Mørke is a town located in

East Jutland East or Orient is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from west and is the direction from which the Sun rises on the Earth. Etymology As in other languages, the word is formed from the fac ...

, on the southwestern part of the

Djursland Djursland () is a 44 km × 33 km hilly lowland peninsula in Denmark at the entrance to the Baltic Sea, between Denmark and Sweden in Northern Europe. Djursland protrudes into the Kattegat sea, as part of the larger peninsula of Jutland, ...

peninsula, Denmark. It is a

commuter town A commuter town is a populated area that is primarily residential rather than commercial or industrial. Routine travel from home to work and back is called commuting, which is where the term comes from. A commuter town may be called by many ...

of the city of Aarhus, which lies approximately 26 kilometers to the southwest, and a

railway town A railway town, or railroad town, is a settlement that originated or was greatly developed because of a railway station or junction at its site. North America During the construction of the First transcontinental railroad in the 1860s, temporar ...

at Grenaabanen, the railroad between the cities of Aarhus and

Grenaa Grenaa (or Grenå) is a Danish town and seaport on the east coast of the Jutlandic peninsula. Tourism, education and commerce are important sectors in the economy of Grenaa. It is the only larger town on Djursland. Grenaa is the municipal seat, a ...

. Mørke is located in Syddjurs Municipality, which in turn is part of 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 ...

, and has a population of 1,698 (1 January 2022).BY3: Population 1. January by rural and urban areas, area and population density
The Mobile Statbank from Statistics Denmark Mørke is served by Mørke railway station, located on the Grenaa railway line between Aarhus and

. The 2005 Danish film Murk ( da, Mørke) by Jannik Johansen is named for the town.

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Cities and towns in the Central Denmark Region Syddjurs Municipality {{CentralDK-stub