Skive Municipality ( Danish : Skive Kommune ) is a municipality ( Danish , kommune ) in Mid Jutland Region on Salling Peninsula, a part of the larger Jutland Peninsula in northwest Denmark . It covers an area of 688.09 km (2013) and has a population of 44,739 (2024). Its mayor is Peder Christian Kirkegaard, a member of the Venstre political party .
4-503: The main town and the site of its municipal council is the city of Skive . The Virksund Bridge ( Virksundbroen ) connects the municipality at the town of Virksund to the town of Sundstrup in Viborg municipality . As of January 1, 2007, the original Skive municipality ceased to exist as a result of Kommunalreformen ("The Municipal Reform" of 2007) . It was merged with the former Sallingsund , Spøttrup , and Sundsøre municipalities, to form
8-838: The mouth of the Karup River ( Karup Å ) and the Skive Fjord, part of the Limfjord . Skive has a population of 20,166 (1 January 2024). The sociologist Richard Jenkins used his field work in Skive as the basis for his book Being Danish: Paradoxes of Identity in Everyday Life . Skive is served by Skive railway station . It is located on the Langå-Struer railway line and offers direct InterCity services to Copenhagen and Struer and regional train services to Aarhus and Struer . Skive Airport
12-570: The municipal councils elected since the Municipal Reform of 2007 . Skive (Denmark) Skive is a town in Skive municipality ( Danish , Skive Kommune ) in Region Midtjylland at the base of Salling Peninsula, a part of the larger Jutland peninsula in northwest Denmark . It is the municipality's main town and the site of its municipal council. The town of Skive is located at
16-472: The new Skive municipality. The old municipality had an area of 230 km and a population of 27,919 (2005). Before the reform, the municipality was part of Viborg County . Skive itself is a coastal tourist resort, at the mouth of the Karup River ( Karup Å ) and the Skive Fjord. As of 1992, the population was 19,711. In June 2022, Barack Obama visited the municipality. Skive's municipal council consists of 27 members, elected every four years. Below are
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