Jelling

Jelling is a railway town in with a population of 4,038, located in Jelling Parish, approximately 10 km northwest of . The town lies 105 metres above sea level.
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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.

Monument
The are massive carved runestones from the 10th century, found at the town of Jelling in . The older of the two was raised by King Gorm the Old in memory of his wife Thyra.

Jelling

Latitude
55.753° or 55° 45′ 11″ north
Longitude
9.4211° or 9° 25′ 16″ east
Population
3,360
Elevation
110 metres (361 feet)
United Nations Location Code
DK JEL
Open location code
9F7FQC3C+5C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 8684396302
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2619340
Wiki­data ID
Q835708
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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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