Sea an the Kattegat east-tae-wast, an which separates the main body o the Jutland peninsula frae the island o Vendsyssel-Thy north-tae-sooth. It haes a land aurie o 1,143.99 km², population 197,426 (2010)^[2] and belongs to Region Nordjylland ("North Jutland Region").

It is an aa the name o the municipality's main ceety Aalborg an the site o its municipal cooncil, as well as the name o a seaport.

The municipality an the ceety hae chosen tae retain the traditional spellin o the name as Aalborg, although the new spellin Ålborg is uised in ither contexts, such as Ålborg Bight (Ålborg Bugt), the body o water which lies tae the east o the Jutland peninsula.

1. ↑ Bridgwater, W. & Beatrice Aldrich. (1966) The Columbia-Viking Desk Encyclopedia. Columbia University. p. 11.
2. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named FOLK1: Population 1 January