Until January 1, 2007 Ikast municipality was a municipality (
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Ringkøbing
Ringkøbing (older spelling ''Ringkjøbing'') is a town in Ringkøbing-Skjern Municipality in Region Midtjylland on the west coast of the Jutland peninsula in west Denmark. It has a population of 9,894 (1 January 2022).
on the
Jutland
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peninsula in west
Denmark
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. The municipality covered an area of 294.3 km2, and had a total population of 23,283 (2005). Its last mayor was Carsten Kissmeyer, a member of the Venstre (Liberal Party)
political party
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. The main town and the site of its municipal council was the town of
Ikast
Ikast is a Denmark, Danish town in the Mid Jutland Region (''Midtjylland''). It is the seat of Ikast-Brande Municipality since 2007. It was the seat of the former Ikast Municipality.
Geography
The town is situated in the middle of Jutland. The ...
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The municipality was created in 1970 as the result of a ("Municipality Reform") that merged a number of existing
parish
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Brande
Brande is a railway town with a population of 7,449 (1 January 2022)Nørre-Snede municipalities to form the new
Ikast-Brande municipality
Ikast-Brande is a municipality (Danish, '' kommune'') in Region Midtjylland in Denmark. It covers an area of 733.69 km2 and has a population of 41,885 (1 January 2022).
On 1 January 2007 Ikast-Brande municipality was created as the result of ...
. This created a municipality with an area of 768 km2 and a total population of 39,371 (2005). The new municipality belongs to
Region Midtjylland
The Central Denmark Region ( da, Region Midtjylland), or more directly translated as the Central Jutland Region and sometimes simply Mid Jutland, is an administrative region of Denmark established on 1 January 2007 as part of the 2007 Danish muni ...