Hedensted Kommune is a municipality

Municipalities of Denmark

This is a list of Municipalities of Denmark.-Region Hovedstaden:* Albertslund Municipality* Allerød Municipality* Ballerup Municipality* Bornholm Regional Municipality* Brøndby Municipality* Copenhagen Municipality* Dragør Municipality* Egedal Municipality...

 (Danish

Danish language

Danish is a North Germanic language spoken by around six million people, principally in the country of Denmark. It is also spoken by 50,000 Germans of Danish ethnicity in the northern parts of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, where it holds the status of minority language...

, kommune) in Region Midtjylland

Region Midtjylland

Central Denmark Region or Central Jutland Region is an administrative region of Denmark established on January 1, 2007 as part of the 2007 Danish Municipal Reform, which replaced the traditional counties with five larger regions. At the same time, smaller municipalities were merged into larger...

 on the Jutland

Jutland

Jutland , historically also called Cimbria, is the name of the peninsula that juts out in Northern Europe toward the rest of Scandinavia, forming the mainland part of Denmark. It has the North Sea to its west, Kattegat and Skagerrak to its north, the Baltic Sea to its east, and the Danish–German...

 peninsula in central Denmark

Denmark

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. Its seat and main town is Hedensted

Hedensted

Hedensted is a Danish town, seat of Hedensted Municipality, in Region Midtjylland. Its population, including its northern neighbouring town Løsning, is of 11,282. The municipality as a whole has a population of 45,982 .-History:...

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Overview

The municipality covers an area of 565 km² and has a total population of 45,954 (2009). Its mayor is Kirsten Terkilsen, a member of the liberal party

Venstre (Denmark)

VenstreThe party name is officially not translated into any other language, but is in English often referred to as the Liberal Party. Similar rules apply for the name of the party's youth wing Venstres Ungdom. , full name Venstre, Danmarks Liberale Parti , is the largest political party in Denmark...

 Venstre. The main town and the site of its municipal council is the town of Hedensted.

The municipality is also a part of the East Jutland metropolitan area

East Jutland metropolitan area

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 whit 1,2 mio inhabitants.
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On January 1, 2007, as the result of Kommunalreformen ("The Municipal Reform" of 2007), the former Juelsminde municipality

Juelsminde municipality

Until January 1, 2007 Juelsminde municipality was a municipality in Vejle County on the east coast of the Jutland peninsula in central Denmark. The municipality included the island of Hjarnø, and covered an area of 240 km². It had a total population of 15,555 . Its last mayor was Peter Schmidt...

 and most of Tørring-Uldum municipality

Tørring-Uldum municipality

Until January 1, 2007 Tørring-Uldum municipality was a municipality in the former Vejle County on the Jutland peninsula in central Denmark. The municipality covered an area of 189 km², and had a total population of 12,519 . Its last mayor was Kirsten Terkelsen, a member of the Venstre political...

was merged into Hedensted municipality.