Alken
Alken is a village in Skanderborg Municipality, Denmark, with a population of 309. Alken is located a short distance from the Mossø lake in the Søhøjlandet area of Central Jutland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 234 residents
- Description: village in Skanderborg Municipality, Denmark
- Also known as: “Alken, Denmark”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Alken railway station, Denmark and Alken Enge.
Alken railway station, Denmark
Railway stop
Photo: Alicudi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Alken station is a railway station serving the village of Alken in East Jutland, Denmark. The station is located in the centre of the village a short distance from the Mossø lake in the Søhøjlandet area of Central Jutland.
Alken Enge
Archaeological site
Illerup Ådal is a river valley and archeological site located near Skanderborg in East Jutland, Denmark.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Svejstrup and Skanderborg.
Svejstrup
Hamlet
Svejstrup is a hamlet in Skanderborg Municipality, Central Denmark Region, Denmark. It is between the towns of Skanderborg and Ry. It is one of the highest villages in Denmark, with an elevation of 80–100 meters.
Skanderborg
Photo: Carsten Wiehe, CC BY 3.0.
Skanderborg is a city in East Jutland. It has a population of about 25,000 and is a generic, quiet Danish provincial town. With a quiet life of its own, it is strongly linked to the regional capital, Aarhus, which is only a 20 minute commute away.
Ry
Village
Photo: Carsten Wiehe, CC BY 3.0.
Ry is a town with a population of 7,536 in central Denmark, located in Skanderborg municipality in Jutland. The town sprouted up around a railway station 5 km east of the older town of Rye which is now much smaller than Ry. Ry is situated 6 km northwest of Alken.
Alken
- Category: locality
- Location: Skanderborg Municipality, Central Jutland, Denmark, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
56.05197° or 56° 3′ 7″ northLongitude
9.84558° or 9° 50′ 44″ eastPopulation
234Elevation
31 metres (102 feet)Open location code
9F8F3R2W+Q6OpenStreetMap ID
node 8696244364OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2624850Wikidata ID
Q2542142
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Danish to Uzbek—“Alken” goes by many names.
- Danish: “Alken”
- Dutch: “Alken”
- Finnish: “Alken”
- German: “Alken”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Alken (Daniya)”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Alken”
- Persian: “الکن، دانمارک”
- Polish: “Alken (Dania)”
- Polish: “Alken”
- Turkish: “Alken”
- Uzbek: “Alken, Daniya”
- Uzbek: “Alken”
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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 “Alken”. Photo: Sapfan, Public domain.