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Region Zealand
Roskilde Municipality

Roskilde

Roskilde is in , , 35 km west of . Roskilde is an ancient city dating from the Viking age. The most important historical sights are the Viking Museum and Roskilde Cathedral, World Heritage site.
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  • Type: City with 50,800 residents
  • Description: city in Denmark
  • Also known as: “Roeskilde”
  • Postal code: 4000

Places of Interest

Highlights include Roskilde Cathedral and Viking Ship Museum.

Church
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, in the city of Roskilde on the island of Zealand in eastern , is a cathedral of the Lutheran Church of Denmark. The cathedral is one of the most important churches in Denmark, and the official royal burial church of the Danish monarchs.

Museum
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The in Roskilde is 's national ship museum for ships of the prehistoric and medieval period. The main focus of the museum is a permanent exhibition of the Skuldelev ships, five original Viking ships excavated nearby in 1962.

Railway station
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Roskilde Station is the principal railway station serving the city of Roskilde on the island of , . It is located in central Roskilde, on the southeastern edge of the historic town centre, and lies immediately adjacent to the Roskilde bus station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sankt Jørgensbjerg and Musicon.

Neighborhood
is a district of Roskilde on the Danish island of . Initially a fishing village in its own right with a history dating to the Viking Age, it became part of Roskilde in 1938. Today it has become the most desirable district in the city.

Suburb
is a district of the city of Roskilde on the Danish island of . It is being developed south of in an area of 250,000 m2 where a cement factory once stood. is developing a new district centred on creative cultural associations and institutions.

Suburb
is a largely residential area in the municipality of in and is contiguous with Roskilde. The population in the parish is around 14,000.

Roskilde

Latitude
55.6433° or 55° 38′ 36″ north
Longitude
12.0819° or 12° 4′ 55″ east
Population
50,800
Elevation
41 metres (135 feet)
IATA airport code
RKE
United Nations Location Code
DK RKE
Open location code
9F7JJ3VJ+8Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 21040334
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2614481
Wiki­data ID
Q26563
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Roskilde” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Roskilde”
  • Arabic: “روسكيلدا”
  • Aragonese: “Roskilde”
  • Armenian: “Ռոսկիլդե”
  • Armenian: “Ռոսկիլե”
  • Asturian: “Roskilde”
  • Azerbaijani: “Roskille”
  • Basque: “Roskilde”
  • Belarusian: “Роскіле”
  • Breton: “Roskilde”
  • Bulgarian: “Роскиле”
  • Catalan: “Roskilde”
  • Cebuano: “Roskilde (kapital sa munisipyo sa Dinamarka)”
  • Cebuano: “Roskilde”
  • Chinese: “罗斯基勒”
  • Chinese: “羅斯基勒”
  • Chuvash: “Роскильде”
  • Czech: “Roskilde”
  • Danish: “Roskilde”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Roskilde”
  • Dutch: “Roskilde”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “روسكيلدا”
  • Esperanto: “Roskilde”
  • Estonian: “Roskilde”
  • Extremaduran: “Roskilde”
  • Faroese: “Roskilde”
  • Finnish: “Roskilde”
  • French: “Roskilde”
  • Galician: “Roskilde”
  • Georgian: “როსკილე”
  • German: “Roeskilde”
  • German: “Roskilde”
  • Greek: “Ρόσκιλε”
  • Greek: “Ροσκίλντε”
  • Hebrew: “רוסקילד”
  • Hebrew: “רוסקילדה”
  • Hungarian: “Roskilde”
  • Icelandic: “Hróarskelda”
  • Icelandic: “Roskilde”
  • Ido: “Roskilde”
  • Indonesian: “Roskilde”
  • Interlingua: “Roskilde”
  • Irish: “Roskilde”
  • Italian: “Roskilde”
  • Japanese: “ロスキルデ”
  • Japanese: “ロスキレ”
  • Kalaallisut: “Roskilde”
  • Kashubian: “Roskilde”
  • Korean: “로스킬데”
  • Korean: “로스킬레”
  • Latin: “Roschildia”
  • Latin: “Roskilde”
  • Latin: “Roskildia”
  • Latvian: “Roskilde”
  • Lithuanian: “Roskilde”
  • Lithuanian: “Roskildė”
  • Lombard: “Roskilde”
  • Macedonian: “Роскилд”
  • Macedonian: “Роскилде”
  • Malay: “Roskilde”
  • Maori: “Roskilde”
  • Northern Frisian: “Roskilde Komuun”
  • Northern Frisian: “Roskilde”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Roskilde”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Roskilde”
  • Norwegian: “Roskilde”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Roskilde”
  • Ossetian: “Роскилле”
  • Persian: “راسکیله”
  • Persian: “روسکیلد”
  • Polish: “Roskilde”
  • Portuguese: “Roskilde”
  • Romanian: “Roskilde”
  • Russian: “Рёскильде”
  • Russian: “Роскилле”
  • Russian: “Роскильде”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Roskilde”
  • Scots: “Roskilde”
  • Serbian: “Роскилде”
  • Slovak: “Roskilde”
  • Slovenian: “Roeskilde”
  • Slovenian: “Roskilde”
  • Spanish: “Roskilde”
  • Swahili: “Roskilde”
  • Swedish: “Roskilde”
  • Tatar: “Роскилле”
  • Thai: “รอสกิลด์”
  • Turkish: “Roeskilde”
  • Turkish: “Roskilde”
  • Ukrainian: “Роскілле”
  • Urdu: “راسکیلے”
  • Vietnamese: “Roskilde”
  • Volapük: “Roskilde”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Roskilde”
  • Welsh: “Roskilde”
  • Western Frisian: “Roskilde”
  • Wu Chinese: “罗斯基勒”
  • Yue Chinese: “羅斯基勒”
  • “Roskilde”

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