Skødstrup is a
suburb
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located north-east of
Aarhus
Aarhus (, , ; officially spelled Århus from 1948 until 1 January 2011) is the second-largest city in Denmark and the seat of Aarhus municipality, Aarhus Municipality. It is located on the eastern shore of Jutland in the Kattegat sea and app ...
in
Denmark
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. The suburb is also a
railway town
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North America
During the construction of the First transcontinental railroad in the 1860s, temporary, ...
at
Grenaabanen
The Grenaa Line () is a long standard gauge single track railway line in Denmark which runs between Aarhus and Grenaa through the peninsula of Djursland. The railway opened in 1876–1877. It is owned and maintained by Rail Net Denmark and serv ...
, the railroad between the cities of Aarhus and
Grenaa
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. Today Skødstrup has grown together with the adjoining railway town of
Løgten into a small
urban area
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named ''Løgten-Skødstrup'' with a population of 8,197 (1 January 2019).
BEF44: Population 1 January, by urban areas
database from Statistics Denmark
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Skødstrup elementary school has more than 1250 students making it one of the largest schools in the region.
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Neighbourhoods in Aarhus
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