Aalborg (161,161 residents) is a town of the
Denmark, the fourth one for population after
Copenhagen, Århus and Odense. It counts an urban population of about 130,000 residents.
The first installations in the zone in which rises today the town go back around the eighteenth century and its position on the
Limfjord allowed to
Aalborg to become, in the course of the medieval age an important port and, more late, an industrial and manufacturing center. At present it a phase of transition is living and it is transforming from town to vocation mainly worker to center to cultural and scientific address, thanks above all to the presence and to the influence of
University of Aalborg, been based on in 1974.
In its territory it is found the
Military airfield of Aalborg, an of the main bases of the aerial Forces Danishes. The town is besides bishop's seat of the
Lutheran church.
Aalborg it is a town in rapid growth, but the subjects of environment and of the extensibility stay the key factors of its progress.
The port of the town is one of the largest and modern of the
Denmark and it is connected in direct manner to the road and railroad net.
