Virklund
Virklund is a town in Denmark, located about 5 km south of Silkeborg, to which it functions as a satellite city. It has a population of 3,923. Virklund is located in Silkeborg Municipality and therefore is part of the Central Denmark Region.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Beethoven9, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Virklund Church and Uglesø.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sejs-Svejbæk and Gjessø.
Sejs-Svejbæk
Village
Sejs-Svejbæk is a railway town, with a population of 4,677. It is located in Silkeborg Municipality, Central Jutland Region in Denmark, 7 km southeast of Silkeborg. Sejs-Svejbæk is situated 4 km east of Virklund.
Gjessø
Village
Photo: Carsten Wiehe, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gjessø is a small town near Silkeborg in Denmark with a population of 840. Gjessø is famous for its lake which fills half of the town. It is used every year by tourists and natives. Gjessø is situated 4 km southwest of Virklund.
Silkeborg
Photo: Krists Luhaers, CC BY 2.0.
Silkeborg is a town in Jutland founded in 1844 around a paper mill at the Gudenå River. The history of the place goes back to the 15th century, when a castle was located at an islet in the lake of Silkeborg.
Virklund
- Type: Village with 3,110 residents
- Description: village in Midtjylland, Denmark
- Categories: town and locality
- Location: Silkeborg Municipality, Central Jutland, Denmark, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
56.13012° or 56° 7′ 48″ northLongitude
9.55392° or 9° 33′ 14″ eastPopulation
3,110Elevation
54 metres (177 feet)Open location code
9F8F4HJ3+2HOpenStreetMap ID
node 26559052OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2610159Wikidata ID
Q2441845
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Turkish—“Virklund” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Virklund”
- Bulgarian: “Вирклунд”
- Cebuano: “Virklund”
- Danish: “Virklund”
- Dutch: “Virklund”
- Finnish: “Virklund”
- Persian: “ویرکلوند”
- Polish: “Virklund”
- Spanish: “Virklund”
- Swedish: “Virklund”
- Turkish: “Virklund”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Gunilshøj and Virklund School.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Virklund”. Photo: Beethoven9, CC BY-SA 4.0.