Copenhagen
Copenhagen is the capital city of Denmark and forms the moderate conurbation that one million Danes call home. It is big enough to form a small Danish metropolis, with shopping, culture and nightlife par excellence, yet small enough still to feel intimate and be safe.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Indre By and Northern suburbs.
Indre By
Indre By is the central area and the historical heart of Copenhagen, bounded by the lakes circling the inner city and the harbour, it reflects the entire city’s extent during the reign of King Christian IV, when the town was fortified.Northern suburbs
Photo: Guillaume Baviere, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Northern suburbs is a green suburban district north of Copenhagen. The ghetto of the wealthy, the Whiskey belt; the nicknames are many, and the Northern suburbs is indeed home to most of the city's well-off population, but to casual visitors the difference may be subtle, due to the high income equality of Denmark and heavy taxation of the highest earners.
Amager
Photo: Villy Fink Isaksen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Christiania and Vesterbro.
Christiania
Vesterbro
Photo: Dannebrog Spy, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Vesterbro is just outside Copenhagen’s city centre )the Inner City or Indre By), making it a very attractive place to live. It includes the districts of Sydhavnen.
Østerbro
Photo: Elgaard, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Østerbro is a mainly residential district of Copenhagen, just north of the inner city. With its quiet cobblestone and tree lined streets, and its excellent shopping and cafe life, it makes for a good excursion from the downtown area.
Nørrebro
Photo: Elgaard, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Nørrebro is an inner district of Copenhagen and perhaps the most multicultural part of the city. A prime cross-section of contemporary Danish society is on offer here, ranging from boutique shopping to grand middle-class areas through to areas revitalised by immigration.
Frederiksberg
Photo: Elgaard, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Frederiksberg might look as a part of Copenhagen to a traveller. But the municipality of Frederiksberg is an enclave of 103,000 people inside the municipality of Copenhagen.
Ballerup
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Ballerup is a municipality in the northern suburbs of Copenhagen, approximately 15 km from central Copenhagen, Denmark. The municipality has a population of 50,000 in 2023. It is also the name of the municipal seat, Ballerup city.
Vestegnen
Photo: Guillaume Baviere, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Vestegnen is a suburban district west of inner Copenhagen, Denmark, mostly build up during the 1970-80s. There is little of general interest to travellers here, but some of Copenhagen's nicest hostels and a single top-notch art museum - oh, and 7 km of white beach if you are fortunate enough to run into sunny days.
Christianshavn
Photo: Elgaard, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Christianshavn is a district east of the inner city of Copenhagen. Once a working-class neighbourhood, today Christianshavn is a trendy part of the city with its own unique identity. people from all walks of life, live side-by-side among cool cafes, old school bodegas, fancy restaurants and charming 19th-century houses along picturesque canals.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Parken Stadium and Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Parken Stadium
Stadium
Photo: Arne mueseler, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.
Parken, currently known as Parken - Connected by 3 for sponsorship reasons, and as Telia Parken, is a football stadium in the Indre Østerbro district of Copenhagen, Denmark, built from 1990 to 1992.
Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Government office
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility is an international organisation that focuses on making scientific data on biodiversity available via the Internet using web services.
castle Rosenborg
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rosenborg Castle is a renaissance castle in Copenhagen, Denmark. The castle was originally built as a country summerhouse in 1606 and is an example of Christian IV's many architectural projects.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Valby and Hellerup.
Valby
Suburb
Valby is one of the 10 official districts of Copenhagen Municipality, Denmark. It is in the southwestern corner of Copenhagen Municipality, and has a mixture of different types of housing.
Hellerup
Suburb
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Hellerup is a very affluent district of Gentofte Municipality in the suburbs of Copenhagen, Denmark. The most urban part of the district is centred on Strandvejen and is bordered by Østerbro to the south and the Øresund to the east.
Vanløse
Suburb
Vanløse is one of the 10 official districts of Copenhagen Municipality, Denmark. It lies on the western border of the municipality. Vanløse covers an area of 6.69 km2, and has a population of 36,115, making Vanløse the smallest district of Copenhagen, by population.
Copenhagen
- Type: City with 613,000 residents
- Description: capital and largest city of Denmark
- Also known as: “Copenhagen, Denmark”, “cph”, “CPH”, “Hafn”, “Hafnia”, “Havn”, “kbh”, “KBH”, “Kbh.”, “Kjöb”, “Kjobenhavn”, “Kjöbenhavn”, “Kobenhavn”, “Köbenhavn”, “København”, “Kööpenhamina”, “Kopenhagen”, and “Köpenhamn”
- Categories: largest city, cycling city, big city, national capital, and locality
- Location: Copenhagen municipality, Capital Region, Zealand, Denmark, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
55.6867° or 55° 41′ 12″ northLongitude
12.5701° or 12° 34′ 12″ eastPopulation
613,000Elevation
14 metres (46 feet)IATA airport code
CPHUnited Nations Location Code
DK CPHOpen location code
9F7JMHPC+M2OpenStreetMap ID
node 13707878OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2618425Wikidata ID
Q1748
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Zulu—“Copenhagen” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Kopenhagen”
- Afrikaans: “Kopenhagen”
- Albanian: “Kopenhagen”
- Albanian: “Kopenhageni”
- Amharic: “ኮፐንሀገን”
- Amharic: “ኮፕንሀግ”
- Arabic: “كوبنهاغن”
- Aragonese: “Copenaguen”
- Armenian: “Կոպենհագեն”
- Asturian: “Copenh.ague”
- Asturian: “Copenhague”
- Asturian: “Copenḥague”
- Asturian: “CPH”
- Asturian: “København”
- Avaric: “Копенгаген”
- Aymara: “Kobenhavn”
- Azerbaijani: “Kopenhagen”
- Balinese: “Kopenhagen”
- Bashkir: “Копенгаген”
- Basque: “Kopenage”
- Basque: “Kopenhage”
- Belarusian: “Капенгаген”
- Belarusian: “Капэнгаген”
- Bengali: “কোপেনহাগেন”
- Bengali: “কোপেনহেগেন”
- Bengali: “কোবেনহাভেন”
- Betawi: “Kopenhagen”
- Bislama: “Copenhagen”
- Bosnian: “Kopenhagen”
- Breton: “Kopenhagen”
- Bulgarian: “Копенхаген”
- Burmese: “ကိုပင်ဟေဂင်မြို့”
- Catalan: “Copenhaguen”
- Cebuano: “Copenhagen”
- Central Bikol: “Copenhagen”
- Central Kurdish: “کۆپنھاگن”
- Chavacano: “Copenhague”
- Chechen: “Копенгаген”
- Chinese: “Copenhagen”
- Chinese: “哥本哈根”
- Church Slavic: “Кобєнхавнъ”
- Chuvash: “Копенгаген”
- Cornish: “Kopenhavn”
- Corsican: “Copenaghen”
- Crimean Tatar: “Kopenhagen”
- Croatian: “Kopenhagen”
- Czech: “Kodaň”
- Danish: “CPH”
- Danish: “Havn”
- Danish: “KBH”
- Danish: “Kjøbenhavn”
- Danish: “Köbenhavn”
- Danish: “København”
- Dimli (individual language): “Kopenhag”
- Dotyali: “कोपनहेगन”
- Dutch: “Kopenhagen”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كوبينهاجين”
- Erzya: “Копенгаген ош”
- Esperanto: “Kopenhago”
- Estonian: “Kopenhaagen”
- Ewe: “Copenhagen”
- Extremaduran: “Copenagui”
- Faroese: “Keypmannahavn”
- Fiji Hindi: “Copenhagen”
- Finnish: “Kööpenhamina”
- French: “Copenhague”
- Gagauz: “Kopenhagen”
- Galician: “Copenhague”
- Georgian: “კოპენჰაგენი”
- German: “Hafnia”
- German: “Kobenhaven”
- German: “Kopenhagen”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Copenhagen”
- Gilaki: “کؤپنهاگ”
- Gothic: “𐌺𐌰𐌿𐍀𐌰𐌼𐌰𐌽𐌽𐌴𐌷𐌰𐌱𐌽𐌰”
- Greek: “Κοπεγχάγη”
- Greek: “Κοπενχάγη”
- Guarani: “Kopenihage”
- Gujarati: “કોપનહેગન”
- Haitian: “Kopènag”
- Hakka Chinese: “Copenhagen”
- Hausa: “Kwapanhagan”
- Hebrew: “קופנהאגן”
- Hebrew: “קופנהגן”
- Hindi: “कोपनहेगन”
- Hungarian: “Koppenhága”
- Icelandic: “Höfn”
- Icelandic: “Kaupinhafn”
- Icelandic: “Kaupinhöfn”
- Icelandic: “Kaupmannahöfn”
- Icelandic: “Köben”
- Ido: “København”
- Iloko: “Copenhagen”
- Inari Sami: “Kööbenhaammân”
- Indonesian: “Kopenhagen”
- Interlingua: “Copenhagen”
- Interlingue: “Köbenhavn”
- Irish: “Cóbanhávan”
- Italian: “Copenaghen”
- Japanese: “クブンハウン”
- Japanese: “ケブンハウン”
- Japanese: “コゥペンヘイゲン”
- Japanese: “コペンハーゲン”
- Japanese: “北欧のパリ”
- Javanese: “Kopenhagen”
- Kabiyè: “Kopɛnhaagɩ”
- Kabyle: “Kopenhagen”
- Kalaallisut: “København”
- Kannada: “ಕೋಪನ್ ಹ್ಯಾಗನ್”
- Kannada: “ಕೋಪನ್ಹಾಗೆನ್”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Kopengagen”
- Kashmiri: “کوپَن ہیگن”
- Kashubian: “Kòpenhaga”
- Kazakh: “Копенгаген”
- Kirghiz: “Копенгаген”
- Komering: “Kopenhagen”
- Komi: “Копенгаген”
- Korean: “코펜하겐”
- Korean: “쾨벤하운”
- Korean: “쾨뻰하븐”
- Kotava: “København”
- Kurdish: “Kopenhag”
- Ladino: “Kopenhage”
- Latgalian: “Kopenhaga”
- Latin: “Hafnia”
- Latin: “Haunia”
- Latin: “Havnia”
- Latvian: “Copenhagen”
- Latvian: “København”
- Latvian: “Kopenhāgena”
- Ligurian: “Copenaghen”
- Limburgan: “Koupenhage”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Kobenhavn”
- Literary Chinese: “哥本哈根”
- Lithuanian: “Kopenhaga”
- Livvi: “Kopengagen”
- Lombard: “Cupenaghen”
- Low German: “Kopenhagen”
- Low German: “Kopenhoaven”
- Lower Sorbian: “Kopenhagen”
- Luxembourgish: “Kopenhagen”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Copenhagen”
- Macedonian: “Копенхаген”
- Malagasy: “Kaopenagy”
- Malay: “Copenhagen”
- Malay: “Kopenhagen”
- Malayalam: “കോപ്പൻഹേഗൻ”
- Maltese: “Copenhagen”
- Maltese: “Kopenħagen”
- Manx: “København”
- Maori: “Copenhagen”
- Maori: “Kōpenehēkene”
- Marathi: “कोपनहेगन”
- Mazanderani: “کپنهاگن”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Copenhagen”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Copenhagen”
- Minangkabau: “Kopenhagen”
- Mingrelian: “კოპენჰაგენი”
- Mirandese: “Copeñaguen”
- Moksha: “Копэнгавн”
- Mongolian: “Копенхаген”
- Moroccan Arabic: “كوپنهاڭن”
- Moroccan Arabic: “كوپنهاݣن”
- Narom: “Copèneĥague”
- Nauru: “Copenhagen”
- Navajo: “Baandaʼiniihii Bitsinaaʼeeł Báhazʼání”
- Neapolitan: “Copenaghen”
- Nepali: “कोपनहेगन”
- Newari: “कोपेनहेगन”
- Northern Frisian: “Kopenhuuwen”
- Northern Luri: “کوپنهاگ”
- Northern Sami: “Københámman”
- Northern Sami: “Københápman”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “København”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kjøpenhamn”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “København”
- Norwegian: “København”
- Novial: “København”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Copenaga”
- Occitan (post 1500): “København”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܟܘܦܢܗܓܢ”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܩܘܦܢܗܐܓܢ”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cēapmannahæfen”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cēapmannhæfen”
- Oriya: “କୋପେନହେଗେନ”
- Ossetian: “Копенгаген”
- Pampanga: “Kopenhage”
- Panjabi: “ਕੋਪਨਹੈਗਨ”
- Papiamento: “Kopenhagen”
- Pennsylvania German: “Kopenhagen”
- Persian: “کپنهاگ”
- Picard: “Kopenhague”
- Piemontese: “Copenàghen”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Copenhagen”
- Polish: “Kopenhaga”
- Portuguese: “Copenhaga”
- Portuguese: “Copenhague”
- Pushto: “کوپنهاګن”
- Quechua: “København”
- Romanian: “Copenhaga”
- Romansh: “Copenhagen”
- Russia Buriat: “Копенһаген”
- Russian: “Копенгаген”
- Rusyn: “Кодань”
- Sakizaya: “Ke-pen-ha-ken”
- Samogitian: “Kuopenhaga”
- Sanskrit: “कोपनहागन”
- Sardinian: “Copenaghen”
- Saterfriesisch: “Kopenhagen”
- Scots: “Colpenhaven”
- Scots: “Copenhagen”
- Scots: “København”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Copenhagen”
- Serbian: “Копенхаген”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kopenhagen”
- Shona: “Copenhagen”
- Sicilian: “Copenaghen”
- Silesian: “Kopynhaga”
- Sindhi: “ڪوپن هيگن”
- Sinhala: “කෝපන්හේගන්”
- Slovak: “Kodaň”
- Slovenian: “Kobenhaven”
- Slovenian: “Köbenhavn”
- Slovenian: “København”
- Slovenian: “Kopenhagen”
- Somali: “Kobanhaygan”
- South Azerbaijani: “کوپنهاقن”
- South Azerbaijani: “کوپینهاگ”
- Southern Sotho: “Copenhagen”
- Spanish: “Copenhague”
- Spanish: “CPH”
- Spanish: “Hafn”
- Spanish: “Hafnia”
- Spanish: “Havn”
- Spanish: “Kobmhaun”
- Swahili: “Kopenhagen”
- Swedish: “Köpenhamn”
- Swiss German: “Kopenhagen”
- Tagalog: “Copenhagen”
- Tagalog: “Copenhague”
- Tajik: “Копенҳаген”
- Talysh: “Kopenhagen”
- Talysh: “Kopenhaqen”
- Tamil: “கோபனாவன்”
- Tamil: “கோபன்ஹேகன்”
- Tatar: “Копенгаген”
- Tatar: “Копенһаген”
- Tatar: “Көбенһавн”
- Telugu: “కోపెన్హాగన్”
- Thai: “โคเปนเฮเกน”
- Tibetan: “ཀའོ་པེན་ཧ་ཀེན”
- Tibetan: “ཁོ་ཕེན་ཧ་ཀེན།”
- Tosk Albanian: “Kopenhagen”
- Turkish: “Kopenhag”
- Turkmen: “Kopengagen”
- Twi: “København”
- Udmurt: “Копенгаген”
- Uighur: “Kopénhagén”
- Uighur: “كوپېنھاگېن”
- Ukrainian: “Копенгаген”
- Upper Sorbian: “Kopenhagen”
- Urdu: “کوپن ہیگن”
- Uzbek: “Kopengagen”
- Venetian: “Copenaghen”
- Veps: “Kopengagen”
- Veps: “Kopenhagen”
- Vietnamese: “Copenhagen”
- Vietnamese: “København”
- Vlaams: “Kopenhagen”
- Vlax Romani: “Copenhagen”
- Volapük: “Köbenhavn”
- Volapük: “København”
- Võro: “Kopõnhaagõn”
- Walloon: “Copenhågue”
- Waray (Philippines): “Copenhagen”
- Welsh: “Copenhagen”
- Western Armenian: “Քոփընհակըն”
- Western Armenian: “Քոփընհեկըն”
- Western Frisian: “Kopenhagen”
- Western Panjabi: “کوپن ہیگن”
- Wolof: “Kopenagen”
- Wu Chinese: “哥本哈根”
- Yakut: “Копенһаген”
- Yiddish: “קאפנהאגן”
- Yoruba: “Copenhagen”
- Yue Chinese: “哥本哈根”
- Zeeuws: “Kopenagen”
- Zulu: “i-Copenhagen”
- “Copenague”
- “Cupenàghen”
- “Kopõnhaagõn”
- “Kuopenhaga”
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