The municipality itself consisted of two smaller peninsulas that jut out into the surrounding waters, one to the south, and the other to the west.
The municipality was created in 1970 due to a kommunalreform ("Municipality Reform") that combined the following parishes: Agri, Dråby, Ebeltoft, Egens, Fuglslev, Helgenæs, Hyllested, Knebel, Rolsø, Rosmus, Tirstrup, Tved, and Vistoft parishes.
Mols is an area in the southern part of Djursland on Jutland's east coast with Ebeltoft as its main city.
There have been written many fictional accounts of the stupidity of these people, referred to as Molbohistorier ("Stories of the Mols residents").
The town is very picturesque, and has many well-preserved half-timbered houses and cobbled streets.