Syddjurs municipality is a municipality (Danish

Danish language

Danish is a North Germanic language spoken by around six million people, principally in the country of Denmark. It is also spoken by 50,000 Germans of Danish ethnicity in the northern parts of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, where it holds the status of minority language...

, kommune) in Region Midtjylland

Region Midtjylland

Central Denmark Region or Central Jutland Region is an administrative region of Denmark established on January 1, 2007 as part of the 2007 Danish Municipal Reform, which replaced the traditional counties with five larger regions. At the same time, smaller municipalities were merged into larger...

 in Denmark

Denmark

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 just north of Aarhus and is a part of the Aarhus

Aarhus

Aarhus or Århus is the second-largest city in Denmark. The principal port of Denmark, Aarhus is on the east side of the peninsula of Jutland in the geographical center of Denmark...

 area. It covers an area of 693 km² and a total population of 41,281 (2008).

The municipality is also a part of the East Jutland metropolitan area

East Jutland metropolitan area

East Jutland metropolitan area is a geographic term for an area in Jutland, Denmark.The term denotes a functional coherent urban area linked by both infrastructure and labour across municipal boundaries...

 with 1,2 mio inhabitants.
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On 1 January 2007 Syddjurs municipality ("South Djursland

Djursland

Djursland is a Danish peninsula located on the east coast of the larger Jutland peninsula. Other minor peninsulas are also found stretching out from Djursland, such as Skødshoved and Helgenæs.Djursland is also Jyllands only round church in Thorsager....

") was created as the result of Kommunalreformen ("The Municipal Reform" of 2007), consisting of the former municipalities of Ebeltoft

Ebeltoft municipality

Until January 1, 2007, Ebeltoft municipality was a municipality in Aarhus County on the east coast of the Jutland peninsula in central Denmark. The region lies in a geographic region known as southern Djursland, and more specifically Mols. The municipality covered an area of 276 km², and had a...

, Midtdjurs

Midtdjurs municipality

Until January 1, 2007 Midtdjurs was a municipality in the former Aarhus County on the Jutland peninsula in central Denmark. The municipality, in the middle of a region known as Djursland, covered an area of 179 km², and had a total population of 7.763...

, Rosenholm

Rosenholm municipality

Until 1 January 2007 Rosenholm municipality was a municipality in the former Aarhus County on the east coast of the Jutland peninsula in central Denmark just north of Aarhus and is more or less a suburb today. The municipality covered an area of 141 km², and had a total population of 10.325...

, and Rønde

Rønde municipality

Until January 1, 2007 Rønde municipality was a municipality in the former Aarhus County on the east coast of the Jutland peninsula in central Denmark. The municipality covered an area of 101 km², and had a total population of 7,111 . Its last mayor was Vilfred Friborg Hansen, a member of the...

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The municipality covers most of southern Djursland, Skødshoved, Helgenæs

Helgenæs

Helgenæs is a minor peninsula stretching out from Mols, itself part of the peninsula Djursland, again part of the peninsula Jutland in Denmark.-Etymology:Helgenæs derives from Danish "hellig" + "næs" , and was in 1231 spelled "Hælghænæs"....

, Mols

Mols

Mols is a small Danish peninsula located to the south of another peninsula, Djursland, located on the east coast Jutland. Two other peninsulas, Skødshoved to the west, and Helgenæs to the south, are adjacent to Mols....

 and the Ebeltoft

Ebeltoft

Ebeltoft is a town with a population of 7,559 on the central east coast of Denmark, located in Syddjurs municipality in Region Midtjylland on the Danish peninsula of Jutland....

 peninsula

Peninsula

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