Odense

Odense is the largest city on the island of in . As Denmark's third-largest city, it offers the traveller a mixture of an exciting vibrant night-life, beautiful street-scapes, great shopping opportunities & a rich cultural heritage.
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  • Type: City with 178,000 residents
  • Description: main city of the island of Funen, Denmark
  • Also known as: “Odensée”, “Оденс”, “Одэнсе”, “أودنسة”, “ادنس”, “اودنس”, “اودنسة”, “اودنسه”, “نيكولاس بيندتنر”, “オーゼンセ”, and “オデンセ”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Saint Canute’s Cathedral and Odense station.

Church
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St. Canute's Cathedral, also known as Odense Cathedral, is named after the king Canute the Saint, otherwise Canute IV. It is a fine example of Brick Gothic architecture.

Railway station
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is the main railway station serving the city of Odense, . It is located in central Odense, on the northern edge of the historic town centre, and lies immediately adjacent to the Odense bus station and a stop on the Odense Tramway.

Museum
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is the national railway museum of , located in the city of Odense. Established in 1975, it is situated in a former engine shed adjacent to the city's main railway station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Næsby and Hunderup.

Suburb
is a western central neighbourhood of Odense, in , .

Suburb
is a central-southern neighbourhood of Odense, in , .

Suburb
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is a suburb of Odense, the third-largest city in . Approximately 3 km northeast of central Odense, towards . It has around 10.000 inhabitants and is characterised by a modern housing development project from the 1970s.

Odense

Latitude
55.3997° or 55° 23′ 59″ north
Longitude
10.3852° or 10° 23′ 7″ east
Population
178,000
Elevation
17 metres (56 feet)
Named after
Odin
IATA airport code
ODE
United Nations Location Code
DK ODE
Open location code
9F7G99XP+V3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26559274
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2615876
Wiki­data ID
Q25331
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Odense” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Odense”
  • Albanian: “Odense”
  • Arabic: “أودنسه”
  • Aragonese: “Odense”
  • Armenian: “Օդենսե”
  • Asturian: “Odense”
  • Azerbaijani: “Odens”
  • Azerbaijani: “Odense”
  • Basque: “Odense”
  • Belarusian: “Одэнсэ”
  • Bengali: “ওদেন্স”
  • Bengali: “ওদেন্সা”
  • Bosnian: “Odense”
  • Breton: “Odense”
  • Bulgarian: “Оденсе”
  • Catalan: “Odense”
  • Cebuano: “Odense (kapital sa munisipyo sa Dinamarka)”
  • Cebuano: “Odense”
  • Chechen: “Оденсе”
  • Chinese: “欧登塞”
  • Chinese: “歐登塞”
  • Corsican: “Odense”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Odense”
  • Croatian: “Odense”
  • Czech: “Odense”
  • Danish: “Odense”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Odense”
  • Dutch: “Odense”
  • Emilian: “Udénse”
  • Esperanto: “Odense”
  • Estonian: “Odense”
  • Faroese: “Odense”
  • Finnish: “Odense”
  • French: “Odense”
  • Galician: “Odense”
  • Georgian: “ოდენსე”
  • German: “Odense”
  • German: “Ottensee”
  • Greek: “Οντένσε”
  • Greek: “Όντενσε”
  • Gujarati: “ઓડેન્સ”
  • Hausa: “Odense”
  • Hebrew: “אודנזה”
  • Hebrew: “אודנסה”
  • Hindi: “ओडिन्से”
  • Hungarian: “Odense”
  • Icelandic: “Óðinsvé”
  • Ido: “Odense”
  • Indonesian: “Odense”
  • Interlingua: “Odense”
  • Interlingue: “Odense”
  • Irish: “Odense”
  • Italian: “Odense”
  • Japanese: “オーデンセ”
  • Kalaallisut: “Odense”
  • Kannada: “ಒಡೆನ್ಸ್”
  • Kashubian: “Odense”
  • Kazakh: “Оденсе”
  • Kirghiz: “Оденсе”
  • Korean: “오덴세”
  • Latin: “Othania”
  • Latvian: “Odense”
  • Lithuanian: “Odensė”
  • Lombard: “Odense”
  • Low German: “Odense”
  • Luxembourgish: “Odense”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Odense”
  • Macedonian: “Одензе”
  • Macedonian: “Оденсе”
  • Malagasy: “Odense”
  • Malay: “Odense”
  • Maltese: “Odense”
  • Maori: “Odense”
  • Marathi: “ओडिन्से”
  • Moksha: “Одэнсэ”
  • Northern Frisian: “Odense”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Odense”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Odense”
  • Norwegian: “Odense”
  • Novial: “Odense”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Odense”
  • Ossetian: “Оденсе”
  • Persian: “ادنسه”
  • Piemontese: “Odensa”
  • Polish: “Odense”
  • Portuguese: “Odense”
  • Romanian: “Odense”
  • Russia Buriat: “Оденсе”
  • Russian: “Оденсе”
  • Santali: “ᱳᱰᱮᱱᱥ”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Odense”
  • Scots: “Odense”
  • Serbian: “Оденсе”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Odense”
  • Silesian: “Odense”
  • Sinhala: “ඔඩෙන්ස්”
  • Slovak: “Odense”
  • Slovenian: “Odense”
  • Somali: “Odense”
  • Spanish: “Odense”
  • Swahili: “Odense”
  • Swedish: “Odense”
  • Tajik: “Оденсе”
  • Tamil: “ஒடென்ஸீ”
  • Tatar: “Оденсе”
  • Telugu: “ఒడెన్స్”
  • Thai: “โอเดนเซ”
  • Turkish: “Odense”
  • Ukrainian: “Оденсе”
  • Urdu: “اودنسے”
  • Urdu: “اوڈنس”
  • Uzbek: “Odense”
  • Venetian: “Odense”
  • Veps: “Odense”
  • Vietnamese: “Odense”
  • Volapük: “Odense”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Odense”
  • Welsh: “Odense”
  • Western Frisian: “Odense”
  • Western Panjabi: “اوڈینس”
  • Wu Chinese: “欧登塞”
  • Yue Chinese: “奧丹斯”
  • Zeeuws: “Odense”
  • “Odense”

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