Ranum is a town in the community of Løgstør and the Vesthimmerland municipality

Vesthimmerland municipality

Vesthimmerland municipality is a municipality in North Denmark Region in Denmark. It covers an area of 815 km² and a total population of 38,277 ....

 in Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

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Ranum is situated approx. 10 km south of Løgstør

Løgstør

Løgstør is a town with a population of 4,357 and a former municipality in Region Nordjylland on the Jutland Peninsula in northern Denmark. The municipality, including the island of Livø, covered an area of , and had a total population of 10,270...

with a population of 1,108 (1 January 2011), this area is part of "Rural" Denmark with very low population.

Ranum was established around the year 1100 and has been an attractive village throughout the last millennium. Today however - like many other Danish rural cities - Ranum suffers severely from de-population and negative growth. One of the reasons for this negative growth has been the removal of the teachers seminarium, which used to bring a lot of people to the city, and a political tendency towards a general centralization of institutions.

External links

The following (Danish) sites are communities trying to maximize the conditions for the population in Ranum:

• The local central heating - own by the people in Ranum
• The local volunteer Residents and Business Interest community
• The local volunteer Wireless Network