Amager
Amager is a district and island east and southeast of central Copenhagen, covering some 96 km2, and mostly notable as the home of Copenhagen Airport and the charming old fishing hamlet of Dragør.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Copenhagen Airport and Amager Bryghus.
Copenhagen Airport
Photo: Kallerna, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Copenhagen Airport, also known as Kastrup, is the busiest airport of the Nordic countries. It is on the island of Amager. Beside Copenhagen, the airport also serves Malmö, Sweden, which is linked via the Øresund Bridge.
Amager Bryghus
Brewery
Photo: Maltesen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Amager Bryghus is a Danish microbrewery situated on the island of Amager. It was founded in 2007 by Morten Valentin Lundsbak and Jacob Storm in an old warehouse previously owned by the Church of Scientology.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tømmerup and Tårnby.
Tårnby
Town
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Tårnby is a town in Denmark, the seat of Tårnby Municipality in the Capital Region of Denmark. It is located approximately 6.5 kilometres south of central Copenhagen on the island of Amager.
Amager
- Type: Island
- Also known as: “阿迈厄岛”
- Category: landform
- Location: Capital Region, Denmark, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.61667° or 55° 37′ northLongitude
12.61667° or 12° 37′ eastElevation
4 metres (13 feet)Open location code
9F7JJJ88+MMGeoNames ID
2624740
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Satellite Map
Discover Amager from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Basque to Vietnamese—“Amager” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Amager”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Амагер”
- Bulgarian: “Амагер”
- Catalan: “Amager”
- Cebuano: “Amager”
- Chinese: “阿邁厄島”
- Czech: “Amager”
- Danish: “Amager”
- Dutch: “Amager”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اماجير”
- Estonian: “Amager”
- Faroese: “Amager”
- Finnish: “Amager”
- French: “Amager”
- Galician: “Amager”
- Georgian: “ამაგერი”
- German: “Amager”
- Greek: “Άμαγκερ”
- Hebrew: “קופנהגן/אמאגר”
- Hungarian: “Amager”
- Icelandic: “Amager”
- Indonesian: “Amager”
- Italian: “Amager”
- Japanese: “アマー島”
- Korean: “아마게르섬”
- Latin: “Amagria”
- Latvian: “Amagera”
- Lithuanian: “Amageris”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Amager”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Amager”
- Norwegian: “Amager”
- Polish: “Amager”
- Portuguese: “Amager”
- Russian: “Амагер”
- Serbian: “Амагер”
- Slovenian: “Amager”
- Spanish: “Amager”
- Swedish: “Amager”
- Thai: “อาแมเยอร์”
- Ukrainian: “Амагер”
- Vietnamese: “Amager”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Maglebylille and Store Magleby.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Kastrupgårdsamlingen and Store Magleby Church.
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Amager”. Photo: Villy Fink Isaksen, CC BY-SA 4.0.