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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Hjart, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Hjart, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 8,260 residents
- Description: town in Denmark
- Postal code: 6760
Photo: Hubertus45, CC BY 2.5.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ribe Cathedral and Museum of the Vikings of Ribe.
Ribe Cathedral
Church
Photo: Ajepbah, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.
Ribe Cathedral or Our Lady Maria Cathedral is located in the ancient city of Ribe, on the west coast of southern Jutland, Denmark. It was founded in the Viking Age as the first Christian church in Denmark by Ansgar, a missionary monk from Hamburg, under permission of the pagan King Horik I.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kærbøl and Nørre Farup.
Nørre Farup
Hamlet
Photo: Hjart, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Nørre Farup is a village on the peninsula of Jutland. It is a part of Esbjerg Municipality in the Region of Southern Denmark. Nørre Farup is situated 3½ km northwest of Ribe.
Ribe
- Category: locality
- Location: Esbjerg Municipality, Region of Southern Denmark, Denmark, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
55.3284° or 55° 19′ 42″ northLongitude
8.7648° or 8° 45′ 53″ eastPopulation
8,260Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)United Nations Location Code
DK RIBOpen location code
9F7C8QH7+9WOpenStreetMap ID
node 597643755OpenStreetMap 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”
- Esperanto: “Ripen”
- Estonian: “Ribe”
- Faroese: “Ribe”
- Finnish: “Ribe”
- French: “Ribe”
- Galician: “Ribe”
- German: “Ribe”
- German: “Ripen”
- Greek: “Ρίμπε”
- Hebrew: “ריבה”
- Hungarian: “Ribe”
- Icelandic: “Ribe”
- Icelandic: “Rípar”
- Indonesian: “Ribe”
- Italian: “Ribe”
- Japanese: “リーベ”
- Korean: “리베”
- 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”
- Vietnamese: “Ribe”
- Western Frisian: “Ribe”
- Zulu: “i-Ribe”
- “Ribe”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Ribe”. Photo: Hjart, CC BY-SA 4.0.