Sallingsund municipality

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Sallingsund municipality is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Viborg County in the northwest of the Salling Peninsula, a part of the larger Jutland peninsula in northwest Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 99 km², and has a total population of 6,083 (2005). Its mayor is Jens Jørn Justesen, a member of the Venstre (Liberal Party) political party.

The main town and the site of its municipal council is the town of Roslev. Other towns in the municipality are Durup, Glyngøre, and Sallingsund.

Neighboring municipalities with land connection are Sundsøre to the east and Spøttrup to the southwest. Neighboring island municipality Morsø to the west is separated from the municipality by Salling Strait (Salling Sund), a part of the larger Limfjord which separates the main part of the Jutland peninsula from the island of Vendsyssel-Thy to the north, and which defines most of the municipality's western border, along with the waters of Lysen Bredning and Harre Cove (Harre Vig).

The 1,717 meter long Sallingsund Bridge, which opened May 30, 1978, connects the municipality at the town of Sallingsund to the town of Nykøbing Mors on the island of Mors, and then continues northwest to the island of Vendsyssel-Thy. Before the bridge was built there was a train ferry connection over the strait from the town of Glyngøre to Nykøbing on the ship Pinen og Plagen ("The Torment and the Plague").

By January 1, 2007 Sallingsund municipality will, as the result of Kommunalreformen ("The Municipality Reform" of 2007), be merged with existing Spøttrup, Sundsøre and Skive municipalities to form the new Sallingsund municipality. This will create a municipality with an area of 682 km² and a total population of 48,368 (2005). The new municipality will belong to the new Region Midtjylland ("Mid-Jutland Region").

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