Until 1 January 2007 Sallingsund municipality was a municipality (

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, '' kommune'') in the former

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in the northwest of the Salling Peninsula, a part of the larger

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peninsula in northwest

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. The municipality covered an area of 99 km², and had a total population of 6,083 (2005). Its last mayor was Jens Jørn Justesen, a member of the Venstre (Liberal Party)

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. The main town and the site of its municipal council was the town of Roslev. The 1,717 meter long

Sallingsund Bridge Sallingsund Bridge (Sallingsundbroen) is a bridge that crosses Salling Sund between the island of Mors and the Salling peninsula on the mainland (Jylland (Jutland)) in Denmark. The bridge is 1717 metres long, the longest span is 93 metres, and t ...

, which opened on 30 May 1978, connects the towns of Sallingsund to the town of

Nykøbing Mors Nykøbing Mors is the largest town on the island of Mors in the Limfjord in Denmark. The town received its charter in 1299 and has a population of 9,033 (1 January 2022).

on the island of Mors, and then continues northwest to the island of Vendsyssel-Thy. Before the bridge was built there was a

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connection over the strait from the town of Glyngøre to Nykøbing on the ship ''Pinen og Plagen'' ("The Torment and the Plague"). Sallingsund municipality was, as the result of ''Kommunalreformen'' ("The Municipality Reform" of 2007), merged with Spøttrup, Sundsøre and Skive municipalities to form the new Skive municipality. This created a municipality with an area of 682 km² and a total population of 48,368 (2005). The new municipality belongs to

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("Mid-Jutland Region").

References

* Municipal statistics
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aka Kommunedata (Municipal Data) * Municipal mergers and neighbors
Eniro new municipalities map

External links

Skive municipality's official website (Danish only)
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