Odense
Odense is the largest city on the island of Funen in Denmark. 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Vitklöver, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Saint Canute’s Cathedral and Odense station.
Saint Canute’s Cathedral
Church
St. Canute's Cathedral, also known as Odense Cathedral, is named after the Danish king Canute the Saint, otherwise Canute IV. It is a fine example of Brick Gothic architecture.
Odense station
Railway station
Photo: Dannebrog Spy, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Odense Station is the main railway station serving the city of Odense, Denmark. 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.
The Danish Railway Museum
Museum
Photo: Kaare, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Danish Railway Museum is the national railway museum of Denmark, 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.
Vollsmose
Suburb
Photo: Moeng, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Vollsmose is a suburb of Odense, the third-largest city in Denmark. Approximately 3 km northeast of central Odense, towards Odense Fjord. It has around 10.000 inhabitants and is characterised by a modern housing development project from the 1970s.
Odense
- Type: City with 178,000 residents
- Description: main city of the island of Funen, Denmark
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Odense Municipality, Region of Southern Denmark, Funen, Denmark, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.3997° or 55° 23′ 59″ northLongitude
10.3852° or 10° 23′ 7″ eastPopulation
178,000Elevation
17 metres (56 feet)Named after
OdinIATA airport code
ODEUnited Nations Location Code
DK ODEOpen location code
9F7G99XP+V3OpenStreetMap ID
node 26559274OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Odense” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Odense”
- Albanian: “Odense”
- Arabic: “أودنسة”
- Arabic: “أودنسه”
- Arabic: “اودنسة”
- Arabic: “اودنسه”
- Arabic: “نيكولاس بيندتنر”
- Aragonese: “Odense”
- Armenian: “Օդենսե”
- Asturian: “Odense”
- Azerbaijani: “Odens”
- Azerbaijani: “Odense”
- Basque: “Odense”
- Belarusian: “Одэнсе”
- Belarusian: “Одэнсэ”
- Bengali: “ওদেন্স”
- Bengali: “ওদেন্সা”
- Bosnian: “Odense”
- Breton: “Odense”
- Bulgarian: “Одензе”
- Bulgarian: “Оденсе”
- Catalan: “Odense”
- Cebuano: “Odense (kapital sa munisipyo sa Dinamarka)”
- Cebuano: “Odense”
- Chechen: “Оденсе”
- Chinese: “奧丹斯”
- 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”
- Esperanto: “Odense”
- Estonian: “Odense”
- Faroese: “Odense”
- Finnish: “Odense”
- French: “Odense”
- French: “Odensée”
- 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: “オーゼンセ”
- Japanese: “オーデンセ”
- Japanese: “オデンセ”
- Kalaallisut: “Odense”
- Kannada: “ಒಡೆನ್ಸ್”
- Kashubian: “Odense”
- Kazakh: “Оденсе”
- Kirghiz: “Оденсе”
- Korean: “오덴세”
- Latin: “Othania”
- Latvian: “Odense”
- Lithuanian: “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: “ادنس”
- Persian: “ادنسه”
- Persian: “اودنس”
- Piemontese: “Odensa”
- Piemontese: “Odense”
- Polish: “Odense”
- Portuguese: “Odense”
- Romanian: “Odense”
- Russia Buriat: “Оденсе”
- Russian: “Одензе”
- Russian: “Оденсе”
- Santali: “ᱳᱰᱮᱱᱥ”
- Saterfriesisch: “Odense”
- Scots: “Odense”
- Serbian: “Одензе”
- Serbian: “Оденс”
- 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”
- “Odense”
- “Udénse”
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