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Aarhus Municipality

Aarhus Municipality, known as Århus Municipality until 2011, is a kommune in the , on the east coast of the peninsula in central .
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  • Type: municipality of Denmark with 350,000 residents
  • Description: municipality in the Central Denmark Region
  • Also known as: “751” and “Århus Municipality”

Places of Interest

Highlights include ARoS Art Museum and The Old Town.

Museum
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ARoS is an art museum in , . The museum was established in 1859 and is the oldest public art museum in Denmark outside Copenhagen. On 7 April 2004, ARoS opened with exhibitions in a brand new modern building, 10 stories tall with a total floor area of 20,700 m² and designed by Danish architects Schmidt Hammer Lassen.

Museum
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Den Gamle By is an open-air town museum located in the , in central , . In 1914, the museum opened as the Denmark's first open-air museum of its kind, concentrating on town culture rather than village culture, and to this day it remains one of just a few top rated Danish museums outside , serving more than 400,000 visitors pr. year.

Town hall
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Aarhus City Hall is the city hall of , Denmark. The decision to build a new city hall was taken during a city hall meeting in 1937. The new building was inaugurated 2 June 1941, designed by architects Arne Jacobsen and Erik Møller.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Aarhus and Viby J.

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is the main city on the peninsula in . "City of Cafés" is a moniker the city wears with pride: its roster of coffeeshops exemplifies Aarhus' elegant mix of cosmopolitan city life and quaint small-town charm.

Suburb
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is a former town and now a district, in the southwestern part of in Denmark. The district has almost 30,000 inhabitants. The "J" stands for , as there is another town called Viby on the island of Zealand, officially referred to as and also a village on . is situated 4 km south of Aarhus Municipality.

Town
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is a suburban area of , , situated 8 km to the northwest of Aarhus. The area is marked by big city blocks and large traditional suburban areas. is situated 5 km northwest of Aarhus Municipality.

Aarhus Municipality

Latitude
56.1632° or 56° 9′ 47″ north
Longitude
10.169° or 10° 10′ 8″ east
Population
350,000
Elevation
48 metres (157 feet)
Open location code
9F8G5579+7H
Geo­Names ID
2624647
Wiki­data ID
Q240262
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Western Frisian—“Aarhus Municipality” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Օրհուս”
  • Asturian: “Aarhus (conceyu)”
  • Asturian: “Aarhus”
  • Azerbaijani: “Orhus kommunası”
  • Belarusian: “Оргус”
  • Belarusian: “Орхус”
  • Catalan: “municipi d’Århus”
  • Catalan: “Municipi d’Århus”
  • Cebuano: “Århus Kommune”
  • Chinese: “Aarhus Chū-tī-chhī”
  • Chinese: “奧胡斯市鎮”
  • Croatian: “Aarhus”
  • Czech: “Aarhus Kommune”
  • Czech: “Aarhus”
  • Danish: “Aarhus Kommune”
  • Danish: “Århus Kommune”
  • Dutch: “Aarhus”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اروس مونيسيپاليتى”
  • Faroese: “Aarhus kommuna”
  • Finnish: “Aarhusin kunta”
  • French: “Aarhus”
  • Georgian: “ორჰუსის მუნიციპალიტეტი”
  • German: “Aarhus Kommune”
  • Greek: “Δήμος Ώρχους”
  • Hungarian: “Aarhus község”
  • Indonesian: “Munisipalitas Aarhus”
  • Italian: “Aarhus”
  • Italian: “Århus”
  • Italian: “comune di Aarhus”
  • Italian: “Comune di Aarhus”
  • Italian: “comune di Århus”
  • Japanese: “オーフス市”
  • Japanese: “オーフス自治体”
  • Korean: “오르후스시”
  • Low German: “Kommun Aarhus”
  • Mazanderani: “آرهوس شهرستان”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Aarhus Chū-tī-chhī”
  • Northern Frisian: “Aarhus Komuun”
  • Northern Sami: “Aarhus”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Aarhus kommune”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Aarhus Kommune”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aarhus kommune”
  • Norwegian: “Aarhus kommune”
  • Polish: “Gmina Aarhus”
  • Russian: “Орхус”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Århus Kommune”
  • Slovenian: “Aarhus Kommune”
  • Slovenian: “Občina Aarhus”
  • Spanish: “Aarhus”
  • Swedish: “Århus kommun”
  • Ukrainian: “Муніципалітет Орхус”
  • Ukrainian: “Орхус”
  • Venetian: “Comun de Aarhus”
  • Welsh: “Bwrdeistref Aarhus”
  • Western Frisian: “Aarhus”

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