Jelling
Jelling is a railway town in Denmark with a population of 4,038, located in Jelling Parish, approximately 10 km northwest of Vejle. The town lies 105 metres above sea level.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 3,360 residents
- Description: village in Denmark
- Postal code: 7300
Places of Interest
Highlights include Jelling stones and Kongernes Jelling.
Jelling stones
Monument
Photo: Rialfver, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Jelling stones are massive carved runestones from the 10th century, found at the town of Jelling in Denmark. The older of the two Jelling stones was raised by King Gorm the Old in memory of his wife Thyra.
Jelling
- Categories: town and locality
- Location: Vejle, Region of Southern Denmark, Denmark, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
55.753° or 55° 45′ 11″ northLongitude
9.4211° or 9° 25′ 16″ eastPopulation
3,360Elevation
110 metres (361 feet)United Nations Location Code
DK JELOpen location code
9F7FQC3C+5COpenStreetMap ID
node 8684396302OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Turkish—“Jelling” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Jelling”
- Azerbaijani: “Yellinq”
- Basque: “Jelling”
- Belarusian: “Елінг”
- Catalan: “Jelling”
- Cebuano: “Jelling”
- Chinese: “耶靈”
- Croatian: “Jelling”
- Czech: “Jelling”
- Danish: “Jelling”
- Dutch: “Jelling”
- Esperanto: “Jelling”
- Finnish: “Jelling”
- French: “Jelling”
- Galician: “Jelling”
- German: “Jelling”
- German: “Jellinge”
- Hebrew: “יילין”
- Hebrew: “ילין”
- Hungarian: “Jelling”
- Italian: “Jelling”
- Japanese: “イェリング”
- Korean: “옐링”
- Lithuanian: “Jelling”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Jelling Kommune”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Jelling”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jelling”
- Norwegian: “Jelling”
- Persian: “جلینگ”
- Persian: “یلینگ”
- Polish: “Jelling”
- Portuguese: “Jelling”
- Romanian: “Jelling”
- Russian: “Еллинг”
- Russian: “Йеллинг”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Jelling”
- Slovenian: “Jelling”
- Spanish: “Jelling”
- Swedish: “Gravhögarna”
- Swedish: “Jelling”
- Swedish: “Jellinge”
- Turkish: “Jelling”
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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 Wikipedia page “Jelling”. Photo: Ajepbah, CC BY-SA 3.0.