Denmark
Region of Southern Denmark
Esbjerg Municipality

Esbjerg

Esbjerg is a city in . The town was once Denmark's biggest fishing harbour, and the harbour is still an economic driving force in the town.
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  • Type: City with 72,400 residents
  • Description: town in Denmark
  • Also known as: “Esbjærg”
  • Postal code: 6700

Places of Interest

Highlights include Esbjerg station and Lightship Museum.

Railway station
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is the main railway station in the city of Esbjerg in southwest , . It is located in central Esbjerg, immediately adjacent to the Esbjerg bus station.

Museum
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The in the harbour of Esbjerg in southern Denmark consists of a private museum open to the public on board the Horns Rev lightship. Dating from 1912, the Horns Rev, also known as Motorfyrskibet Nr.

Museum
is an iconic water tower in Esbjerg in southwest , Denmark. Completed in 1897, it was designed by Christian Hjerrild Clausen who had been inspired by 's Nassauer Haus.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Jerne and Nordby.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Village
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is a town, seat of the Fanø Municipality, in the . The population was 2,629 as of 1 January 2025.

Esbjerg

Latitude
55.4665° or 55° 27′ 59″ north
Longitude
8.4521° or 8° 27′ 8″ east
Population
72,400
Elevation
17 metres (56 feet)
IATA airport code
EBJ
United Nations Location Code
DK EBJ
Open location code
9F7CFF82+HR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 21040360
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2622447
Wiki­data ID
Q26234
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Esbjerg” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “إسبيرغ”
  • Arabic: “إيسبيرغ”
  • Aragonese: “Esbjerg”
  • Armenian: “Էսբյերգ”
  • Asturian: “Esbjerg”
  • Azerbaijani: “Esbyerq”
  • Basque: “Esbjerg”
  • Belarusian: “Эсб’ерг”
  • Bengali: “এসবিয়ার্গ”
  • Breton: “Esbjerg”
  • Bulgarian: “Есбер”
  • Catalan: “Esbjerg”
  • Cebuano: “Esbjerg”
  • Chinese: “埃斯比約”
  • Chinese: “埃斯比约”
  • Croatian: “Esbjerg”
  • Czech: “Esbjerg”
  • Danish: “Esbjerg”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Esbjerg”
  • Dutch: “Esbjerg (stad)”
  • Dutch: “Esbjerg”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ايسبيرج”
  • Esperanto: “Esbjerg”
  • Estonian: “Esbjerg”
  • Faroese: “Esbjerg kommuna”
  • Faroese: “Esbjerg”
  • Finnish: “Ejsberg”
  • Finnish: “Esbjerg”
  • French: “Esbeur”
  • French: “Esbjerg”
  • Georgian: “ესბიერი”
  • German: “Esberg”
  • German: “Esbjerg”
  • German: “Hjerting”
  • Greek: “Έσμπιεργκ”
  • Gujarati: “એસ્બજર્ગ”
  • Hebrew: “אסביירג”
  • Hindi: “एसबियर्ग”
  • Hungarian: “Esbjerg”
  • Icelandic: “Esbjerg”
  • Ido: “Esbjerg”
  • Indonesian: “Esbjerg”
  • Indonesian: “Munisipalitas Esbjerg”
  • Interlingue: “Esbjerg”
  • Irish: “Esbjerg”
  • Italian: “Esbjerg”
  • Japanese: “エスビャウ”
  • Kalaallisut: “Esbjerg”
  • Kannada: “ಎಸ್ಬರ್ಗ್”
  • Kashubian: “Esbjerg”
  • Korean: “에스비에르”
  • Latvian: “Esbjerg”
  • Latvian: “Esbjerga”
  • Lithuanian: “Esbjergas”
  • Lombard: “Esbjerg”
  • Low German: “Esbjerg”
  • Macedonian: “Есбјерг”
  • Malay: “Esbjerg”
  • Maori: “Esbjerg”
  • Marathi: “एस्‍बजर्ग”
  • Moksha: “Эсбьерг”
  • Northern Frisian: “Esbjerg”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Esbjerg”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Esbjerg”
  • Norwegian: “Esbjerg”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Esbjerg”
  • Ossetian: “Эсбьерг”
  • Persian: “اسبیرگ”
  • Polish: “Esbjerg”
  • Portuguese: “Esbjerg”
  • Romanian: “Esbjerg”
  • Russian: “Эсберг”
  • Russian: “Эсбьерг”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Esbjerg”
  • Scots: “Esbjerg”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Esbjerg”
  • Serbian: “Есбјерг”
  • Silesian: “Esbjerg”
  • Sinhala: “එස්බර්ග්”
  • Slovak: “Esbjerg”
  • Slovenian: “Esbjerg”
  • Spanish: “Esbjerg”
  • Swahili: “Esbjerg”
  • Swedish: “Danmarks Amerika”
  • Swedish: “Esbjerg”
  • Swedish: “Vor Frelsers Kirke”
  • Tamil: “எஸ்பேர்க்”
  • Tatar: “Эсбьерг”
  • Telugu: “ఎస్బ్జేర్గ్”
  • Thai: “Esbjerg”
  • Thai: “เอสบีเยร์”
  • Turkish: “Esbjerg”
  • Ukrainian: “Есб’єрг”
  • Ukrainian: “Есб’єрґ”
  • Ukrainian: “Есбєрг”
  • Urdu: “ایسجبرگ”
  • Vietnamese: “Esbjerg”
  • Volapük: “Esbjerg”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Esbjerg”
  • Welsh: “Esbjerg”
  • Western Frisian: “Esbjerg”
  • Western Panjabi: “اسبجرگ”
  • Western Panjabi: “ایسبرگ”
  • Wu Chinese: “埃斯比约”
  • Yue Chinese: “埃斯比約”
  • “Esbjerg”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Esbjerg”. Photo: Taxiarchos228, FAL.