Viborg Municipality

Viborg Municipality Viborg Kommune (Danish)
Municipality
Coat of arms
Location in Denmark
Coordinates: 56°27′00″N 9°22′00″E / 56.45°N 9.3667°E / 56.45; 9.3667
Country	Denmark
Region	Central Denmark
Established	1 January 2007
Government
• Mayor	Ulrik Wilbek
Area
• Total	1,421.04 km2 (548.67 sq mi)
Population  (1. January 2024)[1]
• Total	97,472
• Density	69/km2 (180/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Website	www.viborg.dk

Viborg Municipality (Danish: Viborg Kommune) is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Region Midtjylland on the Jutland peninsula in northern Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 1,421.04 km², and has a population of 97,472 (1. January 2024). Søren Pape Poulsen was chosen as mayor again for a second term of office 2014–17, but before the first year of his second term had passed, he accepted an offer to become chairman of his party, and a new mayor had to be chosen among the municipal council members. Its mayor from 3 September 2014 is Torsten Nielsen, also a member of the Conservative People's Party. He is mayor in the rest of the 2014-17 term of office.

The main city and the site of its municipal council is the city of Viborg.

On 1 January 2007 Viborg municipality was, as the result of Kommunalreformen ("The Municipal Reform" of 2007), merged with Bjerringbro, Fjends, Karup, Møldrup, and Tjele municipalities to form an enlarged Viborg municipality.

The municipality is part of Business Region Aarhus and of the East Jutland metropolitan area, which had a total population of 1.378 million in 2016.^[2][3]