Ballerup Kommune () is a municipality ( da, kommune) in ''

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'' on the island of

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(''Sjælland'') in eastern

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. It is located approximately 15 kilometers from central

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. The municipality covers an area of 34.09 km², and has a population of 48,231 (1. January 2017). It is also the name of the municipal seat, Ballerup.

Overview

As of November 2020, the mayor is Jesper Würtzen of the

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. Other than Ballerup, the towns that make up the municipality are

Måløv Måløv is a suburb within Ballerup Municipality, closely attached to Smørumnedre approx. 20 km. west of Copenhagen, in the Capital region, with a population of 8,787 (2022). The suburb is made up by single-family houses and a housing projec ...

and

Skovlunde From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigationJump to search Skovlunde is a small Danish town in Ballerup Municipality and is a suburb of Copenhagen (12 km west of downtown Copenhagen). Skovlunde has approximately 12.000 inha ...

. Neighboring municipalities are

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to the east, Furesø to the north,

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to the west, and

Albertslund Albertslund is a Copenhagen suburb in Albertslund Municipality, Denmark. It is located west of central Copenhagen, with a population of around 30,000. Albertslund is a planned community or new town mainly built in the 1960s and 1970s. The s ...

and Glostrup to the south. The geography of Ballerup municipality was not affected on January 1, 2007, by the nationwide ''Kommunalreformen'' ("The Municipal Reform" of 2007).

Economy

The municipality is home to companies such as

GN Store Nord GN Store Nord A/S is a Danish manufacturer of hearing aids (GN ReSound/GN Hearing) and headsets ( Jabra (GN Audio)). GN Store Nord A/S is listed on NASDAQ OMX Copenhagen (ISIN code DK0010272632). History The Great Northern Telegraph Company ...

Orbicon WSP Danmark A/S, formerly Orbicon, is a Danish technical advisory services company. WSP Danmark is a knowledge-based company which provides professional and sustainable engineering consulting services in the fields of the construction, environme ...

and

Leo Pharma LEO Pharma A/S is a multinational Danish pharmaceutical company, founded in 1908, with a presence in about 100 countries. Its headquarters are in Ballerup, near Copenhagen The company is 100% integrated into a private foundation owned by the LEO F ...

and

Toms International Toms International is a Danish chocolate, liquorice and sugar confectionery producer, headquartered in Ballerup, Denmark. The company produces around 50,000 tons of chocolate and sugar confectionery annually which it supplies to customers in Den ...

Politics

Municipal council

Ballerup's municipal council consists of 25 members, elected every four years. Below are the municipal councils elected since the Municipal Reform of 2007.

Twin towns – sister cities

Ballerup is twinned with: *

Brandenburg an der Havel Brandenburg an der Havel () is a town in Brandenburg, Germany, which served as the capital of the Margraviate of Brandenburg until it was replaced by Berlin in 1417. With a population of 72,040 (as of 2020), it is located on the banks of the ...

, Germany *

East Kilbride East Kilbride (; gd, Cille Bhrìghde an Ear ) is the largest town in South Lanarkshire in Scotland and the country's sixth-largest locality by population. It was also designated Scotland's first new town on 6 May 1947. The area lies on a rais ...

, Scotland, United Kingdom Ballerup also cooperates with

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in Sweden.

References

* Municipal statistics
NetBorger Kommunefakta
delivered fro
KMD aka Kommunedata (Municipal Data)
* Municipal mergers and neighbors
Eniro new municipalities map

External links

Municipality's official websiteEast Kilbride, Ballerup's twin town
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