Hjørring Municipality
Hjørring Municipality is a municipality in the Danish North Jutland. It was created on 1 January 2007 as part of local government reform by combining the "old" Hjørring commune with the former municipalities Hirtshals, Løkken - Vrå and Sindal. The municipal office is located in the city Hjørring.
The municipality in figures
The Municipality of Hjørring covers an area of 925.70 km ² and has 65 767 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013).
Development of the population of the Municipality of Hjørring (January 1 ):
- 2007-67118 (Municipality)
- 2008-67121 (Municipality)
- 2010-66803 (Municipality)
The towns of the municipality
The municipal area, the following villages are more than 200 inhabitants ( byer as defined by the Danish Bureau of Statistics ), with a registered population of zero, the place in the past had more than 200 inhabitants:
- Official website of the Municipality of Hjørring (Danish)
Archaeological places
- Varbrogaard
- Dysse Tornby
- Stone box with dishes on the graveyard of Horne Kirke.
- Prehistoric lands in Gedebjerg - Huse on the Tolstrup Hede