Götaland
Scania
Helsingborg Municipality

Helsingborg

Helsingborg is in the province of southern . Historic Helsingborg, with its many old buildings, is a scenic coastal city. The buildings are a blend of old-style stone-built churches and a 600-year-old medieval fortress in the city centre, and more modern commercial buildings.
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  • Type: City with 93,800 residents
  • Description: town and seat of Helsingborg Municipality, in Scania County, Sweden
  • Also known as: “Hälsingborg”
  • Neighbors:
Photo: Andrés Lindgren, CC BY 2.0.
Photo: Guillaume Baviere, CC BY 2.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kärnan and Dunker Culture House.

Photo: Ikiwaner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a medieval tower in Helsingborg, , in southern . It is the only part remaining of a larger fortress which, along with the fortress on the opposite bank of the , controlled the entranceway between the and the and further south the Baltic Sea.

Museum
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is a museum and art centre located in Helsingborg, Sweden. It is the of Helsingborg cultural heritage and its theme is to trace history from the ice age to the modern day.

Town hall
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is a town hall.

Helsingborg

Latitude
56.0442° or 56° 2′ 39″ north
Longitude
12.7037° or 12° 42′ 13″ east
Population
93,800
Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)
IATA airport code
AGH
United Nations Location Code
SE HEL
Open location code
9F8J2PV3+MF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 15412058
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2706767
Wiki­data ID
Q25411
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Helsingborg” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Helsingborg”
  • Albanian: “Helsingborg”
  • Arabic: “هلسينغبورغ”
  • Aragonese: “Helsingborg”
  • Armenian: “Հելսինգբորգ”
  • Balinese: “Helsingborg”
  • Basque: “Helsingborg”
  • Belarusian: “Гэльсынгборг”
  • Belarusian: “Хельсінгбарг”
  • Belarusian: “Хэльсынгборг”
  • Bengali: “হেলসিংবার্গ”
  • Breton: “Helsingborg”
  • Bulgarian: “Хелсингбори”
  • Catalan: “Helsingborg”
  • Cebuano: “Helsingborg (kapital sa munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Helsingborg”
  • Chinese: “Helsingborg”
  • Chinese: “希星堡”
  • Chinese: “赫尔辛堡”
  • Chinese: “赫爾辛堡”
  • Chuvash: “Хельсингборг”
  • Cornish: “Helsingborg”
  • Croatian: “Helsingborg”
  • Czech: “Helsingborg”
  • Danish: “Hälsingborg”
  • Danish: “Helsingborg”
  • Dutch: “Helsingborg”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هيلسينجبورج”
  • Esperanto: “Helsingborg”
  • Estonian: “Hälsingborg”
  • Estonian: “Helsingborg”
  • Faroese: “Helsingborg”
  • Finnish: “Hälsingborg”
  • Finnish: “Helsingborg”
  • French: “Helsimbourg”
  • French: “Helsingborg”
  • Galician: “Helsingborg”
  • Georgian: “ჰელსინგბორგი”
  • German: “Hälsingborg”
  • German: “Helsingborg”
  • Greek: “Χέλσινγκμποργκ”
  • Gujarati: “હેલ્સિંગબર્ગ”
  • Hebrew: “הלסינגבורג”
  • Hindi: “हेलसिंगबर्ग”
  • Hungarian: “Hälsingborg”
  • Hungarian: “Helsingborg”
  • Icelandic: “Helsingborg”
  • Icelandic: “Helsingjaborg”
  • Ido: “Helsingborg”
  • Indonesian: “Helsingborg”
  • Interlingue: “Helsingborg”
  • Irish: “Helsingborg”
  • Italian: “Hälsingborg”
  • Italian: “Helsingborg”
  • Japanese: “ヘルシングボリ”
  • Japanese: “ヘルシンボリ”
  • Kalaallisut: “Helsingborg”
  • Kannada: “ಹೆಲ್ಸಿನ್ಗ್ ಬೋರ್ಗ್”
  • Kazakh: “Хельсингборг”
  • Kölsch: “Hälsingborsch”
  • Kölsch: “Helsingborg”
  • Kölsch: “Helsingborsch”
  • Korean: “헬싱보리”
  • Ladin: “Helsingborg”
  • Latin: “Helsingoburgum”
  • Latvian: “Helsingborga”
  • Latvian: “Helsingborja”
  • Lithuanian: “Helsingborgas”
  • Low German: “Helsingborg”
  • Luxembourgish: “Helsingborg”
  • Macedonian: “Хелсингборг”
  • Malay: “Helsingborg”
  • Maori: “Helsingborg”
  • Marathi: “हेल्सिंगबर्ग”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Helsingborg”
  • Minangkabau: “Helsingborg”
  • Mongolian: “Хелсингборг”
  • Mongolian: “Хельсинборг”
  • Northern Frisian: “Helsingborg”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hälsingborg”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Helsingborg”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Herrevad Kloster”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Helsingborg”
  • Norwegian: “Helsingborg”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Helsingborg”
  • Ossetian: “Хельсинборг”
  • Ossetian: “Хельсингборг”
  • Persian: “هلسینگبورگ”
  • Persian: “هلسینگبوری”
  • Polish: “Helsingborg”
  • Portuguese: “Helsingborg”
  • Romanian: “Helsingborg”
  • Russian: “Helsingborg”
  • Russian: “Хельсинборг”
  • Russian: “Хельсингборг”
  • Scots: “Helsingborg”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Helsingborg”
  • Serbian: “Helsingborg”
  • Serbian: “Хелсинборг”
  • Serbian: “Хелсинборј”
  • Serbian: “Хелсингборг”
  • Serbian: “Хелсингборј”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Helsingborg”
  • Silesian: “Helsingborg”
  • Sinhala: “හෙල්සින්බෝර්ග්”
  • Slovak: “Helsingborg”
  • Slovenian: “Helsingborg”
  • Spanish: “Helsingborg”
  • Swahili: “Helsingborg”
  • Swedish: “Hälsingborg” (historical)
  • Swedish: “Helsingborg”
  • Tamil: “ஹெல்சிங்போர்க்”
  • Tatar: “Һелсиңборг”
  • Telugu: “హెల్సింగ్ బోర్గ్”
  • Thai: “เฮลซิงบอรย์”
  • Thai: “เฮ็ลซิงบอร์ย”
  • Turkish: “Helsingborg”
  • Ukrainian: “Гельсінборг”
  • Ukrainian: “Гельсінгборг”
  • Ukrainian: “Хельсінгборг”
  • Urdu: “ہیلسنگبورگ”
  • Urdu: “ہیلسنگبوری”
  • Venetian: “Helsingborg”
  • Vietnamese: “Helsingborg”
  • Volapük: “Helsingborg”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Helsingborg”
  • Welsh: “Helsingborg”
  • Western Frisian: “Helsingborg”
  • Western Panjabi: “ہلسنگبورگ”
  • Wu Chinese: “赫尔辛堡”
  • Yue Chinese: “希星堡”

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