Skanderborg Municipality (Danish: Skanderborg Kommune) is a municipality (Danish, kommune)
in Region Midtjylland on the Jutland peninsula in central Denmark, just southwest of Aarhus. It covers an area of 462.45 km2, with a population of 65,138 (1. January 2023).
Its mayor as of 1 April 2019 is Frands Fischer, representing the Social Democrats political party.
Skanderborg is the municipality's main town, and serves as the seat of the municipal council.
On 1 January 2007 Skanderborg municipality was, as the result of Kommunalreformen ("The Municipal Reform" of 2007), merged with Galten, Ry, and Hørning municipalities, along with Voerladegård Parish from Brædstrup municipality, to form the present, expanded "Skanderborg Municipality". The former municipality covered an area of 143.22 km2, and had a population of 21,745 (2003). Its last mayor was Aleksander Aagaard, a member of the agrarian liberal Venstre political party.
The municipality is part of Business Region Aarhus and of the East Jutland metropolitan area, which had a total population of 1.378 million in 2016.[2][3]
^BY2: Population 1. January by municipality The Mobile Statbank from Statistics Denmark
^"What is Business Region Aarhus". businessregionaarhus.dk. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
^"Tal og statistik" [Figures and Statistics] (in Danish). Byregion Østjylland. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
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