Fanø
Fanø is the northernmost island in the Wadden Sea National Park at the west coast of South Jutland in Denmark. The main attraction here is the white sand beach, which is also a popular playground for different types of sports, such as kite flying, surfing and buggies.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: island with 3,290 residents
- Description: Danish island
- Also known as: “563”, “Fano Kommune”, “Fanø Kommune”, and “Fanoe”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Nordby Church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nordby.
Nordby
Village
Photo: Hubertus45, CC BY 2.5.
Nordby is a Danish town, seat of the Fanø Municipality, in the Region of Southern Denmark. The population was 2,629 as of 1 January 2025.
Fanø
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Satellite Map
Discover Fanø from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Asturian to Western Frisian—“Fanø” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Fanø”
- Catalan: “Fanø”
- Cebuano: “Fanø (pulo sa Dinamarka)”
- Cebuano: “Fanø”
- Chinese: “Fanø Chū-tī-chhī”
- Chinese: “凡岛”
- Chinese: “凡島”
- Croatian: “Fanø (općina)”
- Danish: “Fanø”
- Dutch: “Fano”
- Dutch: “Fanø”
- French: “Fanø”
- Georgian: “ფანე”
- German: “Fanö”
- German: “Fanø”
- German: “Nordby”
- Greek: “Φάνε”
- Greek: “Φάνο”
- Hungarian: “Fanø”
- Indonesian: “Fanø”
- Italian: “Fanø”
- Japanese: “ファーン”
- Japanese: “ファノ島”
- Korean: “파뇌섬”
- Lithuanian: “Fanė”
- Low German: “Fanoog”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Fanø Chū-tī-chhī”
- Northern Frisian: “Fanø Komuun”
- Northern Frisian: “Fanø”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fanø”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Fanø”
- Norwegian: “Fanø”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Fanø”
- Polish: “Fanø”
- Portuguese: “Fanø”
- Russian: “Фане”
- Russian: “Фанё”
- Spanish: “Fanø”
- Swedish: “Fanø”
- Thai: “ฟาเนอ”
- Turkish: “Fanø”
- Ukrainian: “Фаньо”
- Vietnamese: “Fano”
- Vietnamese: “Fanø”
- Vietnamese: “Fanoe”
- Western Frisian: “Faaneach”
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About Mapcarta. 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 “Fanø”. Photo: Ragnar1904, CC BY-SA 4.0.