Sallingsund municipality is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Viborg County in the northwest of the Salling Peninsula, a part of the larger Jutland peninsula in northwest Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 99 km², and has a total population of 6,083 (2005). Its mayor is Jens Jørn Justesen, a member of the Venstre (Liberal Party) political party. A commune is an administrative subdivision of various European and African countries, including Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Poland, Romania, Senegal, and the Scandinavian countries. ... Viborg and Nyslott County was a county in Finnish Karelia 1634–1743, returned to Finland 1812–1944 under the name of Viborg County Viborgs Amt (English Viborg County) is a county in western Denmark, in the north-central part of the peninsula of Jutland. ... Jutland Peninsula Jutland (Danish: Jylland; German: Jütland) is a peninsula in northern Europe that forms the mainland part of Denmark and a northern part of Germany, dividing the North Sea from the Baltic Sea. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... Venstre (in Danish literally: Left) is the biggest political party in Denmark, ideologically based on free market Liberalism, now a right-of-centre party. ... // Government Denmark is a constitutional monarchy with an almost unbroken link of monarchs for more than 1,000 years (except for an interregnum of eight years from 1332 to 1340). ...

The main town and the site of its municipal council is the town of Roslev. Other towns in the municipality are Durup, Glyngøre, and Sallingsund.

Neighboring municipalities with land connection are Sundsøre to the east and Spøttrup to the southwest. Neighboring island municipality Morsø to the west is separated from the municipality by Salling Strait (Salling Sund), a part of the larger Limfjord which separates the main part of the Jutland peninsula from the island of Vendsyssel-Thy to the north, and which defines most of the municipality's western border, along with the waters of Lysen Bredning and Harre Cove (Harre Vig). a bridge over Limfjord (Aalborg/Nørresundby) The Limfjord is a shallow sound in Denmark that separates the island of Vendsyssel-Thy from the rest of Jutland Peninsula. ... Flag of Vendsyssel. ...

The 1,717 meter long Sallingsund Bridge, which opened May 30, 1978, connects the municipality at the town of Sallingsund to the town of Nykøbing Mors on the island of Mors, and then continues northwest to the island of Vendsyssel-Thy. Before the bridge was built there was a train ferry connection over the strait from the town of Glyngøre to Nykøbing on the ship Pinen og Plagen ("The Torment and the Plague"). Sallingsund Bridge (Sallingsundbroen) is a bridge that crosses Salling Sund between the island Mors and the Salling peninsula on the mainland (Jylland (Jutland)) in Denmark. ... Mors is a 367,7 square kilometer large island in a shallow sound called Limfjorden in Denmark. ... A train ferry is a ship designed to carry railway vehicles. ...

By January 1, 2007 Sallingsund municipality will, as the result of Kommunalreformen ("The Municipality Reform" of 2007), be merged with existing Spøttrup, Sundsøre and Skive municipalities to form the new Sallingsund municipality. This will create a municipality with an area of 682 km² and a total population of 48,368 (2005). The new municipality will belong to the new Region Midtjylland ("Mid-Jutland Region"). 2007 (MMVII) is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Denmark is divided into 13 counties (amter), and 271 municipalities (kommuner). ... Skive municipality is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Viborg County at the base of Salling Peninsula, a part of the larger Jutland peninsula in northwest Denmark. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... Region Midtjylland (English: Region Central Jutland) is a future administrative region created under the Danish Municipal Reform, which replaces the traditional counties (amter) with five larger regions. ...

External links

• Municipality's official website
• The new Skive municipality's official website (Danish only)

References

• Municipal statistics: NetBorger Kommunefakta, delivered from KMD aka Kommunedata (Municipal Data)
• Municipal mergers and neighbors: Eniro new municipalities map