Place:Kolding, Vejle, Denmark

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NameKolding
Alt namesKoldingsource: Getty Vocabulary Program
Koldinghussource: Encyclopædia Britannica (1988) VI, 939
TypeMunicipality
Coordinates55.483°N 9.5°E
Located inVejle, Denmark     (700 - )
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Kolding
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Kolding municipality is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Region Syddanmark on the east coast of the Jutland peninsula in southeast Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 640 km², and has a total population of 87,781 (2008). Its mayor is Knud Erik Langhoff, a member of the Conservative People's Party. The main city and the site of its municipal council is the seaport city of Kolding, the sixth largest city in Denmark.

Several major Danish motorways intersect in Kolding municipality. Middelfart municipality and Kolding municipality are connected by two bridges: the Old Little Belt Bridge and the New Little Belt Bridge.

On 1 January 2007 Kolding municipality was, as the result of Kommunalreformen ("The Municipal Reform" of 2007), merged with Christiansfeld, Lunderskov, Vamdrup municipalities, and in Egtved Municipality to form a new Kolding municipality.

The municipality is part of Triangle Region and of the East Jutland metropolitan area, which had a total population of 1.378 million in 2016.

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