Until January 1, 2007 Thyborøn-Harboøre was 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 the former Ringkjøbing County

Ringkjøbing County

Ringkjøbing Amt is a former county on the Jutland peninsula in western Denmark. It had the lowest population density of all the Danish counties. The county was abolished effective January 1, 2007, when it merged into Region Midtjylland Ringkjøbing Amt (English, Ringkjøbing County) is a former...

 on the west coast of the Jutland

Jutland

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 peninsula in west Denmark

Denmark

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. The municipality covered an area of 42 km², and had a total population of 4,690 (2005). Its last mayor was Erik Flyvholm.

The main town and the site of its municipal council was the town of Thyborøn

Thyborøn

Thyborøn is a fishing village in Jutland, Denmark with a population of 2,241 , primarily famous for being the site of numerous shipwrecks, such as that of the Imperial Russian naval vessel Alexander Neuski....

.

To the east are the waters of Nissum Bredning, a large body of water connected to the North Sea

North Sea

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, which lies directly to the west of the former municipality. The waters of the North Sea enter the Nissum Bredning through the Thyborøn Channel (Thyborøn Kanal), which lie directly to the north of the former municipality, and which separate it from Sydthy municipality to the north. The Nissum Bredning is the westernmost part of the Limfjord

Limfjord

The Limfjord is a shallow sound in Denmark that separates the island of Vendsyssel-Thy from the rest of the Jutland Peninsula. It extends from Thyborøn Channel on the North Sea to Hals on the Kattegat. It is approximately 180 kilometres long and of an irregular shape with several bays, narrowings,...

 (Limfjorden), a shallow sound that separates the island of Vendsyssel-Thy

Vendsyssel-Thy

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 to the north of the former municipality from the rest of the Jutland Peninsula.

Thyborøn-Harboøre municipality ceased to exist as the result of Kommunalreformen ("The Municipality Reform" of 2007). It was merged into Lemvig Municipality. This created a municipality with an area of 510 km² and a total population of 22,760 (2005). The new municipality belongs to Central Denmark Region (Region Midtjylland).