Elsinore
Elsinore or Helsingør is a city of just under 50,000 residents, in the north eastern corner of the island of Zealand in Denmark. It is the closest city to Sweden, with frequent ferry connections to its twin city across the strait; Helsingborg.
- Type: Town with 47,400 residents
- Description: city in Denmark
- Also known as: “Elsynor”, “Elzeneur”, “Elzynor”, “Hälsingöhr”, “Hälsingör”, “Helsingoer”, “Helsingőr”, “Helsingør”, “Helsingør Komuun”, “Helsingoras”, “Χέλσινγκορ”, “Χελσινγκούρ”, “Гельсинґьор”, “Елсинор”, “Хелсингор”, “Хельсингер”, “Хельсингор”, “Эльсинор”, “헬싱괴르”, and “ヘルシンオア”
- Postal code: 3000
Places of Interest
Highlights: Elsinore Station and St. Olaf’s Church, Helsingør.
St. Olaf’s Church, Helsingør
Church
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kingo Houses and Snekkersten.
Kingo Houses
Neighborhood
Snekkersten
Village
Elsinore
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Capital Region, Denmark, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
56.0349° or 56° 2′ 6″ north
Longitude
12.613° or 12° 36′ 47″ east
Population
47,400
Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)
UN/LOCODE
DK HLS
Open location code
9F8J2JM7+W6
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Zeeuws—“Elsinore” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Helsingør”
- Arabic: “هيليسينكور”
- Aragonese: “Helsingør”
- Armenian: “Էլսիներ”
- Armenian: “Հելսինգյոր”
- Asturian: “Helsingør”
- Basque: “Helsingør”
- Belarusian: “Гэльсынгёр”
- Belarusian: “Хельсінгёр”
- Catalan: “Elsinor”
- Catalan: “Helsingør”
- Cebuano: “Helsingør (kapital sa munisipyo sa Dinamarka)”
- Cebuano: “Helsingør”
- Central Kurdish: “ھێلسینگۆر”
- Chinese: “赫爾辛格”
- Croatian: “Helsingør”
- Czech: “Helsingør”
- Danish: “Helsingør”
- Dimli (individual language): “Helsingør”
- Dutch: “Helsingør”
- Egyptian Arabic: “هيليسينكور”
- Esperanto: “Helsingør”
- Estonian: “Helsingør”
- Faroese: “Helsingør”
- Finnish: “Helsingør”
- French: “Elseneur”
- Galician: “Helsingør”
- Georgian: “ჰელსინგერი”
- German: “Helsingör”
- German: “Helsingør”
- Greek: “Χελσινγκέρ”
- Hebrew: “אלסינור”
- Hungarian: “Helsingør”
- Icelandic: “Helsingjaeyri”
- Indonesian: “Helsingør”
- Interlingua: “Elsinor”
- Irish: “Helsingør”
- Italian: “Elsinore”
- Italian: “Helsingør”
- Japanese: “ヘルシンゲル”
- Javanese: “Helsingør”
- Kalaallisut: “Helsingør”
- Kashubian: “Helsingør”
- Kölsch: “Helsingör”
- Korean: “헬싱외르”
- Latin: “Helsingora”
- Latvian: “Helsingēra”
- Lithuanian: “Helsingioras”
- Lombard: “Elsinör”
- Luxembourgish: “Helsingør”
- Macedonian: “Хелсингер”
- Malay: “Helsingør”
- Maltese: “Helsingør”
- Moksha: “Гэльсингёр”
- Northern Frisian: “Helsingør”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Helsingør”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Helsingør”
- Norwegian: “Helsingør”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Helsingør”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Healsungēar”
- Ossetian: “Хельсингёр”
- Persian: “هلسینگور”
- Polish: “Helsingør”
- Portuguese: “Helsingor”
- Romanian: “Helsingør”
- Russian: “Хельсингёр”
- Scots: “Helsingør”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Helsingør”
- Serbian: “Хелсингер”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Helsingør”
- Slovenian: “Helsingør”
- Spanish: “Elsinor”
- Swahili: “Helsingør”
- Swedish: “Helsingör”
- Tatar: “Һелсиңөр”
- Thai: “เฮลซิงเงอร์”
- Turkish: “Helsingör”
- Turkish: “Helsingør”
- Ukrainian: “Гельсінгер”
- Urdu: “ہیلسنگر”
- Vietnamese: “Helsingør”
- Volapük: “Helsingør”
- Waray (Philippines): “Helsingør”
- Welsh: “Helsingør”
- Western Frisian: “Helsingør”
- Wu Chinese: “赫尔辛格”
- Yue Chinese: “希星加”
- Yue Chinese: “希星約”
- Zeeuws: “Helsingør”
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