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  • proper noun a city in Denmark, pop. 91.405 (as of 2007)
  • proper noun a city in Karelia (now part of Russia, in earlier times part of Finland), pop. 79,224 (as of 2002), usually spelled Vyborg
  • proper noun a town in Turner County, South Dakota, pop. 832 (as of 2000)

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Examples

  • Martti Ahtisaari was born in Viborg, but during the Winter War he moved with his mother to Kuopio and later to Uleåborg.

    The Nobel Peace Prize 2008 - Presentation Speech 2008

  • His experience in Viborg, then Finland's second largest city, which was incorporated into the Soviet Union after the war, and from which almost the entire Finnish population moved, "explains my desire to advance peace and thus help others who have gone through similar experiences as I did".

    The Nobel Peace Prize 2008 - Presentation Speech 2008

  • There are good hotels in Viborg – Preisler’s and the Phoenix are all that can be desired.

    Number 13 by M. R. James | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2004

  • He's well out of the way.8.34pm: An official statement from Liverpool: Liverpool can confirm that goalkeeper Martin Hansen has tonight left the club after being transferred to Danish side Viborg FF.

    Transfer window deadline day 2012 – as it happened 2012

  • As collapses go, however, the one that occurred in Viborg on Sunday night was surely the most dramatic since the afternoon at Euro 2004 when the senior team went into injury time in their opening group match leading France 1-0 through a goal scored in the 38th minute by Frank Lampard, only to concede two goals, both to Zinedine Zidane, in the 91st and 93rd minutes.

    Stuart Pearce as heir apparent? He was hardly coach apparent | Richard Williams 2011

  • As Spain prepares to play Belarus in the semifinals of Europe's elite junior tournament in Viborg on Wednesday, the country's Under-21 team is doing a more than passable impression of the triumphant senior side.

    Young Matadors on the March Jonathan Clegg 2011

  • As collapses go, however, the one that occurred in Viborg on Sunday night was surely the most dramatic since the afternoon at Euro 2004 when the senior team went into injury time in their opening group match leading France 1-0 through a goal scored in the 38th minute by Frank Lampard, only to concede two goals, both to Zinedine Zidane, in the 91st and 93rd minutes.

    Stuart Pearce as heir apparent? He was hardly coach apparent | Richard Williams 2011

  • It is shot in the forests surrounding Viborg, Denmark.

    Out Of A Forest on Vimeo 2010

  • Käkisalmi, also known as Kexholm, turned out to be at the mouth of the Vuoksen River, where it flowed into Lake Ladoga on the Karelian Isthmus, not far from the old Swedish city of Viborg.

    Red Wolf Liza Marklund 2010

  • Benny Feilhaber 90 goal in Aarhus '1-0 win over Viborg

    American soccer players abroad: Stuart Holden, Michael Bradley, Benny Feilhaber score Steve Goff 2010

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