Viken
Viken is situated in Höganäs Municipality in Skåne County, Sweden with 4,227 inhabitants in 2010. It has a surface area of 224 hectares. 223 of these are in the Höganäs municipality.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Magnus Bäck, Public domain.
- Type: Village with 4,490 residents
- Description: urban area in Höganäs Municipality, Sweden
- Also known as: “Viken, Sweden”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Vikens kyrka and Väsby strandmark.
Lerberget Church
Church
Photo: Rusven, Public domain.
Lerberget Church is situated 3 km north of Viken.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Höganäs and Ålsgårde.
Höganäs
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Höganäs is a locality and the seat of Höganäs Municipality, Scania County, Sweden. Its population was 14,107 in 2010. Höganäs is nationally known for its ceramics industry, Höganäs Keramik.
Ålsgårde
Quarter
Photo: Ramblersen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ålsgårde is a seaside resort and former fishing village on the north coast of Zealand, Denmark, located six kilometer northwest of Helsingør. Formerly Ålsgårde was a separate town, but today it has merged with the neighbouring town of Hellebæk into an urban area with a population of 5,775. Ålsgårde is situated 9 km south of Viken.
Hellebæk
Village
Photo: Janus Kannuberg, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hellebæk is a town located on the coast five kilometres northwest of Helsingør, North Zealand, some 40 kilometres north of Copenhagen, Denmark. It has merged with the neighbouring community of Ålsgårde to form an urban area with a population of 5,775. Hellebæk is situated 9 km south of Viken.
Viken
- Categories: urban area in Sweden and locality
- Location: Viken socken, Viken, Höganäs Municipality, Scania, Götaland, Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
56.15148° or 56° 9′ 5″ northLongitude
12.57255° or 12° 34′ 21″ eastPopulation
4,490Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)United Nations Location Code
SE VKNOpen location code
9F8J5H2F+H2OpenStreetMap ID
node 279401753OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Viken” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Viken (parokya)”
- Chinese: “Viken”
- Chinese: “維肯”
- Chinese: “维肯”
- Danish: “Viken”
- Dutch: “Viken”
- French: “Viken”
- German: “Viken”
- Irish: “Viken”
- Italian: “Viken”
- Ladin: “Viken”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Viken”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Viken”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Viken i Skåne”
- Norwegian: “Viken”
- Polish: “Viken”
- Russian: “Викен”
- Swedish: “Viken, Höganäs kommun”
- Swedish: “Viken”
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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 “Viken”. Photo: Magnus Bäck, Public domain.