Vendsyssel-Thy

Vendsyssel-Thy or Nørrejyske Ø is part of the north of the Péninsule of the Denmark. Technically, it is the larger second island of Denmark (except the Greenland), but it considered as a continental part of the peninsula of the Jutland, from which it was physically separated by a Inondation in 1825. The island is separated from Jutland by the Limfjord and coincides rigorously with the coast of the north of Jutland.

Vendsysselest is divided into three parts:

Vendsyssel, most of the east and of north (in the north of the county of Jutland),
Hanherrederne in the central part (divided between the north of Jutland and the counties of the Viborg),
Thy in the west (in the county of Vibrog, except for most of the south, called Thyholm, which is in the county of Ringkjøbing).

Vendsyssel-Thy was connected to only one place in Jutland by a Isthme 13 km length and less than 1 km of width, the Tange Agger, which separated the the North Sea of Limfjord. It becomes an island the February 3rd 1825 when the sea crossed the northern end of the isthmus, crant the Canal Agger. The Thyborøn Channel, localized more in the south of the original channel, was creates in the center of the isthmus by another flood in 1862. The Agger Channel started to fill of sand and was filled in 1877 making the island still a little larger.

Surface: 4,685 km ². Population: 306,373 (at January 1st, 2003). Principal cities: Hjørring, Frederikshavn, Løkken, Skagen, Brønderslev, Hirtshals.

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