Hirtshals
Hirtshals is a town and seaport on the coast of Skagerrak on the island of Vendsyssel-Thy at the top of the Jutland peninsula in northern Denmark, Europe.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: DXR, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: DXR, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Village with 5,860 residents
- Description: human settlement in Denmark
- Also known as: “Lilleheden Hornsnæs”
- Postal code: 9850
Places of Interest
Highlights include Nordsøen Oceanarium and Hirtshals railway station.
Nordsøen Oceanarium
Public aquarium
Photo: Tsca, Public domain.
Nordsøen Oceanarium is a public aquarium and museum that opened in 1998 on the shores of the North Sea in Hirtshals, north Jutland, Denmark. Their main tank, which holds 4,500,000 litres, is the largest in Northern Europe, but the Oceanarium also has several smaller habitat aquariums and an exhibit with seals.
Hirtshals railway station
Railway station
Hirtshals railway station is the main railway station serving the town of Hirtshals in Vendsyssel, Denmark. The station is the northern terminus of the Hirtshalsbanen railway line from Hjørring to Hirtshals.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Horne.
Horne
Village
Photo: Dphreak, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Horne is a village in Hjørring Municipality in North Jutland Region, Denmark. As of 1 January 2025, it has the population of 661. It is located in the north-western part of the Vendsyssel district about 5 km south of the town of Hirtshals. Horne is situated 3½ km south of Hirtshals.
Hirtshals
- Categories: town and locality
- Location: Hjørring, North Jutland, Jutland, Denmark, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
57.5908° or 57° 35′ 27″ northLongitude
9.965° or 9° 57′ 54″ eastPopulation
5,860Elevation
16 metres (52 feet)IATA airport code
XAJUnited Nations Location Code
DK HIROpen location code
9F9FHXR7+8XOpenStreetMap ID
node 2221954471OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2620279Wikidata ID
Q846052
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Ukrainian—“Hirtshals” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Hirtshals”
- Bulgarian: “Хирцхалс”
- Catalan: “Hirtshals”
- Cebuano: “Hirtshals”
- Chinese: “希茨海尔斯”
- Chinese: “希茨海爾斯”
- Danish: “Hirtshals”
- Dutch: “Hirtshals”
- Faroese: “Hirtshals”
- Finnish: “Hirtshals”
- French: “Hirtshals”
- German: “Hirtshals”
- Hebrew: “הירטסלס”
- Hungarian: “Hirtshals”
- Icelandic: “Hirtshals”
- Italian: “Hirtshals”
- Japanese: “ヒートシャルズ”
- Japanese: “ヒァツハルス”
- Japanese: “ヒアツハルス”
- Japanese: “ヒャツハルス”
- Kalaallisut: “Hirtshals”
- Korean: “히르스트할스”
- Moksha: “Гиртсгальс”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hirtshals”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hirtshals”
- Norwegian: “Hirtshals”
- Persian: “هیرتشال”
- Polish: “Hirtshals”
- Portuguese: “Hirtshals”
- Romanian: “Hirtshals”
- Russian: “Хиртсхалс”
- Russian: “Хиртсхальс”
- Slovenian: “Hirtshals”
- Spanish: “Hirtshals”
- Swedish: “Hirshals”
- Swedish: “Hirtshals”
- Turkish: “Hirtshals”
- Ukrainian: “Гіртсгальс”
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