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 |
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Photo: Villy Fink Isaksen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Vestamager station and Royal Arena.
Vestamager station
Metro station
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Vestamager station is a rapid transit station of the Copenhagen Metro in Copenhagen, Denmark. The terminus of the M1 line, it is located in zone 3 in the southwestern section of the island of Amager.
Royal Arena
Stadium
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The Royal Arena is a multi-use indoor arena in the Ørestad South area of Copenhagen, Denmark. The ground was broken for construction on 26 June 2013 and the arena opened in February 2017.
Ørestad Plejecenter
Social service facility
Photo: Susanne Nilsson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ørestad Plejecenter is a social service facility.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tårnby and Tømmerup.
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: Locality with 196,000 residents
- Description: island in the Øresund
- Category: island
- Location: Tårnby Municipality, Capital Region, Denmark, Nordic countries, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Vietnamese—“Amager” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Amager”
- Belarusian: “Амагер”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Амагер”
- Bulgarian: “Амагер”
- Catalan: “Amager”
- Cebuano: “Amager”
- Chinese: “阿迈厄岛”
- Chinese: “阿邁厄島”
- Croatian: “Amager”
- Czech: “Amager”
- Danish: “Ama’r”
- Danish: “Amager land”
- Danish: “Amager”
- Danish: “Amagere”
- Danish: “Amagergenser”
- Danish: “Amagerkaner”
- Danish: “Amagerland”
- Danish: “Amar”
- Dutch: “Amager”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اماجير”
- Estonian: “Amager”
- Faroese: “Amager”
- Finnish: “Amager”
- French: “Amager”
- Galician: “Amager”
- Georgian: “ამაგერი”
- German: “Amager”
- Greek: “Άμαγκερ”
- Greek: “Άμεγια”
- Hebrew: “אמאגר”
- Hebrew: “קופנהגן/אמאגר”
- Hungarian: “Amager”
- Icelandic: “Amager”
- Icelandic: “Amakur”
- Icelandic: “Ámakur”
- Indonesian: “Amager”
- Italian: “Amager”
- Japanese: “アマー島”
- Japanese: “アマガル”
- Korean: “아마게르섬”
- Latin: “Amagria”
- Latvian: “Amagera”
- Lithuanian: “Amageris”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Amager”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Amager”
- Norwegian: “Amager”
- Polish: “Amager”
- Portuguese: “Amager”
- Russian: “Амагер”
- Serbian: “Amager”
- Serbian: “Амагер”
- Slovenian: “Amager”
- Spanish: “Amager”
- Swedish: “Amager”
- Telugu: “అమేజర్”
- Thai: “อาแมเยอร์”
- Ukrainian: “Амагер”
- Vietnamese: “Amager”
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