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City of Smiles) it is the Danish city with the youngest demographics and home to Scandinavia's largest university, Aarhus University. [2] [8] Commercially, the city is the principal container port in the country, and major Danish companies such as Vestas, Arla Foods, Salling Group, and Jysk have their headquarters there.
The gender composition of the city council has risen steadily in favour of women through the 20th century and currently 9 of 31 members are women. [9] The first publicly elected mayor of Aarhus was appointed in 1919. In the 1970 Danish Municipal Reform the current Aarhus municipality was created by merging 20 municipalities. [10]
This article shows a list of cities in Denmark by population. The population is measured by Statistics Denmark [ 1 ] for urban areas (Danish: Byområder), defined as a contiguous built-up area with a maximum distance of 200 meters between houses, unless further distance is caused by public areas, cemeteries or similar.
Aarhus City Hall (Danish: Aarhus Rådhus) is the city hall of Aarhus, 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.
Statistics Denmark defines towns or cities as areas with more than 200 residents in a continuous settlement with no more than 200 meters between residential structures. In 2016 there were 20 such areas in Aarhus Municipality , the largest being the city of Aarhus with some 260.000 inhabitants while some 50.000 people lived in urban areas ...
Vestas is a Danish manufacturer, seller, installer, and servicer of wind turbines and the largest in the world of its kind; and Arla is a Swedish-Danish dairy cooperative with headquarters in Aarhus and is the largest producer of dairy products in Scandinavia and the seventh largest dairy company in the world, measured by turnover. Among ...
A city map of Aarhus in 1900, (Danish language edition) 1901 – 51,814 inhabitants. [28] 1902 The State Library is finished.
ARoS Aarhus Art Museum. The architecture of Aarhus comprises numerous architectural styles and works from the Middle Ages to present-day. Aarhus has a well-preserved medieval city center with the oldest dwellings dating back to the mid-1500s and some ecclesiastical structures such as St. Clemen's Cathedral and numerous smaller churches that can be traced back to the 1100s.