Town center of Randers, Denmark
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Randers is a city in Randers municipality, Region Østjylland on the Jutland peninsula in central Denmark. It is Denmark's sixth-largest city, with a population of 61, 121 (1 January 2012). Randers city is the main town of the municipality and the site of its municipal council.Randers municipality has 94, 750 inhabitants (2010). The municipality is also a part of the East Jylland metropolitan area, which has 1.2 million inhabitants. Randers, Denmark's only natural river harbor, is on the banks of the River Guden (Gudenå), about 6 miles (10 km) above its mouth in Randers Fjord, and 111 miles (179 km) west-northwest of Copenhagen. This location has had great significance for trade by sea. Barges on the Guden River and the Northern River (Nørreå) transported goods into Randers from Silkeborg and Viborg for export. In return, items were imported. A vast agricultural area, and good transportation by land and by water, helped make Randers a dynamic center for trade and commerce. Known for the many access roads leading into the city, it has engendered the popular saying, "Where the waterway meets the 13 highways" ("Hvor søvejen møder de 13 landeveje"). Randers is referred to as Crown Jutland (Kronjylland) and the people as Crown Jutlanders (Kronjyde), probably due to the big Crown estates owned by the King. The term Kronjyde was first used by Danish poets around 1750. Nicolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig (1783–1872) and Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875), and especially Nobel Prize laureate Henrik Pontoppidan (1857–1943), used the term.