Thisted Municipality

Thisted municipality is a municipality (Dens: kommune) in North Denmark Region, Denmark. The municipality covers an aurie o 1,072 km², an haes a total population o 45,549 (2008). Its mayor is Erik Hove Olesen, a member o the Social Democrats (Socialdemokraterne). The main toun an the steid o its municipal cooncil is the toun o Thisted. On 1 January 2007 Thisted municipality wis, as the result o Kommunalreformen ("The Municipal Reform" o 2007), mergit wi Hanstholm an Sydthy municipalities tae form a new Thisted municipality. Thy Main airticle: Thy (destrict) Thisted municipality is roughly identical wi the traditional destrict o Thy, except that the municipality includes a sma portion o the destrict Hanherred, but no the soothmaist peninsulae o Thy, Thyholm. Famous residents o the municipality Thisted is the birthplace o geographer Conrad Malte-Brun an writer Jens Peter Jacobsen. Freemit airtins Municipality's offeecial wabsteid (In Dens) References Municipal statistics: NetBorger Kommunefakta Archived 2007-08-12 at the Wayback Machine, delivered from KMD aka Kommunedata (Municipal Data) Municipal mergers and neighbors: Eniro new municipalities map Archived 2007-10-11 at the Wayback Machine