Ribe
Ribe is a small town in western South Jutland, bordering the Wadden Sea National Park, Denmark. It is the oldest town in Denmark, with around 100 old listed houses, far more than anywhere else in Denmark outside of Copenhagen.
- Type: Town with 8,260 residents
- Description: town in Denmark
- Postal code: 6760
Places of Interest
Highlights: Ribe Cathedral and Museum of the Vikings of Ribe.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kærbøl and Nørre Farup.
Nørre Farup
Hamlet
Ribe
- Category: locality
- Location: Esbjerg Municipality, Region South Denmark, Denmark, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
55.3284° or 55° 19′ 42″ north
Longitude
8.7648° or 8° 45′ 53″ east
Population
8,260
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
UN/LOCODE
DK RIB
Open location code
9F7C8QH7+9W
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Aragonese to Zulu—“Ribe” goes by many names.
- Aragonese: “Ribe”
- Armenian: “Ռիբե”
- Asturian: “Ribe”
- Basque: “Ribe”
- Belarusian: “Рыбэ”
- Catalan: “Ribe”
- Cebuano: “Ribe”
- Chinese: “里伯”
- Croatian: “Ribe”
- Czech: “Ribe”
- Danish: “Ribe”
- Dutch: “Ribe”
- Esperanto: “Ribe”
- Estonian: “Ribe”
- Faroese: “Ribe”
- Finnish: “Ribe”
- French: “Ribe”
- Galician: “Ribe”
- German: “Ribe”
- German: “Ripen”
- Greek: “Ρίμπε”
- Hebrew: “ריבה”
- Hungarian: “Ribe”
- Icelandic: “Rípar”
- Indonesian: “Ribe”
- Italian: “Ribe”
- Japanese: “リーベ”
- Korean: “리베”
- Lithuanian: “Ribė”
- Macedonian: “Рибе”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ribe”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ribe”
- Norwegian: “Ribe”
- Persian: “ریبه”
- Polish: “Ribe”
- Portuguese: “Ribe”
- Romanian: “Ribe”
- Russian: “Рибе”
- Scots: “Ribe”
- Serbian: “Ribe”
- Serbian: “Рибе”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ribe”
- Slovak: “Ribe”
- Slovenian: “Ribe, Danska”
- Slovenian: “Ribe”
- Spanish: “Ribe”
- Swedish: “Ribe”
- Tatar: “Рибе”
- Turkish: “Ribe”
- Ukrainian: “Рібе”
- Urdu: “ریبے”
- Vietnamese: “Ribe”
- Western Frisian: “Ribe”
- Zeeuws: “Ribe”
- Zulu: “i-Ribe”
- “Ribe”
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Places to explore: Galgenmark and Ribe Søndermark.
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